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I decided when I began my career, that watching my kids grow up was more important than spending 80 hours a week in a big city high rise. Balancing a successful career with being home at night to help my kids with their homework remains an important goal for me. You should see the science projects my kids turn in!

The first 12 years I practiced law, I worked in small patent law firms for small business and independent inventor clients. I couldn’t have asked for better experience…particularly the years I spent litigating. While I have no interest in ever again being a litigator, knowing how litigators think made me a considerably better prosecutor.

If you see me wearing a tie, it is probably a day when I “attorney-coach” a local high school’s mock trial teams. It isn’t often you see people truly excited about our legal system (most attorneys would do something else if they could), and their excitement is infectious. Plus, they are amazing performers who would easily beat most attorneys. That fact is one of the most encouraging things you’ll ever see.

I love teaching myself new things. I love the challenge of it. My current passion: astronomy. My wife is glad I am no longer studying breeding and rearing aquarium fish (she claims I had eleven fish tanks when we met in college…I think she’s exaggerating). If you’re around me long, you’ll realize that I love teaching others what I’ve learned.

I enjoy camping with my family, it is one of the “perks” of living in Idaho. I’m sorry if a few weekends a year you can’t reach me on my cell phone… When we’re not camping, I’m likely working in the yard, gardening, or working on one of the four different remodeling projects we have going on at any one time.