Admitted
1988, Ohio and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio; 1989, Pennsylvania, U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania and U.S. Court of Appeals, Third and Sixth Circuits; 1990, U.S. Court of the Armed Forces; 1998, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
University of Pittsburgh, J.D., magna cum laude, 1988
Law School Graduation Year
1988
College
Point Park College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1980; Point Park College, M.A., summa cum laude, 1985
Memberships
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations.
Biographical
Order of the Coif. Winner: W. Edward Sell Award for highest grade in corporations; Herman L. Foreman Award for highest grade in labor law. Recipient, Best Brief Award, Appellate Moot Court Competition. Senior Editor, Journal of Law & Commerce, University of Pittsburgh. Author: Employers Minefield, Employees' Opportunity; Courts Now Give Teeth to Employer's Burden in Employment Discrimination Actions, Pa. Law Weekly 12, July 3, 2001; Replacement No Longer Element of Employment Discrimination Prima Facie Case, Lawyers J., Vol. 2, No. 22, 2000; Third Circuit Slowly Expanding Scope of Relevant Discrimination Evidence, Pennsylvania Law Weekly, June 3, 1997; Congress Overrules Leading Supreme Court Case on Admissibility of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Litigation, Pittsburgh Legal Journal, November 1, 1994. Speaker: Employment Discrimination Law and Litigation, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, 1996-2002. Previous Employment: Schwartz Kelm Warren & Rubenstein.
Military
SP4, Army, 1970-1972