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- Born, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
- B.A., University of Iowa,
1989.
- J.D. with Honors, Order of
the Coif, DePaul University College of Law, 1993
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- Admitted to the Bar of Illinois,
1993; the United States District Court for the Northern District
of Illinois, 1993, and the United States Court of Appeals for the
7th Circuit, 1994.
Practice
Areas:
- Employment, commercial,
professional liability and medical malpractice litigation
before the Illinois State and Federal Courts
- Civil appellate practice
before the Illinois Appellate and Supreme Courts and the United
States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
- Employment litigation
before the Illinois Department of Human Rights
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Professional
Memberships and Activities:
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Illinois Association of Defense
Trial Counsel
- Illinois Appellate Lawyers
Association
Publications:
- Excessive
Punitive Damages Awards -- Much Ado About Something, IDC
Quaterly, Third Quarter, 2006, Vol. 16, No. 3.
- Embedded
Micropocessors : The Other Y2K Problem,
Illinois Bar Journal, 1999, Vol. 87, No.12.
- Courts Are Beginning
to Permit Excess Insurers to Maintain Malpractice Actions Against
Their Insured's Attorneys, ABA Tort and Insurance Practice
Committee News, Fall, 1998.
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D & O Liability and the Year 2000-a Repeat of the 1980s?,Illinois
Bar Journal, 1998, Vol. 86, No. 9.
- The Sale of Asbestos
Insulation, Incidental to Its Installation Into Real Property, is
a Protected Activity Under the Construction Statute of Repose.
IDC Quarterly, First Quarter, 1998, Vol. 8, No.1.
- An
Excess Insurer's Right to Maintain a Malpractice Action Against
the Insured's Attorney - An Undecided Issue in Illinois,
IDC Quarterly, Fourth Quarter, 1997, Vol. 7, No. 4.
- Construction
Statute of Repose: The Sale of a Product, Incidental to It's Installation,
Is a Protected Activity Under the Construction Statute of Repose,
IDC Quarterly, Fourth Quarter, 1996, Vol. 6, No. 4.
- Liability Insurance,
IICLE, 1996.
Other:
- Extensive involvement as
Amicus Curia on behalf of the Illinois Association of Defense Trial
Counsel (IDC) in opposition to the challenges to the Tort Reform
Act
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