Admitted
1979, Wisconsin; 1980, U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin; 1990, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 1994, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; 1995, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
University of Wisconsin, J.D., cum laude, 1979
Law School Graduation Year
1979
College
Drew University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1976
Memberships
Dane County and American (Member, Sections on: Business Law; Litigation; Intellectual Property) Bar Associations; State Bar of Wisconsin.
Biographical
Pi Sigma Alpha. Member, Wisconsin Law Review, 1977. Law Clerk to Presiding Judge Paul C. Gartzke, Wisconsin Court of Appeals, 1979-1980. Author: Dealing with the Dealers: Scope of the Wisconsin Fair Dealership Law, Wisconsin Bar Bulletin, August, 1981 at 6; Indemnification of Legal Challenges to Recall Proceedings in Wisconsin, 1982, NOLPE School Law Journal, Volume 138, 1982. Contributor, The Law of Education (J. Rapp, Ed., 1984); Penetrating the Iron Curtain: Representing Secured Creditors in Chapter 11 Reorganization Proceedings, 1984 Marquette Law Review 421; Chapter 12, Performance, Breach and Excused Nonperformance, Contract Law in Wisconsin, 1995; Creation, Perfection and Enforcement of Security Interests In Intellectual Property Under Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, The Banking Law Journal, January 2002.