1967
Serves within the US Navy as a quartermaster, second class, and deep-sea diver through 1971.
1973
Graduate from New York University, cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in economics and receives the Founder’s Day Award.
1976
Earns a Juris Doctor from the Gould School of Law within the University of Southern California and is admitted to The State Bar of California.
1976
Is eligible to practice law by the U.S. District Court of Los Angeles and by the U.S. District Court of San Diego in 1977.
1981
Is eligible to practice law within the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
1993
Is eligible to practice law by the U.S. District Court of Las Vegas; is also admitted to practice law by the State Bar of Nevada through 2014.
1996
Is eligible to practice law within the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit and later for the 7th Circuit in 1999.
1998
Is named among Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals through 1999.
1998
Is admitted to practice law by the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court of San Francisco.
2000
Presents as a lecturer and panelist within the American Conference Institute in San Francisco and speaks again in 2017.
2000
Is included within the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.
2001
Receives a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rating.
2008
Is in-house counsel and general counsel at Plaza Home Mortgage, Inc., in San Diego, CA. and continues to do so.
2013
Is named among the Top Lawyers in San Diego by San Diego Magazine each year through 2017.
2014
Presents as lecturer and panelist within the American Conference Institute in New York.
2015
Presents as lecturer and panelist within the American Conference Institute in Los Angeles.
2016
Receives the Martindale-Hubbell Anniversary Award for 15 years as a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rated Lawyer.
2017
Presents as lecturer and panelist within the American Conference Institute in San Diego.
2020
Maintains his Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rating which he has done since 2001.
2020
Is listed in the American Registry: Most Honored Lawyers Top 1%, and has been listed every year since 2015.