"The ideals that have lighted my way ... have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth."

-Albert Einstein

 


RESUME

 

Education  
Ongoing Law and Mediation Courses
July 2004 CDR Associates, Boulder CO
Certificate of Completion, The Mediation Process
1973-1976

Chicago Kent College of Law
J.D. June, 1976 With Honors

  • Dean's List
  • Editor-in-Chief, Law Review
  • Notes and Comments Editor,Law Review
  • Member, Moot Court Honor Society
  • Awarded Membership Bar and Gavel Society
  • American Jurisprudence Award for outstanding
    overall legal scholarship - senior year
  • Selected for national trial competition
  • Partial scholarship - senior year
1971-1973

University of Illinois, Chicago Circle B.A. 1973

  • With Distinction / GPA: 4.75
  • Major: Criminal Justice/ Minor: Mathematics
  • Full scholarship

Experience
2/06 to Present Co-Director (Volunteer position) Colorado and Denver Bar Association
Court-Annexed Mediation Project (CAMP)
6/05 to Present Mediation Coach/As Needed
Coaching student mediators in role play situations

11/04 to Present

Mediator, Denver, Colorado
4/90 to Present

Attorney, Sole Practitioner, Denver, Colorado

  • Commercial Loan Transactions and Workouts
  • Commercial Litigation and Collections
  • Real Estate Litigation and Transactions
  • Employment and Other Civil Litigation
  • Creditor Representation
1/89 to 4/90

Attorney, Durham & Baron, Denver, Colorado

  • Civil Litigation
  • Creditor Representation
1/87 to 1/89

Attorney, Loser, Davies, Magoon & Fitzgerald, P.C., Denver, Colorado

  • Real Estate Litigation
  • Title Insurance Litigation
  • Commercial and Other Civil Litigation
  • Creditor Representation
4/83 to 12/86

Attorney, Towey & Zak, Denver, Colorado

  • Real Estate Litigation
  • Title Insurance Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Employment Litigation
  • Antitrust Litigation
  • Personal Injury and Other Civil Litigation
  • Creditor Representation
5/81 to 3/83

Attorney, Collins & Amos, Chicago, Illinois

  • Commercial and Other Civil Litigation
  • Creditor Representation
10/76 to 4/81

Attorney, Sole practitioner, Chicago, Illinois

  • General practice, all facets, including litigation
1977-1978

Instructor,Legal Writing and Research, IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois

1976-1977 Instructor, Legal Writing and Research, Loyola Univ. School of Law,
Chicago, Illinois

Bar Admissions
1976 Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
1983 Colorado and U.S. District Court, Colorado
1987 U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit

Professional Memberships
Denver Bar Association
Colorado Bar Association - Member, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business and Real Estate Sections
Association for Conflict Resolution

Recognition
Martindale Hubbell "AV" (highest) rating as judged by peers
Strathmore's Who's Who, 2001-2002

Representative Matters (As Attorney)
Title Insurance Company of Minnesota v. American Savings & Loan Ass'n, 866 F.2d 1284 (10th Cir.1989), rev'g, 655 F. Supp. 450 (D. Colo. 1987)
Caley Investments I v. Lowe Family Associates, 754 P.2d 793 (Colo. App. 1988)
Garcia v. Title Insurance Company of Minnesota, 712 P.2d 1114 (Colo. App. 1985)
Pittman v. Larson Distributing Company, 724 P.2d 1379 (Colo. App. 1986), cert. denied
Newell v. Field Enterprises, Inc., 415 N.E.2d 434, 20 A.L.R.4th 551 (Ill. App. 1980)

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