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I enjoy testing and building my strengths. I enjoy engaging in combat, pitting myself against adversaries and challenges.

I train in the gym and in several martial arts. Yet I am not under the impression I will ever win a court case by engaging opposing counsel in a sword duel. Nor am I under the impression my size or strength can be used to intimidate prosecutors or other attorneys.

I had the good fortune to work for almost 8 years in the Clark County District Attorney's Office and even though I am on the other side now, still maintain friendly relations with many prosecutors. Certainly I am not under any belief that I intimidate any of them; they are good people who would not back down from any threat or attempted intimidation. The advantages that size, or strength, or fitness of physical training give me have more to do with my attitude than any

influence over anyone else.

The days of disputes being settled at the sword points of armed gladiators are over. Today the battles over our rights are fought by lawyers in the courtroom, not in the sands of the arena. Yet even if the armor has been replaced by expensive suits and swords turned in for legal briefs, it is still a fighter's skill with the weapons at hand, and even more importantly their attitude and spirit, which dictate who prevails.

I went into law to fight as a modern gladiator, to be a warrior, a knight, doing battle for those less able to do it in their own behalf. In that battle fought on the floors of the courtroom, the confidence I have from many years of building my body and training in martial arts shows through and enables me to fight that much more strongly for my client.

The discipline and self-control with which I have approached these other areas of my life gives me tremendous benifits in constructing a defense for a client. I also know from my training that while pure aggressiveness and a combative spirit can carry one a long ways in a fight, that the skills and mindset that comes with preparation, hard work and years of experience "in the trenches" cannot be beaten.

And I know that a legal case, in the end, is a fight. A fight must be approached with both an starting strategy and an ability to be flexible when everything does not work out according to your initial battle plan. In a fight you cannot be passive, cannot simply wait for your opponent to decide what they are going to do. Even as a defendant in a criminal case, you must have a plan of attack, you cannot simply passively defend against the prosecutor's case.

If I agree to take your case and defend you, do not expect me to bench press a Deputy District Attorney or to karate chop a City prosecutor. Instead expect that you will have an attorney in your corner who loves to fight, who will approach your case like a war to be fought on your behalf and will use the all the discipline, confidence, aggressiveness, combative spirit, experience and battle tested legal skills at his disposal to get the best results for you.