Initially, I think I wanted to become a lawyer because I wanted to help people. I became a plaintiff’s lawyer, the kind of lawyer that represents victims and victims’ families, because when I first became a lawyer, I was defending institutional healthcare providers, hospitals, and nursing homes, and after doing that for a few years, I realized that what I really wanted to do is helping the folks that were actually who I was defending. So the reason I because a plaintiff’s lawyer, or person that represents folks that are victims, is because I’d done the other side, and I knew that that’s what I didn’t wanna do for the rest of my life. And that’s given me kind of a very unique perspective, and over the last 13 years I’ve done nothing but sue institutional healthcare providers, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities.

I think I feel very lucky to do what I do for a living. I get up every day knowing that what I do actually helps people. We feel very fortunate in that we handle a very limited number of cases in this office, so I know each one of the families I represent, and I feel very lucky to do that.

In addition to acting as a lawyer, I’m also an associate professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix. A few times a year we are provided the luxury, or the opportunity, rather, to communicate, to teach, to lecture second- and third-year medical students, and in that capacity we are teaching these medical students about elder abuse and neglect. So in addition to practicing law, I also teach elder abuse and neglect and how that influences – or what influence the law has on elder abuse and neglect to medical students.