The way that I came to trial practice is I think, twofold, one is accident, perhaps, where my father was a trial lawyer and I loved being in court. I hasten to say that the last thing I suggest to clients is litigation because it is not a fun process. And it’s capricious, you never know how it’s going to go. We have a very great success rate and we think that comes from an approach that is a little different perhaps than you see on Perry Mason, which is that we simply try to teach the jury. And if we have the facts and the law on our side and have worked it in a way that makes sense, we try to teach the jury rather than perhaps pound on the table as sometimes clients think that would be appropriate. But jurors are pretty smart, we love jurors, and so the approach that we take is one of being incredibly knowledgeable about the facts so that when we go to trial we can teach the jury what happened and hopefully, they’re going to understand what happened and they’ll be in favor of our client and the result will be an excellent result for the client.

In addition to a straightforward legal background that is law school and starting on Wall Street and then with a small firm in Boston and then spreading out on my own, I did spend seven years as a venture capitalist and a management consultant so I’m pretty conversant with the business arena. In my time of, you know, as a family man I’ve been an elected official on the planning board in Marblehead, Mass and I’ve sought to contribute in the town where I live now in Concord, Mass.

Outside of practicing law, I’ve done lots of things but right now I suppose my focus is on skiing. I try to be active. I taught tennis and play tennis and hockey in college and I’ve maintained a real love of the outdoors. I use to ice climb and rock climb so I try to get out there, but I do ski a lot right now and I enjoy it a great deal. And it means that I can get outside in the winter in these New England winters even though some folks like to do that, but I love it. So I love being outdoors in any season and I play a lot of tennis too.