A law degree, a content company, and a cello.
Three things that were never supposed to fit together on one page.
David Arato, JD.
I earned my law degree from Saint Louis University School of Law. I never practiced.
Law school taught me how to read a contract, build an argument, and think like the people I’d end up writing for. Somewhere in that process I realized the thing I actually wanted to build wasn’t a practice. It was a way to help law firms explain what they do well enough that clients could find them.
Lexicon Legal Content, founded 2012.
A content company built specifically for law firms, run by someone who understands both the law and the writing.
Most content agencies treat legal clients like any other industry. Lexicon does the opposite: every writer, every article, every strategy starts from the assumption that legal content has to be accurate first and persuasive second. That’s the whole differentiator, and it’s why the company has lasted this long.
Playing since I was six.
Long before Lexicon existed, I was in a practice room somewhere in the Midwest, working through scales.
I studied with a run of notable teachers over the years: John Sant’Ambrogio, Marc Johnson, Ron Leonard, Charles Wendt, and Tanya Carey. I played with the Cedar Rapids Symphony (now Orchestra Iowa), the Quad Cities Symphony, and The Muny Orchestra, and spent plenty of hours doing studio work at Phat Buddha and SmithLee Productions.
These days I teach private students and play with bands doing Americana and covers, and I collaborate regularly with other local artists in Breckenridge, Colorado. It’s the same instinct that built Lexicon, honestly: take something with real craft behind it and find a way to keep doing it well, in public, for a long time.
Whichever reason brought you here, I’d like to hear from you.
Podcast booking, working with Lexicon, or a question about lessons and collaborations.
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