I really like with estate planning that

you get to do you really do get to help

people you either get to help them on

the front end which I think the majority

of our work is and I really like Estate

Planning in the sense that you get to be

proactive when you’re you’re drafting a

will and a trust and Powers of Attorney

you’re planning um you’re being

preventative you’re able to keep people

out of court help avoid fights all of

that kind of stuff

um save people money save people stress

save people grief I really like to be

able to being able to do that on the

front end and it’s also really rewarding

after somebody’s lost somebody to be

able to kind of guide them uh through

that process of kind of tying up the

Loose Ends and going to court if they

have to and and helping them through a

difficult process and trying to make it

a little bit easier on them I personally

used to do different types of law I used

to do some family law and a little bit

of criminal defense and so I was in

court three four five days a week there

was always a big hearing coming up where

there was going to be some big judgment

that was either going to go my client’s

way or go against them and so it was a

lot of stress it was a lot of sleepless

nights and I really feel like with

estate planning that I still get to to

help people and get that rewarding

feeling but I get to to do it in a way

that’s less stressful for me and then

prevent stress and stuff like that down

the road for them so it’s it’s really

good on all ends

foreign

I grew up in the Washington DC area in

Northern Virginia and then went to the

University of Tennessee I had a single

mom growing up me and my little brother

and she was an elementary school teacher

so she was always really focused on

education and learning and all that kind

of stuff in reading and then I went to

the University of Tennessee and for

undergrad and got a business degree and

kind of went and did a bunch of

different stuff after that I was in the

military in the Air Force I I taught

English in Thailand I’ve been a personal

trainer I’ve been a bartender I’ve been

in sales but then finally once I got to

be probably about 28 I decided to to go

back and go to law school and the rest

is kind of History I went to law school

and I went back to the University of

Tennessee

um I’ve been practicing law then for

seven years I spent the first couple of

years in Tennessee in the in East

Tennessee and I represented the vast

majority of what I did was I did court

appointed representation so when they

say if you you can’t afford an attorney

one will be appointed to you a lot of

people tend to think of criminal defense

and stuff like that and it’s that’s

definitely the case as well but in

Tennessee if a parent has their child

removed from their custody by the state

of Tennessee by the Tennessee Department

of children’s services for like abuse or

neglect they if they don’t if they’re

under a certain income threshold they’re

entitled to a court appointed attorney

to basically fight on their behalf and

and try and help them get custody back

of their child and so I did that for a

couple years and I represented a lot of

people that had a lot of different kinds

of issues everything from like people

that were accused of of physically and

abusing their children to all different

kinds of neglect to also even like

sexual abuse and so those cases were no

fun they were very intense and that’s

kind of why I lost a lot of sleep and so

it’s one of those things that I’m very

glad that I had that experience

um I feel like I got to help a lot of

people and I also learned a whole lot

but I’m also glad that I’m doing what I

am now