Admitted
1985, Maryland; 1986, District of Columbia and Virginia
Law School
Yale University, J.D., 1984
Law School Graduation Year
1984
College
University of Kansas, B.A., summa cum laude, 1972
Memberships
The District of Columbia Bar; Maryland State Bar Association, Inc.; Virginia State Bar; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D. C. (Member, Board of Governors).
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa; Harlan Fiske Stone Prize; C. LaRue Munson Prize; Potter Stewart Prize. Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1984. Law Clerk, Honorable Gerhard A. Gesell, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, 1984-1985. Recipient, Lawyer of the Year, 1995, Trial Lawyers Association of Washington, D.C. Author: You Have the Right to Remain Silent (Miranda After 20 Years), The American Scholar, Summer 1986; Failure to Diagnose Impending Heart Attack, 1 Am. Jur. Proof of Facts 3d. 691, 1988; Discovery in Pharmaceutical Products Liability Cases, Trial, March 1996; A Trial Lawyer Sings Psalms, Litigation, Summer 1997. Teaching Assistant, Legal Writing and Research, Yale Law School, 1983.