He helped draft Maine’s milk pricing laws and has experience representing individual farmers in connection with agricultural conservation easements. He has also represented the Portland Farmers Market Association in its dealings with the City of Portland. He is a member of Drummond Woodsum’s public sector group and has been recognized in Best Lawyers of America in the areas of Public Finance and School Law. He is a former member of the Maine House of Representatives where he was the sponsor of Maine’s first Farm and Open Space Tax law. He is an honors graduate of Harvard College and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at Columbia Law School.