In earlier cases, Clients raising an undocumented child since her birth successfully navigated international notice provisions to attain conservatorship and protection for their child.
In a pro bono case, a disabled client saved her home, along with the home of her disabled adult child, through combined persistent actions in both Probate Court and Civil District Court.
In another well-publicized pro bono case, a Client ‘without a country’ who struggled for a decade to navigate State and Federal courts as a ‘foundling’ finally attained documentation. A smarter lawyer finished that fight, but I was credited with an assist. Glad to help!
Recently, my Dad clients have won two jury trials and multiple bench trials and settlements giving them what Dad’s deserve: equality.
I’m comfortable in a courtroom and prefer the courtroom to other places. If you hire me to take your case to trial, you’ll pay tens of thousands of dollars. But with me, Jennifer, Anna and everyone associated with the case, odds are you’ll get what you pay for: victory.
My background made me who I am. My father was an Oklahoma farm boy WWII POA and a welder and pipe liner, raised by a Canadian immigrant, self-taught farmer, who was a WWI combat veteran blinded by Mustard Gas; so, I understand the meaning of hard work, and I love it. I’m from nowhere, but made my way through UH, ruled its student body, then its Law Center and, later, Temple Law School: a country boy can (in fact) survive, and this one has learned to love the practice of law. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ every day, throughout the day, but it’s a personal and private matter for me. Still, I’m always able to find a way to find the way, and I give thanks for that. All people are my people. So, I avoid partisanship and social media and the madness that emanates from embracing labels. Perhaps that’s why I prefer defense work, in all circumstances; and, in all circumstances, show up to fight back.
I like to recuse trial judges, because courtrooms are not fiefdoms, and trial judges get their jobs through politics, not competency exams. Clearly, anybody can ride a wave, whether its blue or red. It’s nothing personal, but citizens must push back against power structures which are inherently classist and oligarchal. That’s not Marxism, that’s populism. From my lips to God’s ears: let my career set new standards allowing citizens greater control over the partisan judges who sometimes rule our lives from places of social madness, rather than respect all people. The ‘social justice’ and ‘critical studies’ movements reflect the reality of the tyranny of crowds. Those mind viruses are active at the trial court level. We must fight back.