My interest in legal issues was sparked when I began reporting on a variety of topics for Wyoming's state-wide newspaper, the Casper Star-Tribune. My editors were an informed and thoughtful group and led by Ann MacKinnon, a graduate of the University of California College of Law. I covered a variety of topics, including a fascinating legislative reapportionment battle that was fought both in the courts and two sessions of the Wyoming Legislature.

After serving as press secretary for U.S. Senate Minority Whip Alan K. Simpson, I accepted a position as an editor at the cycling publication VeloNews. Remarkably, it was that job that offered me the opportunity to report on more legal issues than I ever had before.

Assigned to make a one-day stop-over at the 1998 Tour de France, I found myself covering the Festina doping scandal. Suddenly my one-day assignment turned into a six weeks of following the case through French Courts and then, in February of 1999, reporting on the creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency. I have been on that beat ever since and have been reporting on the evolution of that body of law for the past 13 years. It was that subject more than any other that prompted me to apply to law school in 2006. I graduated with a Juris Doctorate in 2009 - at the age of 50 - and skipped the July Bar Exam in favor of (what else?) the 2009 Tour de France. I first took the Bar in February of 2010 and found I had passed in April of that year. I was offered a position at the oldest law firm in Laramie, Corthell and King, P.C., and began working with the firm in July, 2010.

I continue to write and edit for VeloNews and produce a weekly column - "The Explainer" - for the magazine's website. The column has evolved over the years and has increasingly focused on the legal issues faced by cyclists at all levels of the sport. Indeed, I was even able to write a column of the esoteric subject of 404(b) evidence for an audience not normally concerned with such questions.

I am married to Diana Denison and we are the proud and happy parents of 16-year-old Philip and 10-year-old Annika (pictured above). We live in a beautiful 115-year-old brick home in Laramie, where we spend much of our free time working to rid it of evidence of that collective lapse in taste otherwise known as the 1950s, `60s and (especially) `70s.