Current Employment Position(s)

Of Counsel, since 2003

Year Joined Organization: 1995

Lawyer Overview

Practice concentrates in ERISA and employee benefits law. Substantial experience advising large and small employers with respect to (1) the tax, Title I, Title IV, labor, ADEA and securities law issues involving pension, profit-sharing, 401(k), stock bonus, stock option, deferred compensation, and medical and other welfare benefit plans, (2) fiduciary and other employee benefit issues arising with respect to investments involving pension fund assets, and (3) executive compensation planning.

Areas of Practice

• Employment and Labor Relations
• Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
• Business
• Investment Management
• Tax
• Biotech and Emerging Technologies
• Native American

West Practice Categories

Pensions, Benefits & Compensations -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Labor Law, Business & Commercial Law, Banking & Finance Law, Taxation Law

Bar Admissions

• Ohio, 1978
• Illinois, 1982
• Washington, 1996

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association (Taxation Section, Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section and Employee Benefits Committee) (Member)
• East King County Soccer Referees Association (Vice President, Board of Directors)

Classes and Seminars

• Speaker, Nondiscrimination Rules, Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting - October 1991
• Speaker, Current Developments in Qualified Plans and Executive Compensation, Tulane Tax Institute - October 1989

Past Employment Positions

• Foster Pepper PLLC, Member, 1996 - 2002
• Foster Pepper PLLC, Of Counsel, 1995 - 1996
• Johnson & Gibbs, P.C. - Dallas, Texas, Shareholder, 1988 - 1995
• Kimberly-Clark Corporation - Dallas, Texas, Associate Counsel, Corporate Affairs, 1985 - 1989
• Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson - Chicago, Illinois, Associate, 1982 - 1984
• Department of Labor - Office of the Solicitor - Washington, D.C., Attorney, 1979 - 1982

Education

• New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1979
  LL.M.
  Major: Corporation Law
• University of Toledo College of Law, Toledo, Ohio, 1978
  J.D.
  
  Law Review: University of Toledo Law Review, Executive Editor, 1977 - 1978
• University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1974
  A.B.

Published Works

• Contributing Author, Employee Benefits Law, S. Sacher et al. ed. 1991
• Author, Scienter As an Essential Element in an SEC Suit for Injunctive Relief, Note, 8 U. Tol. L. Rev. 817, 1977

Address

1111 Third Avenue
Suite 3400
Seattle, WA 98101-3299

Phones

(206) 447-8919

Faxes

(206) 749-1947

Emails

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Websites

http://www.foster.com