 From 1976 to 1978 he was a legal intern for R. Peter Shapiro of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and later for the law firm of Myers & Brown in Concord, New Hampshire.From 1977 to 1978 he was research and teaching assistant to professor Stephen K. Glickman at the Franklin Pierce Law Center.In 1977 he was a law clerk for New Hampshire District Judge Hugh H. Bownes.