Following graduation from Colorado Law, Blake served as a law clerk for Judges Marcelo Kopcow and Shannon Lyons in Colorado’s 19th Judicial District where he drafted orders covering a wide spectrum of areas including business litigation, oil & gas disputes, real estate cases, and various economic torts.  Prior to law school, Blake worked as a coal miner at the Black Thunder Coal Mine in Wright, Wyoming for nearly two years.  Before that, Blake worked as an analytical chemist in a plant biochemistry laboratory at Washington State University where he researched plant metabolic pathways.