Ferris & Britton firm attorney Scott H. Toothacre was recently featured in the Primerus Weekly™ newsletter. Attorney Toothacre was interviewed regarding his career as a lawyer and fledgling business in olive farming and olive oil production. Excerpts can be read below, while the full profile is available via the Primerus™ website.
Throughout law school, Toothacre clerked at his father’s law firm. The day after he passed the bar, he joined his father in a trial that resulted in a $7 million verdict. Over the next 20 years, Toothacre would go on to try more than three-dozen cases with his father at the firm that became Toothacre & Toothacre.
“He was a really good jury trial lawyer. Juries loved him,” says Toothacre of his father’s style. “He was Colombo-esque. He would knock things over, break his glasses. Always something seemed to happen at trial. I used to think he did it on purpose, but I don’t know.”
On olive farming and olive oil production
The venture started as a simple landscaping request.
“My wife said she would like a few olive trees along the driveway,” says Toothacre with a laugh. “She’ll never make that mistake again.”
Instead of a line of trees along the driveway, Toothacre planted more than 100 Tuscan variety olive trees that were three to five years old and sourced from clones of an 800-year-old grove in Lucca, Italy.
The couple took classes at the UC Davis Olive Center at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, which seeks to foster the fledgling olive industry in California. Toothacre earned his Master Olive Miller certificate. Their first crop in 2019 produced 32 bottles of olive oil.
From "Law runs deep in the family of California attorney who doubles as an olive farmer,” by Brian Cox, 2023, Primerus Weekly, January 23rd edition, https://www.primerus.com/law-runs-deep-in-the-family-of-california-attorney-who-doubles-as-an-olive-farmer.htm. Copyright © 2023 by the International Society of Primerus Law Firms. Reprinted with permission.
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