Admitted
1991, Michigan and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; 1995, U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1997, U.S. Supreme Court; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
Law School
Wayne State University, J.D., magna cum laude, 1991
Law School Graduation Year
1991
College
Columbia University, A.B., summa cum laude, 1965; Trinity College, Cambridge, England, M.A., 1967
Memberships
State Bar of Michigan.
Biographical
Order of the Coif. Articles Editor, Wayne Law Review, 1990-1991. Author: Prescription Contraceptives: A Benefit Whose Time Has Come, Managed Care Magazine, October 2001; HIPAA for Employers, Insider Business Journal, August 2001; Wrestling the Giant Squid: The Independence of the Duty of Fair Representation Claim, 36 Wayne L. Rev. 1237 (1990); The Bumpy Road of Trucking Company ESOPS, The Employee Ownership Report, Vol. 8, No. 3, May/June 1988. Co-Author: Chapter 300: Preemption of State Law, HIPAA Patient Privacy Compliance Guide, with L. S. Ross and C. Reaves, Atlantic Information Services, Inc., April 2003; Standard Unique Employer Identifier, with L. S. Ross, Special Member HIPAA Briefing Collection, American Health Lawyers Association, September 2002; HIPAA and State Law Preemption -- Anatomy of the Michigan Analysis, with L. S. Ross, C. Wisner and J. Berent, Michigan Health Law Report: A Publication of the Health Care Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan, Summer 2002; HIPAA Privacy Rule Preemption Analysis Matrix for Michigan Law, Member of Task Force sponsored by the Michigan State Bar Health Care Law Section and the Michigan Society of Health Care Lawyers that prepared the Preemption Matrix, April 2002; Recent Developments in Employee Benefits, with S. Siebert, State Bar of Michigan, 1997; A User's Guide to HIPAA, with J. Eggertsen, Self-Insurer's Publishing Corp., 1996; What Michigan's Medical Child Support Law Means for Domestic Relations Attorneys, with J. Eggertsen, Michigan Bar Journal, July 1996; Qualified Medical Child Support Orders: Putting Employers in Loco Parentis for Health Care Coverage, with J. Eggertsen, Innovations in Human Resources, March 1994; Taxes and the Independent Contractor, Parts I & II, with J. Novis, PT Magazine, March and May, 1993.