Frederic George Ludwig III — known more commonly as Eric — states flatly, “I’m boring. I work all the time. I don’t do anything else.”

Yet press him, and he will admit he has “traveled half the world,” including on an African safari. And that he and his father are taking his mother salmon fishing in British Columbia for her birthday.

He will acknowledge a fondness for good food and wine and reveal that his favorite restaurant is El Bizcocho in Rancho Bernardo, his home community. “The food is excellent,” he says, “and it’s like being with family.” He will talk about his daily long strenuous physical workouts.

He will discuss his job for six years as an intellectual property and litigation attorney with Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch. He will describe a six week leave of absence from the firm last year so he could volunteer as a prosecutor in the district attorney’s office.

But what he might not say is that he does all that from a wheelchair. Ludwig was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bones. “When I was a kid,” he says, “I could cough and break a rib or roll over in bed and break an arm.”

Born in Beeville, Texas, he graduated from San Pasqual High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics, magna cum laude, from USD, where he was ranked first in his class in the school of business. He graduated from the UCLA School of Law. His grandparents and parents all live in San Diego now. Although the men have the same name they avoided confusion. Besides Eric, his grandfather is known as Fred and his father as Rick.