Litigation & Appeals

Preparation, Integrity, and Experience.

“There is no such thing as tough… There is only trained and untrained.”

It’s one of my favorite movie quotes, spoken by Denzel Washington in “Man on Fire”–and it applies not only in the realm of martial arts masters and spy movies, but equally to the courtroom. No matter how aggressive, how talented, or how convincing an attorney may be, there is no substitute for real world training and experience.

Effective representation means providing clients with a realistic appraisal of their case (the good and the bad), objectively moving through each phase, and making decisions based on training and experience–never on emotion. Over 15 years litigating administrative hearings, district court cases, and appeals, (as a prosecuting attorney, as a private attorney representing businesses and government entities, and as a public interest attorney representing unions and individual employees)–it’s training from the only source that counts: experience.

Areas covered:

• State and Federal civil litigation and defense.
• Administrative hearings and appeals.
• Licensing board proceedings.
• Professional association and regulatory agency proceedings.
• State and Federal Appeals.
• Post-judgment collection actions.
• Settlement conferences.
• Mediations.
• Arbitrations.
• Developing litigation avoidance strategies.