While I've been through numerous years of schooling to become a lawyer and a CPA, being a Vietnam combat veteran with 15 years of flying Army helicopters has also had a significant impact on my legal career.

I am not afraid to go up against any firm or anyone. In flight school, they teach you to think on the fly, make good decisions quickly and move forward. The officers taught me not to key the microphone until I knew what I was going to say, say it, then stop. That serves my clients well in court.

Precision with words and numbers has been my style ever since.