[citation needed] He served as a judicial clerk for Edward J. Schwartz, then joined three other attorneys in founding a firm specializing in criminal defense, civil rights litigation and community mobilization.
[1] They used criminal defense, immigration law, and personal injury cases to pay the bills and subsidize their civil rights practice, where the odds of winning were less.
[1] At Stanford he co-founded the now defunct Lawyering for Social Change Program,[2] at UCLA the Program in Public Interest Law and Policy,[1] and the Center for Community Problem Solving at NYU.
[1] In Rebellious Lawyering he sought to develop a new vision of the progressive practice of law.
[2] As a result of his approach, he advocates for comprehensive and coordinated legal and non-legal problem solving in low-income, of color, and immigrant communities.