PROFILE:
For most of my career many of my clients were professionals, doctors, dentists, hospital administrators. For consultations, I would go to their offices. I found they were much more relaxed in the own environments. All the necessary paperwork and evidence was close at hand. Since I wasn't in my office there were no office distrations. It was just more efficient.
I now try to go to all my clients rather than have them come to me.
EXPERIENCE:
Solo Practitioner – 1991 – date
personal injury and business litigation
health care law, managed care law, health plans, reimbursement issues, drafting of contracts, review of contracts with employees, staff physicians, and suppliers.
Gachassin, Hunter and Sigur, Lafayette, Louisiana 1983 – 1991
first chair in general insurance and professional liability litigation
representation of major oil service company in international contract litigation, worker’s compensation
Carlton, Field Pensacola, Florida 1982-1983
representation of healthcare providers
Legal Clerkship Honorable Thomas A. Clark, 1981 to 1982
United States Fifth/Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Atlanta, Georgia
University of Florida School of Law
Juris Doctor Degree, 1981
Research Editor, Florida Law Review (2 years)
Order of the Coif
Worked at Center for Governmental Responsibility, Gainesville, Florida, while attending law school
Pepperdine, Malibu, CA
Bachelor of Arts in Human Resource Management
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Kairos Prison Ministry at Louisiana State Prison Angola 1994 to date.
MILITARY SERVICE:
U. S. Navy for eleven years with service in Vietnam and stateside as a paralegal and communications technician