Worked for more than 20 years as a confidential law clerk for a judge in Supreme, County,  Family and Surrogate's Courts.

Featured speaker providing caselaw updates for the Appellate Division, Fourth Department Attorney for the Child Program, local bar associations, and the County Judge's Association of New York.

Worked as an attorney for Southern Tier Legal Services (now LawNY); as a Family Court Public Defender; and as an appellate attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Rochester.

Represented clients and obtained favorable decisions in Family Court proceedings involving custody, child support, child protective, adoptions and family offense matters.

Overturned a Syracuse University suspension of a campus organization in a NYS Supreme Court proceeding.

Works of counsel to Cole & Valkenburgh, P.C., a respected law firm in Bath, New York.