If you are visiting this site and you are thinking of hiring me to be your lawyer, I figure that you might want to know something about me. So on this page, I’m laying out some of my background.
My Timeline
If you’re wondering whether to hire me and you’re curious about my past, you can find some information here, starting with the present day and working my way back in time.
Working as a Construction Lawyer (2017 to the present day): Lang Thal King & Hanson PC
In 2017, I returned from working as the Chief Counsel for the Arizona Registrar of Contractors to the law firm I started working at in 2012.
I became a partner in the firm in 2020, and in 2023 the firm was renamed to Lang Thal King & Hanson. (Here’s a post about that.)
Chief Counsel of the ROC (2015 to 2017): Arizona Registrar of Contractors
From March 2015 to May 2017, I served as the Chief Counsel of the Arizona Registrar of Contractors.
When I worked at the ROC, I was the head of the Registrar’s legal department, which also meant that I was in charge of the Recovery Fund.
Starting as a Construction Lawyer (2012 to 2015)
The judicial clerkship that I had at the Arizona Court of Appeals lasted for a year. After that year, I went to work at the law firm that I work at now, but back then it was called Lang Baker & Klain.
As an associate attorney at the firm, I worked on commercial litigation and construction litigation and construction law more generally. One of the parts of my construction-law practice was helping people with the Registrar of Contractors.
Working as a Law Clerk (2011 to 2012): Arizona Court of Appeals
After I graduated from law school, I was able to work as a judicial law clerk at the Arizona Court of Appeals. The judge I worked for was Judge Peter B. Swann.
Law School (2008 to 2011): Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University
After I taught, I went to law school at ASU.
Working as a Teacher (2003 to 2008): Veritas Preparatory Academy
After I graduated from college, I eventually found a job teaching Latin and Ancient History at Veritas Preparatory Academy. The campus is now at 56th Street north of Thomas in Phoenix. But when I taught there, we were at the campus of a church on Lincoln Boulevard, were Lincoln crosses the 51 and turns into Glendale Avenue.
Veritas Prep is now part of the Great Hearts network of charter schools. But when I started, there was no such thing as Great Hearts yet. Veritas was just a small start-up, having spun off from Tempe Preparatory Academy.
College Years (1998 to 2002): Thomas Aquinas College
The college I attended was Thomas Aquinas College. That’s in Ventura County, California, on the road from Santa Paula to Ojai.
The curriculum is based on “The Great Books” and every class is a seminar (no lectures).
High School Years (1994 to 1998): Paradise Valley High School
I graduated from PV High School in 1998. Technically, because of the neighborhood we lived in, I should have gone to Horizon High School. But my mother taught at PV (she was a home-economics teacher), and so that’s where I went.
