Admitted
1976, Illinois; 1979, California; 1996, Oregon
Law School
Northwestern University, J.D., summa cum laude, 1976
Law School Graduation Year
1976
College
Princeton University, A.B., 1971
Biographical
Order of the Coif. Member, Northwestern University Law Review. Law Clerk to Judge Wilbur F. Pell, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 1976-1978. Associate, Latham & Watkins, 1979-1983. Associate (2 years) and then Partner-in-Charge, Business Litigation Practice Groups, Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, Los Angeles and San Francisco, 1983-1995. Publications: Alternative Dispute Resolution: Why All the Fuss? Employment & Benefits Review, July 1996; Employment ‘at Will’, Employers at Risk, Prentice Hall Law & Business; Making Sense of Robinson-Patman, 62 Va. L. Rev. 1211; Defamation Law in the Wake of Gertz, 69 N.W.U.L.Rev. Lecturer: ABA Litigation Section Annual Meeting, 1994 (video technology in trials); 28th and 26th Corporate Counsel Institutes (employment); California State Bar Convention, 1988 (employment). Member, American Arbitration Association National Panel of Commercial Arbitrators.