This attorney standard of care expert is a practicing civil litigation attorney with more than 30 years of experience focusing on attorney competence, attorney compensation, legal ethics, and professional responsibility. He manages a multi-attorney civil litigation law firm, with a substantial portion of his practice devoted to attorney discipline, legal malpractice, and attorney fee disputes. He previously served as a prosecutor in a state bar disciplinary office, where he handled attorney discipline matters through trial before a professional responsibility tribunal. He has tried over 300 cases, including more than 50 jury trials, and has handled matters involving professional licensing defense, real estate litigation, and contract disputes.

He holds a Juris Doctor degree and has served on a state bar commission addressing discipline system procedures, while also acting as a fee arbitrator for a regional bar association and participating in trial advocacy and disciplinary defense organizations. With more than 5 years of expert witness experience, he provides consultation, deposition, trial, and arbitration testimony in matters involving breach of attorney standard of care, conflicts of interest, fiduciary duty, financial elder abuse allegations against attorneys, and attorney fee disputes, including testimony in state and federal courts as well as binding and mandatory fee arbitration proceedings.