Prior to that, he held the Curran Chair in Legal Ethics and Professionalism at Gonzaga Law School in Spokane, Washington, first as a visiting associate professor and later as a tenured associate professor. He is the author of articles in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, the Seton Hall Law Review, the Case Western Reserve Law Review, the Rutgers Law Review, the St. Mary's Journal of Legal Ethics and Malpractice and the University of Louisville Law Review.