Areas of Concentration
- Commercial
- Construction
- Business disputes
- Contracts
- Real estate
- Insurance coverage
- Partner and shareholder disputes
- Partnership dissolution
Legal Experience
Twenty years as a civil trial lawyer, with more than a dozen jury trials and numerous bench trials in commercial and construction and matters. Arbitrations before single and multi-arbitrator panels. Appellate experience before the Washington Courts of Appeals and the
Mediation Experience
- 15+ years experience mediating all kinds of civil disputes, with the exception of family law and personal injury/bodily injury claims
- Commercial and industrial construction disputes from $100,000 to $21million
- Residential new construction and remodeling disputes from $50,000 to $7 million
- Commercial and contract disputes
- Mediations without lawyers
- Significant experience in multi-party disputes with up to 18 parties
- Construction matters with underlying insurance coverage issues
- Construction defect claims
Arbitration Experience
- 20 years as a commercial/construction arbitrator
- Sewage Treatment plants, dry-docks, public works projects,
- Partnership disputes
- Interpretation of purchase and sale agreements
- New residential construction and remodels
- Numerous hearings as the sole arbitrator as well as panel member of three arbitrator panels
- Construction defect claims
Arbitration and Mediation Training
- Speaker and Moderator, ABA Advanced Mediation Training, 2005
- Advanced arbitrator training, AAA 2002
- Advanced construction mediation training, 1997
- Trainer, observer, AAA mediation training, 1997
- Collaborative mediation training, ADR Options Consulting, 1996
- Advanced arbitrator training, AAA, 1996
- Basic mediation training, 1992
- Basic arbitrator training, AAA 1991
Education
- University of Washington, B.S., Psychology, 1977, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
- Cornell Law School, J.D. 1981
Miscellaneous
- Selected as a Super Lawyer in the ADR field by Washington Law and Politics, from 2000-2005
- Selected as one of 105 top lawyers by Seattle Magazine, 2005
- Selected as one of Washington's "Most Amazing Lawyers" by Washington CEO Magazine, March 2006
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