I’ve been a lawyer for more than a decade. Through my career I’ve always handled personal injury cases. In the beginning I also did family law and criminal defense, which surprisingly help in a lot of what I do as a personal injury lawyer. It allowed me to spend a lot of time in trial and arguing to judges and opposing counsel, and becoming more comfortable in front of jury. And although I’ve now reached a point where I no longer do family law or criminal defenses, I do all personal injury but I at least have built that experience and have built on that experience to, I think, improve my skills as a trial attorney.

I did not start as a lawyer. I began as an engineer. I worked both for NASA and I worked for the National Science Foundation teaching children and teaching teachers how to improve their science skills and their science teaching. And I found that to be very rewarding. And when I became an engineer, I was lacking that experience in engineering and so after a little while of being an engineer I decided to go to law school with the hope that I would find some sort of reward, that rewarding feeling again in trying to help people.

I fell upon a job, basically, as a legal assistant in a personal injury firm doing class action cases. And I dealt every day with people who had some catastrophic loss or death and I was able to help them. And that convinced me that I should go to law school and that is how I began in this field doing personal injury law.

There’s an expression that if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life and I think that that holds true for me. Every day I come in to an office where I get to help someone. Every day I’m helping people who have suffered some of the worst losses in their life and that in and of itself is the most rewarding part of my practice.

And kind of the second most rewarding part of that is that a lot of what I do involves nursing homes and big corporate companies and to the extent that what we do here can affect a change for the better and help more people even than our clients that too is one of the things I find most rewarding in this practice.