Law School
Cornell University, J.D., 1976
Law School Graduation Year
1976
College
University of Notre Dame, A.B., magna cum laude, 1969; Cornell University, M.B.A., 1976
Memberships
Multnomah and American Bar Associations; Oregon State Bar; Federal Bar Association; Oregon Association of Defense Counsel. [1st Lieutenant, Army Medical Services Corps, Active Duty, 1970-1972 including Ambulance Company Commander and Service Officer, 44th MASH Hospital and Service Officer, 121 Evac Hospital, Camp Yongson, Korea. Brigade Commander, ROTC, University of Notre Dame].
Biographical
Member, Board of Governors, Oregon State Bar, 2003—. Chair, Litigation Section, Oregon State Bar, 1997-1998. Member, Executive Committee, Litigation Section, Oregon State Bar, 1992—. Chair, Planning Committee, Oregon State Bar Litigation Section Institute and Retreat, 1994—. Co-Chair, Commercial and Business Litigation Committee, Litigation Section, American Bar Association, 1999—. Managing Editor, Oregon Commercial Practice Manual, 1988 and 1994 and Oregon Commercial Practice Manual Supplement, 1990. Managing Editor, Litigation Journal, Oregon State Bar, 1992—. Managing Editor, American Bar Association Commercial and Business Litigation newsletter, 1998—. Member, Executive Committee, Debtor/Creditor Section, Oregon State Bar, 1987-1990. Member, U.S. District Court of Oregon Historical Society Board of Directors and Executive Committee, November 1997-1999. Co-Chair, Creditors' Rights Subcommittee, Litigation Section, American Bar Association, 1992-1998. Co-Chair, American Bar Association Discovery Task Force, May 1997-2000. Member, Task Force on Civil Trial Practice Standards, Litigation Section, American Bar Association, 1997-1998. Recipient, Oregon State Bar Membership Service Award, September 1995. Recipient, Membership Service Award, Litigation Section, Oregon State Bar, 1999. Recipient, Membership Service Award, Multnomah Bar Association, May 2000. Faculty Member, National Institute for Trial Advocacy Northwest Deposition Program, August 1996. Master in Owen M. Panner American Inn of Court, August 1996—. Past Chair, Member, Multnomah Bar Association Judicial Screening Committee, June 1997-2000. Speaker: Resurrecting the Smoking Gun--How to Find and Recover Deleted Evidence and Litigating in the 21st Century: The Admissibility and Persuasion of Electronic Evidence, Section of Litigation Annual Meeting, American Bar Association, April, 2003; The Internet Games (mock trial on introduction into evidence of Internet information). American Bar Association Section of Litigation Annual Meeting, April 2002. Spe