Admitted
1978, Illinois; 1987, Wisconsin, U.S. District Court, Western and Eastern Districts of Wisconsin, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh and Federal Circuits and U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
Northwestern University, J.D., cum laude, 1978
Law School Graduation Year
1978
College
Bradley University and Northwestern University, B.A., 1975
Memberships
National Health Lawyers Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Biographical
Recipient: William J. Bryan, Adlai Stevenson and Lowden-Wigmore Awards; Edwin C. Austin Scholar; Julius Minor Moot Court Finalist. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1977-1978. Law Clerk, Justice Howard C. Ryan, Illinois Supreme Court, 1978-1979. Listed in: Who's Who in American Law; International Who's Who of Professionals/Strathmore's Who's Who; National Register's Who's Who in Executives and Professionals. Co-Author: with B. VanDam, Practical Guidelines for the Use of Legal Resources, chapter 21 in Health Care Law: A Practical Guide (Matthew Bender 1997); with W. Snyder, Analysis of Seventh Circuit's Decision in Blue Cross & Blue Shield United of Wisconsin and Compcare Health Services Insurance Corp. v. Marshfield Clinic and Security Health Plan of Wisconsin, Inc., Vol. 23/No. 10, Health Law Digest, National Health Lawyers Association (Oct. 1995). Author: Antitrust Liability for Denial of Physician Access to Patients, Report of Proceedings on Health Care Antitrust (American Health Lawyers Association and American Bar Association 2001); Antitrust Laws Emerging Exemption-Medical Care, Matthew Bender, Health Law Monthly (July 1997); The Marshfield Clinic Case: A Primer in Conspiracy, Antitrust Health Care Chronicle, American Bar Association, Vol. 9, No. 3 (1995). Professional Appearances and Papers: National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts Forensic Institute, The Litigation Expert's Critical Role in Planning & Strategy, Northbrook, Illinois, August 13, 2001; American Health Lawyers Association/American Bar Association Denial of Access to Managed Care Panels, Washington, DC, May 17-18, 2001; Madison Literary Club, Commentator on Professor John Stevens' paper, The Tuba And Other Things Musical, Madison, Wisconsin, May 14, 2001; American Bar Association: Intellectual Property/Litigation Section Program Chair, Intellectual Property and Antitrust, Chicago, Illinois, February 16, 2000; Wisconsin Department of Justice, Ethics for State Attorneys in Light of J