Admitted
1982, Missouri; 1997, Kansas; U.S. District Court, District of Kansas
Law School
University of Illinois, J.D., magna cum laude, 1982
Law School Graduation Year
1982
College
University of Missouri-Columbia, A.B., magna cum laude, 1978; University of Illinois, M.S., 1979
Memberships
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (Chair, Employee Benefits Committee, 1992); American Bar Association (Member, Employee Benefits Committee, Taxation Section and Labor and Employment Law Section)
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa; Pi Mu Epsilon; Order of the Coif. Author: Covenants Not to Compete, Vol. 7, No. 4, Journal of Deferred Compensation 1, Summer 2002; Executive Compensation and Severance Pay Litigation (Part II), Vol. 6, No. 4, Journal of Deferred Compensation 57, Summer, 2001; Executive Compensation and Severance Pay Litigation (Part 1), Vol. 6, No. 3, Journal of Deferred Compensation 14, Spring 2001; Employee Benefits in Mergers and Acquisitions (Part II), Vol. 26, No. 1, Journal of Pension Planning & Compliance 51, Spring 2000; Employee Stock Ownership Plans (Part II), Vol. 25, No. 4, Journal of Pension Planning & Compliance 1, Winter 2000; Employee Benefits in Mergers and Acquisitions (Part I), Vol. 25, No. 4, Journal of Pension Planning & Compliance 63, Winter 2000; Employee Stock Ownership Plans (Part I), Vol. 25, No. 3 Journal of Pension Planning & Compliance 1, Fall 1999; Criminal Law and Employee Benefit Plans: Is There Cause for Worry, Vol. 4, No. 4, Journal of Deferred Compensation 39, Summer 1999; Shrinking the Workforce: Window and Severance Programs, Vol. 3, No. 4, Journal of Deferred Compensation 20, Summer 1998; Reasonable Compensation: When Is There an Issue? 11 Benefits Law Journal 57, Sprint 1998; Family Disputes: When Not to Follow a Plan's Terms! 5 ERISA & Benefits Law Journal 171, 1998; Reporting USERRA ‘Makeup’ Contributions, 5 Pension Plan Administrator 7, July 1998; Split-dollar Life Insurance: Is it Still Viable? 4 ERISA and Benefits Law Journal 227, 1996; State Taxation of Former Residents' Pensions, 3 Pension Plan Administrator 7, November 1996; Pension Administrators and the Unauthorized Practice of Law, 2 Pension Plan Administrator 7, May 1995 (Part I), and 2 Pension Plan Administrator 7, June 1995 (Part II); Window Programs - Through the Looking Glass, 7 The Corporate Analyst 111, May 1995. Also published at 24 Employee Benefits Counselor 10, 1995 (Part I), and 25 Employee Benefits Counselor 11, 1995 (Part II); ERISA Preemption of S