I come from a family of lawyers. My Dad and Mom met as clerks for a federal judge, so without the law I wouldn't exist. When I was nine years old, my Dad invited me to come watch him argue in the United States Supreme Court... and I said no. Apparently I had better things to do at school. To be honest, I think he should have made me go. School did not much agree with me: I dropped out of high school, and I became a lawyer without going to college. Instead, I took CLEP equivalency tests, and then I followed the "Abe Lincoln" method of reading for the Bar. I didn't really want to be a lawyer: I was working on a tech startup, and I was so busy patenting technologies I'd invented that I only gave myself two weeks to study for the California Bar. That was a dumb thing to do, but it makes me sound smart because I passed. I feel like I peaked early as a lawyer; I freed an innocent man from prison before I started my practice. What more could you want to do as an officer of the court? Accomplishing that with my Dad will always be the highlight of my career, but it's also been an incredible honor to work with Nick Rowley and the amazing team at TL4J. When I'm not handling appeals for Nick, I'm on the mats training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or spending time with my infant daughter.
