Admitted
1987, New York; 1988, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1989, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1990, Colorado, U.S. District Court, District of Colorado and U.S. Court of A
Law School
University of Pennsylvania, J.D., 1987
Law School Graduation Year
1987
College
Yale University, B.A., cum laude, 1984
Memberships
Denver, Colorado (Member, Litigation and Patent, Trademark and Copyright Sections), New York State (Member, Trial Lawyers Section) and American (Member, Litigation and Intellectual Property Sections) Bar Associations; Colorado Trial Lawyers Association.
Biographical
Winner: Keedy Cup Moot Court Competition; Richard Marden Davis Award, 2002. Named to Denver Business Journal's Forty Under 40, 2001. Finalist, Pro Bono Attorney of the Year, Denver Business Journal's Best of the Bar edition, 2003. Article Editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1986-1987. Law Clerk to Hon. J. Frederick Motz, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland, 1987-1988. Co-Editor, Civil Evidence Column, Colorado Lawyer, 1992-2001. Editor, Civil Litigator Column, Colorado Lawyer, 1996—. Author: The Strickland Standard for Claims of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: Emasculating the Sixth Amendment in the Guise of Due Process, 134 Univ. of Pa. L. Rev. 1259, 1986; Rule 702: Admissibility of Expert Testimony Regarding Eyewitness Identification, 21 Colo. Law. 927 (1992); Rule 1006: Admissibility of Summary Evidence, 22 Colo. Law. 35 (1993); Rule 501: The Privilege of Self-Critical Analysis, 23 Colo. Law. 1291 (1994); Rule 615: Exclusion of Witnesses, 24 Colo. Law. 1299 (1995); Book Review, Modern Evidence: Doctrine and Practice, 25 Colo. Law. 48 (1996). Co-Author: Chapter on Rule 26, Colorado Civil Procedure Forms and Commentary, Debra Knapp ed. (1996); Rule 606(b): Competency of Jurors as Witnesses, 25 Colo. Law. 47 (1996).