Law & Disorder - Meet The Crew

Ken is a recent resident of Tucson AZ. He moved here from Dallas, TX where he founded the DFW Gun Range and Training Center, a highly acclaimed firearms training center. He also owned 3 different nightclubs (including a topless club and a swingers bar). He is also a practicing trial lawyer who has represented clients in high profile murders, drug trafficking and public corruption cases. Ken spent many years defending himself on the streets first as a young runaway and drug abuser and then as a social worker with hard-core delinquents. Ken has been the subject of an ABC Television documentary and guest appeared on the Phil Donohue show. In addition he has been interviewed/featured on most major national news shows for a variety of issues.

In his own words: I am 54 years old. I got this old by being very street smart. From the age of 13 to 18, I spent most of my time in the streets of the south side of Chicago, as a runaway from a physically abusive dad. While my family was affluent, I chose to live in poverty and crime, sometimes living in the basements of apartment buildings and churches. When I got older I became a youth worker and specialized in working with the toughest kids I could find in the streets. I even created a not for profit agency so I could hire myself because no one else would hire a high school dropout to work with kids. Although I dropped out of high school I eventually received a GED, high school equivalency when I was 18. I didn't see the inside of a classroom again until 11 years later when I began college. I spent 2 years in college, then at the age of 33, I entered law school. During that period, in 1982, I had to stop in Detox for substance abuse.

During school I continued to work as a social worker with high risk populations in the inner city. My own experiences as a street urchin and a drug abuser made me feel drawn back to the streets to do my job. After law school I started my own law office. That way I could stay with what I had come to know the best. The streets! I have learned most of the tricks of survival by always bringing my work to the streets and the streets to my work. I have been in numerous life and death encounters, including being shot at a few times. I have been in several handgun encounters, but I have never had to shoot someone nor have I been shot. I believe it is better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. I have seen hate and most of its permutations. I am too old to rock and roll and too young to die.

I am licensed to practice law in 3 states, Texas, Arizona and Illinois. I studied law with some of the best trial lawyers in America including Gerry Spence, Racehorse Haynes, Roy Black and Morris Dees (the founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the KKK Watch). I have represented clients in all types of criminal cases including first degree murder charges.

I studied firearms with some of the best also. Thunder Ranch, Gunsite, Halo, and the Executive Protection Institute. I have been instructing formally for several years and I was licensed by the state of Texas to teach security officers, and the Concealed Handgun Licensing class.

I was a Big Brother of Chicago for over 10 years and became a foster parent to a young man I was appointed to represent on criminal charges in the juvenile court in Chicago.
But most important, my range was the home to the machine gun used in the film Scarface with Al Pacino. The gun is usually referred to as My Little Friend.

The idea for the show Law and Disorder came from my years of being interviewed by the media and seeing the butchered (edited) results that actually aired. I am also tired of the pitiful portrayal of gun owners in the press. It has been poor advocacy that has been offered by the gun gurus who use sound bites rather than reasoned thought as the means to influence America. Along the way I have also discovered that drug users, adult entertainers, tattooists and their customers have all been poorly treated and ill represented in public debates and legislative sessions. So now I undertake to represent myself and those like me. And as the old saying goes, "a lawyer who represents himself, has a fool for a client."