Admitted
1969, Washington; 1973, District of Columbia; 1994, Minnesota
Law School
University of Washington, J.D., 1969
Law School Graduation Year
1969
College
Stanford University, B.S., 1966
Memberships
Minnesota State, Washington State (Member, Court Rules and Procedures Committee, 1980-1984; Bar Examiner, 1985-1994) and American (Chair, Toxic and Hazardous Substances and Environmental Law Committee, Tort and Insurance Practice Section, 1992-1993; Member, Standing Committee on Professionalism, Tort and Insurance Practice Section, 1993-1996) Bar Associations; The District of Columbia Bar.
Biographical
Order of the Coif. Comment Editor, Washington Law Review, 1968-1969. Author: Mediation as a Facilitative Process, CPR Spring Meeting (CPR 2002); Settlement: Strategic Considerations, Civil Pre-Trial Practice Institute, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, 2001; Enhancing Self-Determination in Mediation: A Client's Perspective, Collaboration in the Capital: The Power of ADR (ABA 2001); Preparing for Mediation: A Client's Perspective, ADR by the Bay (ABA 2000); Creating Opportunities to Avoid Litigation, Corporate Counsel Institute (Minnesota Institute of Legal Education 2000); with J. Rizzardi, Effects of Bankruptcy on Environmental Liabilities, 28 Tort & Insurance Law Journal 636 (1993); Selective Preparation and Budgeting Can Cut Litigation Costs, Corporate Legal Times, May 1994, at 13; Chapter on Washington Law, in Products Liability Defenses: A State-by-State Compendium, (Davidson Ream ed., 1992); Evidence Supporting Recoverable Damages for Potential Disease, 24 Tort & Insurance Law Journal 39 (1988). Judge Pro Tempore: Seattle Municipal Court, 1979-1987; King County Superior Court, 1983-1994. Co-Chair, National Institute on Pollution Liability, ABA and Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 1988. Principal, Betts Patterson & Mines, Seattle, Washington, 1986-1994. Associate, 1969-1972 and Principal, 1973-1986, Garvey Schubert & Barer, Seattle, Washington.