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Casey Davis
I started off my career when I was 23 teaching 6th grade reading at Carpenter Elementary School in Plano, having just finished my student teaching at Carlisle Elementary School in Plano. The next year I taught 3rd grade at Stultz Road Elementary in Richardson. I started studying for the LSAT law school admission test after my second year of teaching. My mother is an attorney and has been practicing in Plano for 30 years, and as much as I loved teaching, I was very excited to purse the practice of law. During law school I obtained internships in three areas of law that were of interest to me, criminal law, school law and family law, to help me evaluate which path was right for me. When I secured my criminal law internship at the Denton County District Attorney’s Office I was sold!

Criminal law was very similar to teaching in that I felt as if I could really help people and families through my work and that was always a driving force for me. Through Juvenile criminal law I have found a way to continue working with children and their parents, which I really enjoy. Over the years, I have learned that practicing criminal defense successfully requires a great deal of passion, compassion, empathy, sympathy and caretaking.

My job also requires measured responses, a calm nature, the ability to listen intently for long periods of time, to evaluate different perspectives, to respect different perspectives, to work long hard hours, to analyze and pay attention to very small details, to put together a good plan and a good team, to investigate thoroughly, to persuade, to negotiate and then to be able to walk away from work and have fun and relax. The pay off, when a case is resolved well, and a client is happy or relieved, is priceless. Not all resolutions are happy in my line of work, but that is when I work hard to be a strong, steady and knowledgeable presence to help my client find their way through a rough time.