After graduation, law review, honor society and several American Jurisprudence awards in hand, he served a clerkship with a state supreme court justice, then moved to a major international law firm, doing ACLU volunteer work in his spare time. Learning there was a shortage of death penalty defense attorneys, and bored with making buckets of money, he left high-rise office life for the mud pit of death penalty work, and also job-shared a trial court judgeship on the side. Publications include co-authoring legal works on several subjects, including the rights of seniors and disabled Americans, and an ABA award winning book on “legal ethics”, a phrase he describes as an oxymoron.