Experience

Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen

• United States
• Law Practice
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Shareholder

  • 2014 - Present



Sinn Oil Company

• East Peoria, IL

• Vice President

  • 1976 - 1979

  When I graduated from Law School my father offered to turn the family business over to me and to my surprise I took him up on it. It occurred to me then that I had the rest of my life to practice law and he had a buyer waiting in the wings so it wasn't as if it was something I could fall back on if law proved not to my tastes. I'm glad it worked out that way. He bowed out and left me to manage a business small in staff but large in revenues. Dealing with every aspect of managing a business… Show more When I graduated from Law School my father offered to turn the family business over to me and to my surprise I took him up on it. It occurred to me then that I had the rest of my life to practice law and he had a buyer waiting in the wings so it wasn't as if it was something I could fall back on if law proved not to my tastes. I'm glad it worked out that way. He bowed out and left me to manage a business small in staff but large in revenues. Dealing with every aspect of managing a business gave me even greater satisfaction with being a trial lawyer where I only have one task to concentrate on. Wearing only one hat per day lets you drill down to the point that you're pretty comfortable that no else on the task has any unseen leverage over you. It was quite a few years before I made as much money in law as I did in petroleum wholesaling but even with hindsight I'd do it the same way all over again. Show less When I graduated from Law School my father offered to turn the family business over to me and to my surprise I took him up on it. It occurred to me then that I had the rest of my life to practice law and he had a buyer waiting in the wings so it wasn't as if it was something I could fall back on if law proved not to my tastes. I'm glad it worked out that way. He bowed out and left me to manage a business small in staff but large in revenues. Dealing with every aspect of managing a business… Show more When I graduated from Law School my father offered to turn the family business over to me and to my surprise I took him up on it. It occurred to me then that I had the rest of my life to practice law and he had a buyer waiting in the wings so it wasn't as if it was something I could fall back on if law proved not to my tastes. I'm glad it worked out that way. He bowed out and left me to manage a business small in staff but large in revenues. Dealing with every aspect of managing a business gave me even greater satisfaction with being a trial lawyer where I only have one task to concentrate on. Wearing only one hat per day lets you drill down to the point that you're pretty comfortable that no else on the task has any unseen leverage over you. It was quite a few years before I made as much money in law as I did in petroleum wholesaling but even with hindsight I'd do it the same way all over again. Show less



McDonough District Hospital

• Macomb, IL

• EMT

  • 1971 - 1973

  I always knew I was an adrenalin junky at some level but being an EMT married my then interest in becoming a physician to provide experiences that play back pretty regularly like some sort of benign PTSD. I still feel pain for some of the patients we helped but at the end of every day the level of satisfaction was pretty high. It was a fabulous set up because when we weren't out on ambulance runs or helping in the ER I was able to administer admitting EKGs but also doing many of the more… Show more I always knew I was an adrenalin junky at some level but being an EMT married my then interest in becoming a physician to provide experiences that play back pretty regularly like some sort of benign PTSD. I still feel pain for some of the patients we helped but at the end of every day the level of satisfaction was pretty high. It was a fabulous set up because when we weren't out on ambulance runs or helping in the ER I was able to administer admitting EKGs but also doing many of the more mundane things a CNA level nurse would do. One minute everyone at a trauma site is treating you like you're some kind of brain surgeon and an hour later you're cleaning up a pediatric or geriatric patient who just messed the bed something awful. To steal a few lines from The Beatles: "In My Life" Those were the days". Show less I always knew I was an adrenalin junky at some level but being an EMT married my then interest in becoming a physician to provide experiences that play back pretty regularly like some sort of benign PTSD. I still feel pain for some of the patients we helped but at the end of every day the level of satisfaction was pretty high. It was a fabulous set up because when we weren't out on ambulance runs or helping in the ER I was able to administer admitting EKGs but also doing many of the more… Show more I always knew I was an adrenalin junky at some level but being an EMT married my then interest in becoming a physician to provide experiences that play back pretty regularly like some sort of benign PTSD. I still feel pain for some of the patients we helped but at the end of every day the level of satisfaction was pretty high. It was a fabulous set up because when we weren't out on ambulance runs or helping in the ER I was able to administer admitting EKGs but also doing many of the more mundane things a CNA level nurse would do. One minute everyone at a trauma site is treating you like you're some kind of brain surgeon and an hour later you're cleaning up a pediatric or geriatric patient who just messed the bed something awful. To steal a few lines from The Beatles: "In My Life" Those were the days". Show less