Admitted
1982, Missouri, U.S. District Court, Western and Eastern Districts of Missouri and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1992, Nevada; U.S. District Court, District of Nevada; 1993, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1995, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth
Law School
University of Missouri at Columbia, J.D., 1982
Law School Graduation Year
1982
College
Southwest Missouri State University, B.A., 1975; Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, M.T.S., summa
Memberships
Springfield Metropolitan, Clark County, Nevada and American (Member, Sections on: Tort and Insurance Practice; Litigation: Chairman, Membership Subcommittee, 1996-1998; Pretrial Practice and Discovery Committee, 1996) Bar Associations; The Missouri Bar (Member, Sections on: Civil Practice and Procedure); Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys (Board of Governors, 1992—; Executive Committee, 2003— Co-chair, Amicus Committee, 1996-2003); Consumer Lawyers of Hawaii; Nevada Trial Lawyers Association; Texas Trial Lawyers Association; Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association; Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys; Indiana Trial Lawyers Association; Georgia Trial Lawyers Association; Western Trial Lawyers Association; Consumer Attorneys of California; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member, Board of Governors, 2001—; Chairman, Products Liability Section; Member, Executive Committee: Products Liability Section, 2002-2003); Washington State Trial Lawyers Association; Kansas Trial Lawyers Association; San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association; Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (Missouri State Coordinator, 1992-2000); Civil Justice Foundation; Roscoe Pound Foundation; American Jury Trial Foundation; American Board of Trial Advocates (Associate); International Society of Primerus Law Firms; Belli Society; International Society of Barristers; American College of Barristers; Society of Automotive Engineers; Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.
Biographical
Phi Alpha Delta. Recipient, Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Missouri at Columbia, 1979. Member, University of Missouri at Columbia Law Review, 1982. Outstanding Young Man of America, 1989. Who's Who Among Outstanding Americans, 1995. Author: Chapter 11, Pretrial-Discovery/Request for Admissions in the Missouri Products Liability Handbook, 1988; Featured Case: McKinley v. Chrysler Motor Corporation, The Missouri Trial Attorney, April 1991; Featured Case: Lupo v. General Motors Corporation, The Missouri Trial Attorney, June 1994; Crashworthiness Cases-Preserving The Evidence, TIPS Committee News, Civil Procedure and Evidence Committee, Spring 1995; Experts: Practical Use Before and During Trial, The Missouri Trial Attorney, December 1995; Air Bag Litigation: A Cause of Action Reborn, The Missouri Trial Attorney, February 1996; Passive Belts, ATLA Products Liability Law Reporter, April 1996; Practical Advice on the Use of Experts Before and During Trial, TIPS Committee News, Civil Procedure and Evidence Committee, Summer 1996; Passive Two-Point Shoulder Belts: The Injuries They Produce, Leader's Product Liability Law and Strategy, October, 1996; Featured Case: Dickerson, et al. v. Martin Stewart and Mazda Motor Corporation, The Missouri Trial Attorney, Winter 1998; Focus Groups in a Crashworthiness Case, ATLA Products Liability, Volume IV, Number 1, Winter 1999; LTVs 'Safer' at What Cost?, Trial, Journal of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, January 2000, co-author William Petrus; Opening the Gates, Trial, Journal of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, June 2000; Litigating Air Bar and Passive Belt Cases After Geier: Preemption, Products Liability Litigation, Product Studies, ATLA Press, Pages 2-110 through 2-129, March, 2001; Preemption Cases since Geier ATLA, Products Liability Section Newsletter, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 2001; The Auto-Safety Preemption War Since Geier, Trial, Journal of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Nov. 2001; Dangerou