WHY I PRACTICE LAW

I grew up working jigsaw puzzles with my family on lazy Sunday afternoons.  The law is a lot like that for me, starting with the first case I ever read the night before my first law school class, Laredo Hides Co., Inc. v. H & H Meat Product Co., Inc., 513 S.W.2d 210 (Tex. Civ. App.Corpus Christi 1974, writ ref'd n.r.e.), to be exact.  It was putting a puzzle together all over again, sorting the pieces into groups and making them fit together to form one whole.  I even liked studying for the bar exam because all these separate courses, which had been so compartmentalized in my mind, started fitting together and making sense as one body of law.  It's why I love appellate work, sorting all those pieces of a case into different boxes of error and somehow getting it down on paper to make one picture which persuasively tells your client's story.  As with every lawyer, I love winning cases; and I hate losing.  But the process of getting there is what I truly enjoy.

FAMILY

The joy in my life is my son Devin, a Tulane University graduate, who just received his Masters from New York University.  He's living in Manhattan looking for a teaching job and, hopefully, writing the great American novel. 

WHAT KEEPS ME SANE

Needlepoint retreats in Fredericksburg (Needlepoint Camp my son dubbed it; and he's right); needlepointing anywhere, anytime; flyfishing with Bob, the Texas coast or hill country, Colorado, Montana, anywhere there are fish for me to stalk; and Duke and Pepper, my very spoiled (but very good bird hunter) English pointers.