My father was a lawyer in Duluth. That’s one of the things that Paul and I share, both of our fathers were lawyers at one point in time. But my father never did any kind of personal injury kinds of work, and I slowly found after doing all kinds of different kinds of employment that in running an insurance agency and observing what insurance companies were doing to people, that I wanted to go to law school and represent people against insurance companies.

And so that’s how my interest evolved in, so I was one of those few who went to law school knowing what they wanted to do before they entered law school. And I have been practicing since 1977. I stopped counting at 100 jury trials. I don’t know how many I’ve done at this point in time, and I love it. It’s been an opportunity to get to know lots of amazing people along the way, including some of the judges and even defense counsel.