William “Goose” Changose co-founded the Natural State Law Firm in 2015. His practice areas include business law, veterans’ benefits, real estate zoning, aviation, and firearms law. Prior to opening Natural State Law full-time in 2018, Goose was the President of Westrock Coffee Roasting and the Chief Operating Officer of four Little Rock companies. He also served as a board member of Bear State Bank and Bear State Financial, Inc. Before his time as a civilian, he served for 23 years as an officer and pilot in the US Air Force, culminating his career as the Commander of Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, Hawaii. A tireless proponent for his clients, Goose’s success in both the private sector and military provide a breadth of experience that allows him to bring common sense and order into some of the most complex issues.

Upon graduation from law school, Tom was commissioned as an officer in the Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. For the next eight years, he served primarily as a criminal defense attorney in Texas, Germany, and Kansas. In 2003, Tom left active duty to take an appointment as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Cheyenne, Wyoming, but continued serving in the Army Reserves as a defense attorney. In late 2005, Tom was recalled to active duty in the army specifically to represent alleged al Qaeda propagandist Ali Hamza al Bahlul of Yemen. Tom spent roughly two years in the Office of Military Commissions in Washington, D.C. During this time, he made appearances before a military commission in Guantanamo Bay, until ultimately convincing Congress to afford detainees choice of counsel. Tom was profiled in the August 2007 edition of GQ in a story titled, “The Defense Will Not Rest,” and has been an outspoken critic and public commentator on the use of special military trials for terrorist suspects. A veteran of nearly 100 felony jury trials, Tom has achieved dozens of acquittals for criminal defendants. He is a member of both the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Wyoming Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. Tom is licensed in Iowa, Wyoming, and Colorado.  

After graduating from college at Yale, he moved to New York City, working at various jobs in the music industry, forming a band, and spending several years touring the country and recording albums. Throughout this period, his interest in the law was nurtured by a side job as a trial assistant in the hormone therapy litigation, In re: Prempro Products Liability Litigation, Case No. MDL 1507. While attending Bowen, he co-founded the Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service, an online, interdisciplinary publication for which he served as Editor-in-Chief. He oversaw the Journal’s inaugural symposium, as well as a variety of community engagement efforts. In its first year, the Journal published submissions from authors throughout the world. Now an associate at Carney Bates & Pulliam, David’s principal focus is on consumer protection, with an emphasis on data privacy and data security. Extending his advocacy beyond litigation, he also organized a cyber safety training summit for Arkansas law enforcement and victim assistance professionals, in conjunction with the National Organization of Victim Assistance (NOVA). In addition to his work in the class action context, David is a member of the Volunteers Organization, Center for Arkansas Legal Services (VOCALS), an organization committed to pro bono advocacy.