Admitted
1980, Minnesota and U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota; 1991, South Dakota; 2002, Wisconsin
Law School
St. Louis University, J.D., 1980
Law School Graduation Year
1980
College
Stanford University, B.A., 1977
Memberships
Hennepin County (Member, Criminal Committee, 1982—) and Minnesota State (Chair, Criminal Section, 1993-1994; Editor-in-Chief, Criminal Law News) Bar Associations; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Minnesota Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Minnesota Society for Criminal Justice (President, 1988).
Biographical
Recipient, Fairclough Book Award. Law Clerk: Rhode Island Attorney General, 1978; Law Office of Thomas R. Green, St. Louis, Missouri, 1978-1980. Chosen a Best Lawyer in America in the Woodward/White Peer Survey. Selected as a Super Lawyer and named among the State's top 100 lawyers in all fields by the Minnesota Journal of Law & Politics, 2001. Author: The Drinking Driver in Minnesota, (Lexis); Victims Rights: Trial by Tribulation Bench and Bar, 1995; Disorder in the Court: Probation Violations in Minnesota, Challenger, Summer, 1993; Criminal Defense for the Non-Specialist, Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association, March, 1989; DWI Sentencing: A Review of Defense Strategies and Alternatives, DWI Journal, December, 1989. Faculty: Criminal Justice Institute; Minnesota Traffic Law Institute; Judicial Trial Skills Training Program, University of Minnesota Law School. Adjunct Professor, William Mitchell School of Law. Advisor, American Bar Association Criminal Trial Competition, Hamline University School of Law. Commentator: WCCO Radio; Minnesota Public Radio. Referee, Hennepin County District Court, Conciliation Court, 1985—. Arbitrator, Hennepin County District Court, 1986-1990. Appointed: Federal Defender, Criminal Justice Act; Supervising Attorney, Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board; Neutral Fact Finder, Carver County District Court. (Certified as a Criminal Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy)