About Michael

People often ask me what I like best about my job as an adoption attorney. Without hesitation, I always say, “When I receive that first Thank You card or Holiday Card with a photograph of the family that I in part helped create.”

I’ve done a lot of adoptions, yet every one of them is special to me. I can’t think of another profession that would give me the same feeling I have once the papers for finalization are signed and I see the look on the adoptive parents’ faces.

I graduated from Creighton University School of Law, Omaha, NE in 1988, and I practiced criminal law and small business law for the following eight years. However, in 1996 I was given an opportunity to begin practicing adoption law, and after the first few cases, I instantly knew that I wanted to make a career out of completing families. I have completed over 1,000 adoptions since then.

I have a wonderful wife and two great kids who understand that my job sometimes requires me to miss family dinners or my kids’ football games or dance recitals. It is tough at times, but if the roles were reversed, I would want my adoption attorney to be available at any time on any day. Communication is essential in this profession, and I wouldn’t be successful without this commitment to prospective adoptive families and birth parents.

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