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Education
Trial Lawyers College Graduate, July 2010
Truck Driver Training, The Legacy Corporation - 2018
Law School: University of Wyoming College of Law (J.D., 2007)
Undergraduate Degrees: University of Wyoming (B.A., 2002)
Legal Ratings
U.S. News Best Lawyers in America
Lawyer of the Year 2023
Martindale Hubbell AV peer review rating, the highest rating for legal ability and ethics
AVVO Rated 10.0, Highest attorney rating
U.S. News Best Lawyers in America, 2020, 2021, 2022
Top 40 under 40, The National Trial Lawyers, 2013 & 2016
Law Organizations and Leadership Positions
Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys
Trial Lawyers College, Faculty, 2016
Case Development & Planning
Voir Dire
Opening Statements
Direct Examinations
Cross Examinations
Closing Arguments
Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association, President 2021, Board Member (2010-2018)
American Association of Justice
Chair of Motor Vehicle Collision and Premises Liability Section, 2021
Truck Litigation Group
Rideshare Litigation Group
Credentials
US District Court, District of Wyoming, 2007
Colorado State Bar
Wyoming State Bar
Montana State Bar
US District Court for Colorado
US District Court for Idaho
US District Court for Utah
US District Court for Eastern Washington
US District Court for New Mexico
Speaking Engagements
TBI MedLegal: Brain Injuries and Brain Buckets: How to approach motorcycle crashes and brain injured clients
Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys
How to get commercial truck driving standards to apply to your car wreck case?
Cell Phones and Mobile Devices in your Truck Accidents
Sitting Ducks and Slow Trucks: Stropped, Parked and Slow Moving Trucking Accident Cases
Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association, Road Construction Zone Auto Accident Cases
Consumer Attornmeys Association of Los Angeles: Deposing the Truck Driver in your CMV Case
Wyoming Law Podcast, Bringing Video Depositions to life
Settlement Nation Podcast, Episode 2
My Story
I was born in Montana and grew up in Wyoming. I grew up in the Rocky Mountains, learning to love and cherish the outdoors. During my summers in college, I worked as a wild-land firefighter, traveling the western United States on a hotshot crew. I continued on as a firefighter after graduating, working as a sawyer and squad-boss. Wildland firefighting taught me about intensely hard work and gave me an appreciation for a hard day’s pay. Sometimes we were forced to work up to 18 days straight in the rugged and remote mountainous country, where I packed a heavy chainsaw up and down those mountains to cut fire line in the fight against raging forest fires. It was during this period in my life I learned the definition of “hard work” and most importantly how to be dependable to others whose lives and safety depended on it. Firefighting taught me major life lessons on hard work, dependability, trust, credibility, and accountability. And those lessons carried on with me through law school and into my practice as an attorney.
During the first ten years of my practice, I worked for the greatest trial lawyer in American History; Gerry Spence and his law firm. In 2013, I was acknowledged as one of the Top 40 Lawyers under the age of 40 years old. In 2010, I graduated from Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyer’s College located on the beautiful Thunderhead Ranch outside of Dubois, Wyoming, where I return each year to teach.
Over the past 14 years, I had the privilege of representing remarkable and wonderful people winning seven and eight figure oilfield and trucking accident settlements. There are numerous stories of great people whose lives were destroyed as a result of other’s bad decisions and failures to be accountable and responsible. From oilfield and gas field drilling and pipeline accidents, industrial accidents, trucking, motorcycle and vehicular accidents, products liability, workplace accidents, unsafe premises conditions, nursing home malfeasance, I fight hard for my clients with a great team.
