He left as Chief of the Supreme Court Trial Bureau in Queens, New York to accept a position in the Broward State Attorney's Office in 1977.

Upon leaving the State Attorney's Office, he entered private practice in the areas of civil and criminal litigation.

He was actively involved in writing several pieces of consumer legislation including the areas of automobile leasing, telephone sales solicitations, health clubs, travel agent regulation and viatical settlements.

Elected to chief judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in February, 2011 by his colleagues and subsequently re-elected in 2013 and 2015.

This a court designed to assist those veterans who have been charged with a criminal offense, to obtain therapeutic treatment services.