So I began my career, believe it or not, as a prosecutor and moved into the civil arena back in 2001, learned how to practice civil litigation, did some minor plaintiff med mal stuff, and then, eventually, became a medical malpractice defense lawyer where I handled exclusively medical malpractice cases for some of the biggest hospital systems and insurance companies here in Maryland. Eventually found that I had lost a passion for representing doctors and hospitals and really wanted to represent the injured people that I was across the table from.

And so, I went to work in the plaintiff’s arena and after a couple of different stops in a couple of different major shops figured out that most of the lawyers weren’t really in it for the right reasons. They were in it for their egos, they were in it for the money, and that’s all they cared about and the clients were not the priority. It was get a good case that’s worth a lot of money, turn it into a lot of money for yourself, send the client on their way. That wasn’t what I wanted to do it for and in order to be able to really put the clients first and put their needs first I figured out that I needed to start my own law firm.

And so, because I had so much experience with mainly what I would call catastrophic injury, which is life changing, permanent disabilities caused by someone else’s negligence that’s what I decided to focus on. And so, I started this firm with the philosophy that we would take catastrophic cases and worry about how to fix our clients lives not about how much money we were going to make or who was going to get what car or who’s ego was on the line, you know, I settled this case for as much as another lawyer would have settled this case. But it was all about how do I help my clients repair and reconstruct the lives that have been taken away from them because someone else had a bad day?