Admitted
1968, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1969, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 1978, U.S. Supreme Court; 1984, U.S. Tax Court
Law School
Harvard University, J.D., 1968; De Paul College of Law, LL.M., in Taxation, 1981
Law School Graduation Year
1981
College
Brown University, A.B., 1965
Memberships
Chicago (Member: Real Property Law Committee, 1973—; Development of the Law Committee, 1981-2000 and Chairman, 1987-1988; Federal Taxation Committee, 1981-1990; Member: Committee on Evaluation of Judicial Candidates, 1969-1980; Younger Members Committee, 1968-1971 and Bar Association Structure Subcommittee Chairman, 1970-1971; Member, Executive Committee; Young Lawyers Section, 1971-1972), Illinois State (Member: Assembly, 1978-1984, 1985-1991, 1992-1998, 1999—; Real Estate Law Section Council, 1980-1987, 1993-1999 and Chairman, 1985-1986, 1997-1998; Vice Chair, Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Law Drafting Committee, 1983-1987; Commercial, Banking and Bankruptcy Law Section Council, 1987-1991 and Chairman, 1989-1990; Public Service Committee, 1977-1978; International Law Section Model Negotiations Project, 1970-1971) Bar Association.
Biographical
Author: Drafting Around the Mortgage ‘Due on Sale' Clause in the Installment Sale of Real Estate, 62 Chicago Bar Record 312, 1981; Beware the New Transfer Tax Declarations, ISBA Real Property, October 1982; Using Not-for-Profit Corporations for Tax-Exempt Financing: Revenue Ruling 63-20 Revisited, 31 De Paul Law Review 533, 1982; Introduction to Proposed Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Act, Chicago Law Bulletin, April 15-19, 1985; Selected Comments About the Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Law, IICLE, March, 1987; Notices of Foreclosure Sales Under The New Law, Chicago Law Bulletin, October 7, 1987; A Robot in Every Job, Analog, September, 1990; Orbituary, Science Fiction Age, March 1994. Director, 1990-1993, 1996—, Board of Advisers, 1993-1996, Editor of Inside NSS, 1994-1997, Vice President, 1996-2000, Sr. Vice President, 2000—, National Space Society. Chairman, 8th International Space Development Conference, 1989.