I grew up in southern Maine (South Portland and Standish), graduated from Bonny Eagle High School (in Buxton-Standish), and attended the University of Southern Maine (in Gorham and Portland). I moved to California (in the Bay Area) before finishing my undergrad degree, but I moved back to South Portland more than five years later and finished my undergrad degree at USM (with an English major) in 2011. I then attended the University of Maine School of Law (in Portland), finishing my law degree in 2013 and passing the bar exam in 2014. I relocated again, this time to the Bangor area, where I have lived and worked as an attorney since 2014. I currently am a sole practitioner with an office in Bangor. My focus as a lawyer is on criminal defense and employee-side workers’ compensation, although I have engaged in a fair share of civil litigation (protection from abuse and harassment cases, contract disputes, etc.) and sometimes do work for small businesses (for example, LLC formation).
In my extended pre-attorney years I worked mostly in retail jobs, and those jobs mostly consisted of manual labor (although I sometimes had minor supervisory or managerial roles). I gained valuable, firsthand knowledge of the relationship between large companies and the people who perform the labor that keeps them running. I recognize, with gratitude, the good fortune that I have: I no longer have to push my body with repetitive-strain injuries (except for the occasional tendinitis from typing) or have to worry about how I’d survive financially if I could no longer perform manual labor or have to endure the tedium of countless hours of monotonous tasks.
In my free time I hang out with my dogs and cats, occasionally get some exercise, watch horror movies with my wife, listen to podcasts, read books, and make hiphop beats.
