Rotary President Phil Dabney discusses career path into law at Tuesday Rotary Club meeting. Photo by Linda Hull

ROTARY News:

During the weekly meeting, Tuesday Jan. 21, Rotary Club President Phil Dabney described his career path into law beginning with his studies at Northern Illinois University (DeKalb) where he was a journalism student. 

After interviewing Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun for a student newspaper feature, Dabney, who also had become friends with the University’s Dean of the College of Law, decided to go into the legal field.

He began practicing in 1986, first in Illinois and then in Las Vegas, Nev., where commercial and construction law was growing as quickly as the desert city itself. Dabney expanded his expertise into arbitration and mediation.

Upon moving to Los Alamos, Dabney began practicing with Reid Griffith in 2016, establishing his own general law practice upon Griffith’s retirement.

In addition to being an attorney, Dabney also served as a judge for the Justice Court in Nevada.