Year Joined Firm
1979
Bar Admissions
- Iowa, 1979
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Iowa
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Iowa
- U.S. District Court Western District of Wisconsin, 1989
Education
- Drake University Law School, Des Moines, Iowa
- J.D. with honors - 1979
- Honors: Order of the Coif
- Law Review: Drake Law Review, Associate Case Notes Editor, 1978 - 1979
- The University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
Published Works
- The NFL-AFL Merger: Law, Politics, and The Power of Money, Sports and the Law: Major Legal Cases, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996
- You Deserve a Brick Today: Products Liability Law and McDonald's Coffee, Historic Court Cases: An Encyclopedia, Second Edition Routledge Publishing, 2001
- When the Thing Speaks for Itself: Res Ispa Loquitur and Proof of Negligence, Historic Court Cases: An Encyclopedia, Second Edition, Routledge Publishing, 2001
Professional Associations and Memberships
- American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow
- Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers, Fellow
- American Board of Trial Advocates, Fellow
- Iowa Association for Justice, Member, 1979 - Present
- Iowa Association for Justice, Governor at Large, 1987 - 1990
- Iowa Association for Justice, Parliamentarian, 1990 - 1991
- Iowa Association for Justice, Secretary, 1991 - 1992
- Iowa Association for Justice, Vice-President for Legislation, 1992 - 1993
- Iowa Association for Justice, President-Elect, 1993 - 1994
- Iowa Association for Justice, President, 1994 - 1995
- American Association for Justice, Member, 1980 - Present
- American Bar Association, Member, 1979 - Present
- Iowa State Bar Association, Member, 1979 - Present
- Black Hawk County Bar Association, Member, 1979 - Present
- Iowa State Judicial Nominating Commission, Member, 2009 - 2013
- Iowa Law PAC (Political Action Committee of the Iowa State Bar Association), Member
- Justice for All PAC (Political Action Committee of the Iowa Association for Justice), Member
