About
I practice law the way I was taught to work: show up, tell the truth, and do the thing properly.
I earned my law degree from North Carolina Central University School of Law while working full-time — every semester, start to finish. I mention that not for sympathy but because it is the most honest credential I have: I understand what it means to carry more than one serious obligation at once, because I have never done it any other way.
Before and alongside the law, I have spent years running small businesses and working inside health care organizations. That background shapes the practice. When a business owner tells me about a cash-flow problem dressed up as a contract problem, I recognize it. When a provider describes a documentation system held together by one heroic employee, I have seen that too. The law I practice is grounded in how these organizations actually run.
My practice concentrates on trusts and estates, counsel to health care organizations and small businesses, education and disability advocacy, and amicable family matters — described in more detail on the practice areas page. The common thread is planning and prevention: I am the lawyer you see before things go wrong, or to keep them from going more wrong.