The Lake's dirt lawyer.
Real estate, construction, docks, liens, and the paperwork under all of it. Flat fees, published the day the doors open. Until then: free tools and straight answers.
What the practice will handle. What you can read today.
Closings & contracts
What a real estate lawyer actually does at the Lake, and when a title company alone isn't enough.
Read the guide → Tract · ConstructionLiens & payment disputes
Missouri's mechanic's lien deadlines, in plain English — with a free calculator that runs the clock for you.
Use the Lien Clock → Tract · RecordsExpungement
The full statewide hub: eligibility, the petition process, real costs, and what the 2026 Clean Slate law automates.
Enter the hub → Tract · ShorelineDocks, easements & boundaries
The 662-foot line, the permit every dock needs, the $2,000 enforcement fee, and the transfer trap at closing.
Read the guide → Tract · DefenseDWI & BWI
The Saturday-night stop on the water, what a Class B misdemeanor actually costs, and the Monday-morning checklist.
Read the guide →What this practice will never touch.
Personal injury and workers' comp — those belong with a firm that does nothing else, done right. Cannabis licensing. Entertainment contracts. Tenant-side evictions. Hourly billing. And hiring anybody — you'll get the lawyer whose name is on the door, every time, because there won't be anybody else here.
Prices, in writing, before you call. Arriving 2027.
Flat fee · Collected up front · Earned on milestonesEvery firm at the Lake says "call for a consultation." This one will publish its prices — a flat fee for every matter, collected up front into trust, earned on a milestone schedule you can read in the agreement. The full rate card goes live on this page the day I'm sworn in. The Launch Letter below gets you one email when it does.
Until licensure, no fees are quoted and no legal services are offered. That's the rule, and rules are sort of the whole business.
New law. One letter.
Missouri's Clean Slate law is real
Automatic expungement is coming to Missouri no later than January 1, 2027. Who it clears, who it skips, and why most people will still need a petition.
Read the breakdown →The Launch Letter
The practice opens in 2027. Leave an email and you'll get exactly one message when I'm sworn in and taking matters — plus first crack at the calendar.
One email. No newsletter. No selling your address to anybody, ever.
You're on the list.
Where this is rooted.
Camdenton · Osage Beach · Lake Ozark · Sunrise Beach · Laurie · Linn Creek · Eldon · Versailles · Tuscumbia — Camden, Miller & Morgan Counties · 26th Judicial Circuit · Missouri expungement guides apply statewide.
Three questions everyone asks.
Can I hire you today?
No — and anyone who'd blur that line shouldn't get your trust later. I sit for the Missouri bar in 2027. Until then this site is educational, the tools are free, and the Launch Letter gets you one email the day the doors open.
Will you ever bill hourly?
Never. Every matter will be a flat fee, published on this page, collected up front into trust, and earned on a milestone schedule written in plain English. The faster my systems work, the better the deal gets — for you, not against you.
Why publish guides before you can take clients?
Because the information is useful now, deadlines don't wait for my swearing-in, and I'd rather you meet the practice through its work than through an ad. If your matter can't wait until 2027, the guides will help you ask any lawyer better questions.