Representative Experience
Bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy litigation concerning secured loans and out-of-court restructuring of creditor and debtor relationships

Complex bankruptcy-related creditor issues

Complex real and personal property lien issues

Appearing in courts in New York, Delaware, Illinois, Texas, California, Arizona, Oklahoma, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Washington

Active in counseling banking, commercial lending clients, and other lending clients in loan documentation, bankruptcy risks, security interest perfection and priorities, and noncredit risks of lending and loan administration

Representing lending institutions, asset-based lenders, leasing companies, and utilities who sell electricity on wholesale power markets

Representative Clients
Bank of America
General Electric Capital Corporation
U.S. Bank
Many regional banks
Municipalities and Public Utility Districts

Publications and Presentations
Frequent lecturer on bankruptcy topics

Visiting Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark School of Law at Brigham Young University, 1991

Memberships and Activities
American Bar Association

• Member, Business Bankruptcy Committee
  
• Member, Subcommittee on Secured Creditors
  
• Member, Subcommittee on Chapter 11

Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law by Woodward/White, 1991-2008

Selected to "Super Lawyers," Washington Law & Politics, 1999-2006

Washington State Bar Association

King County Bar Association

Education
J.D., University of Chicago School of Law, 1975

B.A. in History, cum laude, Brigham Young University, 1970