Admitted
1982, Pennsylvania; 1991, West Virginia; U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania, Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third, Fifth and Sixth Circuits and U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
Duke University, J.D., 1982
Law School Graduation Year
1982
College
University of Notre Dame, B.A., magna cum laude, 1979 Phi Beta Kappa
Memberships
Allegheny County (Academy of Trial Lawyers, Immediate Past Chair, Civil Litigation Section; Judiciary Committee; Federal Court Section), Pennsylvania (Member, Civil Litigation and Environmental, Mineral and Natural Resource Law Sections, Service to the Public and Alternative Dispute Resolution Committees), West Virginia and American (Member: Litigation Section and Pretrial and Discovery Committees) Bar Associations.
Biographical
Order of the Coif. Member, Duke Law Journal, 1981-1982. Author: The Need For An Additional Notice And Comment Period When Final Rules Differ Substantially From Interim Rules, Duke Law Journal, Issue 2, 1981.