Practice Areas: Criminal Defense; Immigration Defense & Legalization; Employment Law (Employee Discipline, Wrongful Termination, Harrasment, Discrimination); Landlord-Tenant (Disputes & Leases); Business Law (Commerical Transactions & Contracts, Confidentiality Agreements, Covenants Not To Compete, Non-Competition & Nonsolicitation); Consumer Law (Consumer Fraud, Consumer Rights); Medical Professional Licensure Discipline & HIPAA.

Admitted: 2005, Pennsylvania

Law School: Temple School of Law, J.D., 1997

Legal Membership: Eastern District of Pennsylvania (federal), Middle District of Pennsylvania (federal), Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; Northampton County Bar Association; Lehigh County Bar Association; American Immigration Lawyers Association; National Employment Lawyers Association; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Pennsylvania Public Defenders Association, past member; Association of Corporate Counsel, past member;  

Professional: Public Defender, 2 years; probation officer, 4 years; commercial contract attorney & in-house counsel, 2 years; corporate Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of a national healthcare clearinghouse & PPO, 7 & 6 years respectively; Secretary/Board Member of community services group providing housing to low-income families and the elderly through a church-sponsored agency, 16+ years.

Biography: Married 25 years (and still happy), 3 children (23, 21 &14, or there-about)

Born: McKeesport, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1966