He is a Past President of the Redwood Empire Trial Lawyers Association, Past-President of the Sonoma County Trial Lawyers Association and Past President of the Consumer Attorneys of Sonoma County. He is a member of the Sonoma County Bar Association, where he serves as co-chair of the Bar's Superior Court Committee.

He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Consumer Attorneys of California, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and a variety of professional associations related to common interest development law. He is an active professor of trial tactics at the Stanford University of Law School Trial Practice Program, an active professor of trial tactics at the University of San Francisco Trial Practice Program and the professor of the trial tactics course at the Empire School of Law.

He has been a frequent lecturer in trial tactics before Bar Associations, local Trial Lawyers Associations and the Consumer Attorneys of California. His practice is limited to civil litigation with a speciality in personal injury and construction defect law.