It feels great when I get to help the underdog to win a fight. I do this all the time when I represent everyday people against big insurance companies.
My dad encouraged me to consider law school years before I finally made the decision to go. A biography of John Adams, in which I read about “[h]is love of the law,” pushed me to follow my dad’s advice. John Adams wrote:
“Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and ready at command, to assist the feeble and friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to procure redress to wrongs, the advancement of right, to assert and maintain liberty and virtue, to discourage and abolish tyranny and vice?” McCullough, David, John Adams (Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2001), p. 53.
I was born in Portland, Oregon, but after moving a couple of other times, my family finally settled in North Carolina in 1988. I have come to love North Carolina! I served a two-year volunteer mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Manaus, Brazil and later married Alejandra Gómez, originally from Honduras. These experiences helped me to developed an appreciation for people of other cultures and nations.
My background informs and influences my law practice. I serve native North Carolinians as well as people from various Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil. I strive to treat everyone I meet in a Christian way.
When not at work, I spend time with my wife and four children, playing adult league soccer and pick-up basketball, hiking, jogging, and working in the yard. I serve on the Annie Penn Foundation board of directors and in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
