Year Joined Firm 1979
Bar Admissions Iowa, 1979 U.S. District Court Northern District of Iowa U.S. District Court Southern District of Iowa U.S. District Court Western District of Wisconsin, 1989
Education Drake University Law School, Des Moines, Iowa J.D. with honors - 1979 Honors: Order of the Coif Law Review: Drake Law Review, Associate Case Notes Editor, 1978 - 1979 The University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa B.A. - 1976
Published Works The NFL-AFL Merger: Law, Politics, and The Power of Money, Sports and the Law: Major Legal Cases, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996 You Deserve a Brick Today: Products Liability Law and McDonald's Coffee, Historic Court Cases: An Encyclopedia, Second Edition Routledge Publishing, 2001 When the Thing Speaks for Itself: Res Ispa Loquitur and Proof of Negligence, Historic Court Cases: An Encyclopedia, Second Edition, Routledge Publishing, 2001
Professional Associations and Memberships American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers, Fellow American Board of Trial Advocates, Fellow Iowa Association for Justice, Member, 1979 - Present Iowa Association for Justice, Governor at Large, 1987 - 1990 Iowa Association for Justice, Parliamentarian, 1990 - 1991 Iowa Association for Justice, Secretary, 1991 - 1992 Iowa Association for Justice, Vice-President for Legislation, 1992 - 1993 Iowa Association for Justice, President-Elect, 1993 - 1994 Iowa Association for Justice, President, 1994 - 1995 American Association for Justice, Member, 1980 - Present American Bar Association, Member, 1979 - Present Iowa State Bar Association, Member, 1979 - Present Black Hawk County Bar Association, Member, 1979 - Present Iowa State Judicial Nominating Commission, Member, 2009 - 2013 Iowa Law PAC (Political Action Committee of the Iowa State Bar Association), Member Justice for All PAC (Political Action Committee of the Iowa Association for Justice), Member
