Admitted
1973, Nebraska; 1979, U.S. Supreme Court; 1989, Texas; 1999, Oklahoma; U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
Law School
California Western School of Law, J.D., 1972
Law School Graduation Year
1972
College
Illinois Wesleyan University, B.A., 1965; Naval Justice School, 1968
Memberships
Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Nebraska State and American (Member, Sections on: Corporation, Banking and Business Law; Natural Resources Law; Member, Forum Committee on the Construction Industry, 1975-1980) Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas.
Biographical
Author, Books: How to Counsel Corporate Clients: Ten Reasons Business People Don't Take Legal Advice, And What You Can Do About It, American Law Institute-American Bar Association (ALI-ABA), January 2000; Practice Preventive Corporate Law, ALI-ABA, 1985, Law School Edition, 1986. Author, Articles: Losing Business Clients the Hard Way, ABA Journal; Small Companies and Preventive Law, ACCA Docket; Implementing Preventive Law Programs, Preventive Law Reporter. Employment: Senior Attorney, The Williams Companies, 1997-2002. Of Counsel, Texas Instruments Incorporated, 1997. Assistant General Counsel, Occidental Chemical Corporation, 1988-1996. Corporate Counsel, Peter Kiewet Sons, Inc., 1984-1988. Vice President and General Counsel, Royster Company, 1979-1983. Assistant General Counsel, Fluor, Inc., 1974-1979. Corporate Counsel, Gene Fuller, Inc., 1973-1974. Certified Mediator, Attorney-Mediators Institute. Awarded Preventive Law Prize by the National Center for Preventive Law.
Military
Capt., USMC, 1965-1969