Representative Experience
Counsels private (profit and nonprofit) and municipal corporations in large construction projects, including architectural and engineering contracts

Experience includes design-bid-build, fast-track, design-build and CM/GC, contract drafting and negotiation claims resolution, arbitration and litigation, government contracts, real estate acquisition and eminent domain, relocation, development and disposal, land use, grant funding issues, minority and women owned business enterprises and SBA issues, and Davis-Bacon and other prevailing wage issues

Representative Projects
Banfield Light Rail - $300 million

Westside Light Rail - $960 million

Airport Light Rail - $125 million

North Interstate Light Rail - $350 million

Washington County Commuter Rail - $120 million

PDX Terminal Expansion North - $10 million

Villaggio Condo Rehab Project - $22 million

Lake Oswego School District Bonded Remodel - $74 million

Prior Experience
Deputy general counsel with the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon responsible for the construction contracting, claims, real estate acquisition and land use

Deputy general counsel for the Port of Portland responsible for terminal leases and development, concessions and land use for its Marine and Marine Services

Publications and Presentations
Seminar speaker on public construction contracting, eminent domain, real estate and land use issues

Co-author, "Legislature sends builders back to school," The Daily Journal of Commerce, August 23, 2007

Co-author, "Legislative changes sweep up chimney workers, more," The Daily Journal of Commerce, August 24, 2007

Author, "Home resell industry spurs host of myths," The Daily Journal of Commerce,
June 28, 2007

Author, “Construction managers can help - in most cases,” The Daily Journal of Commerce,
June 22, 2006

Author, “Construction defect claims leave water, water everywhere,” The Daily Journal of Commerce, Jan. 26, 2006

Memberships and Activities
Oregon State Bar

Member, Legal Affairs Committee of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA)

Member of Public Contracting Coalition -
Oregon-Columbia Chapter of the Associated General Contractors (AGC)

Education
J.D., Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, 1975

B.S. in Political Science, Portland State University, 1972