David spent over 20 years practicing law, more than a decade of it running his own firm, with a focus on estate planning and trust and estate litigation. A career spent sitting across the table from people during some of the harder moments of their lives taught him what clients actually need from the person they've hired: straight answers, not jargon, and someone who follows through.

His path into law was not the obvious one. He worked in information technology both before and during law school, moving through several technical roles before setting the field aside to practice law full time. He never fully left it behind, though; for the past 30 years he's written code to automate processes for his business and for personal use, occasionally taking on paid software commissions.

He also pursued two graduate degrees in theology and spent several years in pastoral ministry, which says less about his résumé than about a habit of mind: he tends not to consider a subject settled until he genuinely understands it, whether that subject is a contract, a piece of software, or a passage of scripture. Both careers, in their own way, came down to the same thing: showing up for people when it actually mattered to them.

That combination is what he brings to Convergent Design: legal judgment, small business experience, technical fluency, and a preference for getting things right over simply getting them done.