About Me - Legal and Business Writer

I started my career as a journalist at general-interest newspapers, then moved to the legal media when I moved to Los Angeles -- most recently at the Los Angeles Daily Journal. My biggest beats there were large law firms and business litigation, but I also had the privilege of handling a few breaking news stories, including the merger of Piper Rudnick and Gray Cary into mega-firm DLA. I credit my background as a journalist with helping me learn to research complex ideas very quickly and cold-call total strangers. It has also ingrained in me a respect for deadlines.

As I say on my Services page, that background led naturally into my specialty in legal writing once I became a freelancer. I enjoy the intellectual challenge of working with attorneys. I particularly like the idea that I can help "translate" legal concepts (and ideas from other professional specialties) into language that laypeople can understand. Importantly, I am not a lawyer myself and never have been, unlike many freelance legal writers -- I'm just very interested.

I am a Southern California native, live in West Los Angeles and do not write screenplays.