About the author
I earned degrees in business and law at the University of Arizona, graduated in the top ten-percent of my class, edited the Arizona Law Review and practiced law for 32 years with one of Arizona’s largest law firms (Jennings, Strouss, & Salmon & Trask). I was a full time trial lawyer until 2000 when I published my first novel. Since then, I have blended a part-time law practice with teaching law and writing at Arizona State University. I was inducted into the Arizona Lawyer Hall of Fame in 2010. While I’m still practicing law part time, I don’t try big cases these days. Instead, I write about them.
Over the years, I’ve published a dozen law review articles, and hundreds of op-ed pieces, essays, magazine articles, short stories, CLE booklets, and six books, including: “The Ethical Trial Lawyer,” State Bar of Arizona, 1994; “Litigation Ethics,” Lexis-Nexis Publishing, 1998; “The Gallup 14,” a novel, University of New Mexico Press, 2000; “Miranda—The Story of America’s Right to Remain Silent,” University of Arizona Press, 2004; and “AIM For The Mayor,” a novel, Xlibris Press, 2008; “Innocent Until Interrogated—The Story of The Buddhist Temple Massacre and the Tucson Four,” University of Arizona Press, 2010.
Three of my books were published by prestigious academic presses and were peer-reviewed by tenured faculty (The Gallup 14—University of New Mexico Press) (Miranda—The Story of America’s Right to Remain Silent—University of Arizona Press), and (Innocent Until Interrogated—The Story of the Buddhist Temple Massacre). All three have sold well in print, earned critical acclaim, and won important book prizes. Two of my books are legal textbooks (The Ethical Trial Lawyer—State Bar of Arizona Publishing Co), and (Ethical Litigation—LexisNexis.com Publishing Company).
In May 2013, my first Western novel will be published in e-Book formatting. It is the first in a four-book series about an iconic 1880s cowboy who rides the high country on the New Mexico- Colorado border looking for outlaws, in-laws, and trouble every time he talks his horse into crossing a new river. The first of those Western novels is “Angus—Riding the Rio Chama.”