i have seen law as a helping profession

you’re bringing a base of knowledge to

two people so i’ve spent

you know a lot of years in law school

and then 28 years in practice you know

you’re bringing that knowledge to people

um to help them solve their problems and

so

i see it as a as a helping profession in

that way

that we’re you know getting people to to

a new place and it’s you know the most

intense

difficult intimate areas of people’s

lives

meeting their relationship with their

children and their and their spouse and

we’re trying to find solutions to that

often very tangled web you know helping

people get to a better place in their

life is kind of one of the is one of the

things i see as a

hallmark of my approach to the law

a lot of times we have clients come in

who are in a very bad place

ranging from victims of abuse to

chemically dependent or have a

chemically dependent spouse

people with mental health issues i mean

there’s just a whole range of things

and they’re in a bad place because of

those problems or because of their

spouse

and very often by the end of the case

you know people have a path

either to

sobriety or access to their kids or

dealing with their mental health issues

very often there’s there’s a lot of

success stories

and in my adr practice there’s a lot

more success stories because

while litigation is focused on

you know pointing out the facts and the

flaws

in the other side

dispute resolution you’re

problem-solving you’re trying to find

ways of helping you know this family

untangle itself

and so you’re you know figuring out

schedules and access to money and access

to property vehicles houses whatever

most of those opportunities you know you

spend three hours with the family

they come in wanting to solve their

problems and usually they do

and usually they find solutions

even in just a three-hour meeting so

there’s a lot of rewards in that that

aspect of my practice