I attended University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, in Sacramento, California, graduating in 1978. I have practiced in Alaska and only in Alaska for 35 years.
While there, I received two American Jurisprudence awards for scholarship.
Upon graduation, I moved to Wrangell, Alaska, where I opened my own general practice of civil law and criminal defense.
In 1986, I moved to Juneau and opened my practice there. After a couple of years of general practice, I limited things to criminal defense only, handling many different types of criminal cases, from drug offenses to violent crimes, to DUIs/drunk drivings.
In 1996, after two years of working on it, I completed ‘Drunk Driving in Alaska,’ a cases and principles book on the subject.
From the beginning, I have defended what I estimate to be about 14-1500 drunk driving / DUI cases, along with many drug cases involving methamphetamine, marijuana, mushrooms, cocaine, heroin and other […]