Representative Experience
Representing a wide variety of business and individual clients in complex and class action commercial contract and tort litigation including maritime disputes and extensive creditor representation in bankruptcy proceedings.

In re Exxon Valdez, Case No. A89-095-CV (HRH) (Consolidated), U.S. District Court, Alaska. Court-appointed Lead Counsel for 30,000 plaintiffs represented by 60 law firms in the consolidated proceedings for over 250 lawsuits, both class actions and direct actions, filed on behalf of fishermen, processors, Alaska Natives, landowners, businesses, and others injured as a result of the spill of 11.8 million gallons of North Slope crude oil into the coastal waters of Alaska by the T/V Exxon Valdez owned by Exxon Corporation and Exxon Shipping Company. A four month jury trial resulted in a verdict awarding plaintiff clients $297.0 million compensatory damages and $5.0 billion punitive damages.

Representative Clients
AT&T/Alascom
Holland America (USA), Inc.
Bank of America
Artic Slope Regional Corporation

Memberships and Activities
American Bar Association

Alaska Bar Association

Anchorage Bar Association

Washington State Bar

American Bankruptcy Institute

American College of Trial Lawyers

Anchorage Chamber of Commerce

Commonwealth North

Named as one of "America's Leading Business Lawyers" by Chambers USA, 2003-2006

Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law by Woodward/White, 1983; 1987; 1989-90; 1991-92; 1993-94; 1995-96; 1997-98; 1999-2000; 2001-02; 2003-04; 2005-06; 2006; 2007; 2008

Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Business Litigation by Woodward/White, 1995-1996; 1997-98; 1999-2000; 2001-02; 2003-04; 2005-06; 2006; 2007

Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Environmental Law and in Commercial Litigation by Woodward/White, 2008

Special counsel to the Anchorage Organizing Committee in its efforts to host the Winter Olympic Games

Alaska Native Heritage Center – Board of Directors

Private Pilot

Education
J.D., with honors, Washington University School of Law, 1970

• Order of the Coif
  
• Editor-in-chief, Washington University Law Quarterly