Blog posts, published columns, and conversations - perspectives on litigation, leadership, and the profession.
Twenty years in a courtroom teaches you things that don’t fit in a brief. The blog is where some of that goes. The published columns and Q&A are where the more formal thinking lives.
After more than twenty years of practicing law, one of the things that has always helped me answer the question of why I do this is volunteering. Law school teaches you how to think. Your job teaches you how to practice. But volunteering teaches you something different.
One of the places professionalism comes up most often is in discovery and requests for extensions of deadlines. The best lawyers manage to advocate hard for their clients while still being someone opposing counsel and judges trust and respect.
A Mother's Day weekend at the ballpark after a hard week at work. On how kids pull you out of your own head without even trying, and what a bobbled play between the pitcher and first baseman has in common with the part of practice that lingers after you go home.
Monthly President's Column in Arizona Attorney Magazine during the 2021–2022 State Bar presidency, plus an oral history for the Arizona Bar Foundation.
The cases that stay with me are the ones where a family came in overwhelmed and left with some sense of resolution, not just legally, but emotionally.
Read full answer →Judgment. Knowing what actually matters in a case and having the discipline to let go of everything that does not is genuinely rare.
Read full answer →The honest answer is that I still love the courtroom. Trial is where everything comes together. That opportunity never gets old.
Read full answer →I read every message personally. I’ll treat your inbox the same way.
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