Judges in San Luis Valley

I think early on in my career I was very lucky to be there and you know I’ve tried a number of cases with a man named Cass Garcia. I think Cass, along the lines of being one of the best trial attorneys in the state.

Mostly he did criminal cases, but he had an incredible group of people that trusted him.

He was kind enough to let me come there and try cases and I would be the personal injury attorney and he would help select jurors. That gave me an understanding of how things worked in the San Luis Valley. I’m not talking about five or ten cases, I’m talking about dozens of cases.

And those trials, I think I’d learned things here, when I’m in federal court and the courtroom is bigger, the judges sit way up on a great big platform. I see them working together because you take the skill set and you take the experience in federal court and state court, like the counties here and you take it there.

But I also see that the things I learn from the people in the San Luis Valley, you know, the talking with them, the talking about how these injuries affect them, getting to meet their families, talking to jurors, I think that also helped my practice all over the state.

I look back at that part of my career and it’s continuing, I’m going to be in San Luis Valley next week. I’ll be in Alamosa next week. I look at that as being very significant, in terms of growth as being an attorney.