When he gave up, he began working at the Chalos & Brown firm where his father, maritime criminal defender Michael Chalos, was a leading partner. He realised within his first year that he had found his career calling. After all, the law stimulated the same competitive drive that drew him to hockey, and he became addicted.
“You’re in a different sort of aspect of your life but the same competitive stuff comes out, and you want to be the best you can, and then you add the adversarial nature of litigation,” he says.
