Perhaps what you expected to find on this page was a technical description of the legal fields in which I practice. However, I would like to take the opportunity instead to describe my approach to the practice of law, my focus.
My office is both accessible to and comfortable for my clients, who are the focus of my practice. I strive to create an environment in which you, as client, will know that when I am with you, that my only focus is on you.
I believe that we, as attorneys, have a unique chance to meet, interact, and work with wonderful people who are often in difficult, complex, or confusing situations. Education and advice should meet client needs, and provide both solutions and resolution. That is my continuing goal.
Here is my philosophy concerning the practice of law: client goals must be met in a holistic manner. We are Attorneys and Counselors at Law. We cannot ignore the interpersonal; we must create and then protect the professional relationship between lawyer and client. Legal education is principally about facts, and knowledge and analysis of the law, but legal competence, fact gathering and analysis must be combined with relationship skills -- this is the heart of the movement known as therapeutic jurisprudence, a philosophy of legal thought addressed by Professors David Wexler and Bruce Winick in the late 1980’s. It is also client-centered counseling, humanizing the law. I embrace such a view of the law as a helping profession.
