Attorney Shares Why He Loves His Career!

13 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this candid monologue, an attorney who was admitted to the bar in 1998 recounts his professional journey. He spent the early part of his career litigating, primarily in insurance defense, representing insurers against injured claimants—a role he found unfulfilling. A referral to Global Legal introduced him to the emerging credit‑card‑processing sector, a field he describes as constantly evolving and educational. Over time, his practice shifted to defending merchants who are placed on the Member Assist/Control High‑Risk list—a blacklist that can cripple a business by blocking payment processing for up to five years. He explains how fighting these unjust listings has become his calling, providing both purpose and satisfaction in his legal work.

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I've been practicing— well, I said I admitted to the bar in '98. I did. I've been doing litigation pretty much the whole time, but for a while, for mostly it was insurance defense, you know, like fighting against injured people. And just as a result, as you can probably guess, I wasn't really enjoying that too much. So I got a referral to this, to Global Legal, and got involved in the credit card processing niche. It's a very new industry. There's not a lot You learn something new about it every day. And a big part of my practice has become trying to get merchants who I feel are unfairly placed on this match list, the Member Assist to Control High Risk list, which if you get on it for whatever reason they think you did, they shut you down for 5 years. You can't get payment processing, puts most merchants out of business. And I really kind of found my calling, I think.