Law School
Vanderbilt University, J.D., 1986
Law School Graduation Year
1986
College
Vanderbilt University, B.E., 1971
Memberships
Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations (Governing Committee of the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, 1997-2000); American College of Construction Lawyers; American Society of Civil Engineers; American Subcontractors Association Attorneys Council (Past-Chair)
Biographical
Registered Engineer, Tennessee, 1992. Co-Author: Proving Damages: Loss of Profits Resulting from Loss of Bonding Capacity, 1 Construction Law Adviser, April, 1983; Protecting the Contractor's Expectation Interest After the Owner's Substantial Breach, 6 ABA Construction Lawyer, October, 1985; The ‘Pay When-Paid'/‘Pay-if-Paid' Dichotomy and the Florida Trilogy -- Bright Line or Murky Fog, 11 ABA Construction Lawyer, October, 1991; Money, Money, Money: Legal and Ethical Dilemmas in the Construction Payment Process, 316 ABA Construction Lawyer, Jan. 1996; Design-Build Contracting Claims , Aspen Law & Business 1999. Author: Design/Build in the Public and Private Sectors-Its Expansion in the Private Sector, University of Kentucky, 1998; Controlling Construction Project Conflict Through Contract Dispute Avoidance and Resolution Amendments, University of Kentucky, 2000, ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, (Annual Meeting Paper) 1997; A Simplified Approach to Preference Calculations-Section 547 (c) (4) of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 and the ‘At Risk’ Rule, 61 American Bankr. L.J. 255, 1987; Minimum Decencies -- A Proposed Resolution of the ‘Pay-When-Paid'/‘Pay-if-Paid' Dichotomy, 12 ABA Construction Lawyer, January, 1992. Contract Changes and Claims Manual for Subcontractors Project Managers, Estimators and Supervisors, Foundation of the American Subcontractors Association, 1994. Fellow, American College of Construction Lawyers.