Representative Experience
General Counsel to public and large private companies

Advice as General or Special Counsel to Boards of Directors and senior management, particularly with respect to corporate governance and shareholder rights

Merger and acquisition transactions

Creation, restructuring, and reorganization of corporate and partnership enterprises

Counseling corporations regarding succession planning

Prior Experience
Law clerk to the Honorable Robert F. Utter on the Washington State Supreme Court in 1977-1978

Representative Clients
Seattle Times Company

Pope Resources, A Delaware Limited Partnership

Buckner News Alliance

Memberships and Activities
Listed as one of Puget Sound's Top Business Lawyers by Seattle Business Monthly, 2006, 2008

Named as one of "America's Leading Business Lawyers" by Chambers USA, 2005-2007

Named as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law by Woodward/White, 1995-1996; 1997-98; 1999-2000; 2001-02; 2003-04; 2005-06; 2006; 2007. Named in Corporate Law, 2008

Selected to "Super Lawyers," Washington Law & Politics, 2001-2008

Washington State Bar Association

Washington Law School Foundation Board, 2003-Present; Audit Committee Chair, 2006-Present; Law Firm Challenge Co-Chair, 2007-Present

Seattle Pacific University School of Business and Economics Advisory Council, 2003-present

Founding Member, Advisory Board, University of Washington Edward E. Carlson Leadership and Public Service Center, 1991-2006

Education
J.D., University of Washington School of Law, 1977

• Order of the Coif
  
• Member of the Law Review