Entertainment & Sports
Jan. 4, 2007
Skateboarding His Way Into the Courtroom
Phil Esbenshade earned money for law school on the professional skateboarder circuit. Now he’s a child-support lawyer for Tulare County. But he hasn’t lost the skateboarder’s disdain for authority. Sometimes he takes a spin in the parking lot or down the hallways of his office building. In court, he eyes the bar rail and thinks, “it’s so smooth. … I could rail-slide that.”
Daily Journal Staff Writer
VISALIA - Golf. Racquetball. Yachting. These come to mind as sports befitting an attorney.
Not for Tulare County child-support lawyer Phil Esbenshade, a.k.a. "Phil E."
Before he was a lawyer, Esbenshade was a well-known professional skateboarder, and now, at 39, he's still riding hard when he's not in court ...
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