Private practice, 1979-88. Bureau Chief of Tort and Civil Rights Litigation, Nassau County Attorney's Office, 1989-95. Director, Nassau County Sports Commission. Co-Chair, Nassau County Interdisciplinary Forum for Law, Mental Health, Medicine and Education.
Negative advocacy is often self-defeating.
I appreciate the complexity of the issues they encounter, which requires a multi-disciplinary assessment of a client's needs from legal, psychological, emotional and economic perspectives. I dislike it when lawyers banter with each other and lose sight of their professional objectivity.