Practice areas
A deliberately short list. Each of these is work I do regularly and well; anything outside it, I will say so and point you toward someone who does.
Estate planning is the kindest paperwork there is: it is a set of instructions that spares the people you love from guessing. I draft wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and the other documents that make up a complete plan, and I administer estates after a death — probate filings, creditor matters, distributions, and the patient untangling that estates usually need.
A particular focus: estate planning for owners of health care businesses. A practice, an agency, or a facility is not an ordinary asset. Licenses, provider agreements, payer relationships, and regulatory obligations all complicate what happens when an owner dies or steps away. I build succession and estate plans that take those moving parts seriously, so the business and the family are both protected.
Health care providers live inside a lattice of regulation, and most compliance failures are really documentation failures. I review documents and systems for providers and organizations of any size — policies, contracts, consent and intake paperwork, internal processes — with regulatory expectations in mind, so the paper trail tells the story it needs to tell before anyone official comes asking.
I have run small businesses, not just advised them. That changes the counsel: I know that every hour spent on legal process is an hour away from the work, and that the goal is not a perfect document but a durable one. I help owners with formation and governance questions, contracts, and the recurring decisions where a lawyer's hour saves an owner's week.
Families and providers navigating education and disability systems face institutions with their own procedures, timelines, and vocabularies. I provide advocacy and consultation on these matters — helping clients understand what the rules actually require, prepare for meetings and reviews, and put requests and disagreements in writing that institutions respond to.
I handle family law matters only where an amicable working relationship exists between the parties, and my role is the paperwork: separation agreements, uncontested filings, and the documents that let reasonable people finish a hard chapter cleanly. I do not litigate family disputes. If your matter is contested, I will say so early and refer you to counsel who fights for a living.