Representative Experience
Outside General Counsel to public and private companies

Merger and acquisition transactions

Creation, restructuring, and reorganization of corporate and partnership enterprises

Counseling corporations regarding succession planning

Cross border transactions and entity structuring

Prior Experience
Partner/Firmwide Professional Development and Recruiting Partner, Holland & Knight LLP, Seattle, WA

Partner/President, Weiss Jensen Ellis & Howard, Seattle, WA

Partner/Managing Partner, Reed McCLure, Seattle, WA

Nominations, Publications and Presentations
Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” by Woodward/White, 2006-2008

Co-author, “Religious Corporations and the Law,” 71 Michigan Law Review 1500

Memberships and Activities
Board of Trustees, King County Bar Foundation

Secretary, Board of Trustees, King County Bar Foundation

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Washington State Bar Association

• Committee of Law Examiners
  (Member, 1974-1986, Chair 1983-1986)
• Character and Fitness Committee
  (1986-1991)
• Law Clerk Committee
  (1983-1997)

Member, King County Bar Association

The Northwest Theological Union (Board of Trustees and Secretary, 1986-1994)

Seattle Children’s Home (Board of Trustees, 1987-1991)

The Village Theatre (Board of Trustees, 1993-2002; President, 2000-2002; Member, Executive Committee, and Secretary and Vice President, Fundraising 1995-2002)

Education
J.D., cum laude, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI, 1970

B.A., cum laude, Economics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1967