My motivation

My family motivates me every day to face life's new challenges with energy and good humor, and my clients motivate my work by trusting our team with their most important legal issues. I do my best to recognize that while I deal with tough legal issues regularly, oftentimes these are once-in-a-lifetime significant problems for our clients, and need to be treated with that high level of diligence and care.

My latest accomplishments

Becoming a U.S. Citizen in 2018. I love being Canadian, but it was really a thrill to finally get through the arduous naturalization process and become an American like my wife and children, and cast a ballot in an election for the first time in my life! Now, it's on to jury duty! 

Next big goal

Having been born and raised in Canada, it is a unique privilege for me that our law firm was chosen to represent the Government of Canada as U.S. Legal Counsel in connection with the new Gordie Howe International Bridge being built between Windsor and Detroit. I work as part of a large team of talented attorneys on the challenging legal issues presented by this truly monumental project, and it has been a firm-wide achievement to help bring the Bridge into the construction phase. The big goal, however, is yet to come: the completion of the bridge and the opening of a brand new international crossing between the country of my birth and my new home. That will be a great day!     

Why is choosing your own path important?

I believe that success only comes as the result of choices (and mistakes) that you make, and not ones that others make for you. If you are pursuing someone else's idea of success or happiness, the outcome will never feel right even if you've achieved the objective goals. It seems to me that the key is deciding on your own goals and taking ownership of the steps needed to meet those goals. For me, Alma College was the perfect place to figure it out with the tools to make it happen!

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