i think i always wanted to be an

attorney but i didn’t start out as a

family law attorney i started out as a

civil litigator

and i was practicing in a

medium-sized boutique

probably a boutique size uh

civil firm

doing mortgage-backed securities

law which doesn’t sound

very exciting but i did learn so many

skills that that parlayed into family

law i knew every code i knew everything

about discovery i knew everything about

litigation and evidence

and i had a friend who who uh called me

one day and said hey i wanna

uh see if you’re interested we need a

family law attorney and i’m like what

i’m not sure about that

and i thought to myself after a few days

maybe it’s time for

a switch i was a little burned out doing

civil litigation and and i said well

what the hell i’ll i’ll uh i’ll try it

and i never looked back it was the best

move i ever made i love this area of the

law it’s exciting it’s an adrenal

adrenaline rush which i am an adrenaline

junkie

it’s fascinating the people are

fascinating and you learn

every single day

about something either about taxes or

business and that’s what i love about it

never do anything else

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that’s a hard one because in this area

of practice you know you’re really

meeting people

at their worst

most people they’re they’re losing their

marriage they’re arguing over who’s

getting the kids

money may be an issue

because now suddenly you have two

households to support

and i think the best advice to give to

all clients is to try to look at

the

case

as more

of a business

arrangement and a business dissolution

as opposed to having so much emotion

because when you’re that emotional

as you should be going through a divorce

but i think it clouds your judgment in

making key decisions that

could ultimately either hurt you

um or hurt the trajectory of your case

so i think the biggest piece of advice

is try

to keep the emotion toned down as much

as possible and let us handle those

issues for you let us kind of be

there for you and be your friend or

therapist

so that you can really think about what

is best for you and what is in your best

interest moving forward