Current Employment Position(s)

Member, since 1997

Year Joined Organization: 1987

Lawyer Overview

Bankruptcy litigation and commercial litigation practice emphasizing creditor/debtor rights, avoidance actions, collections and realization proceedings. Significant litigation experience in a large variety of Chapter 11 reorganizations, representing debtors, secured creditors, committees, landlords, directors and officers, and trustees.

Areas of Practice

• Creditors Rights and Bankruptcy
• Credit Crisis

Representative Cases

• U.S. v. Carey, 375 B.R. 580 (Bankr. 9th Cir. 2007)
• In re Alloy Trailers, Inc.
• In re Vectra Technologies, Inc.
• In re Midcom Communications
• In re C&B Livestock, Inc.
• In re Wade Cook Financial Corporation
• In re Pro Air, Inc., 223 Fed. Appx. 705 (9th Cir. 2007)
• In re AKR Properties, Inc.

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Law, Creditors' Rights

Bar Admissions

• Washington, 1989
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 2005
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, 2001
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Washington, 1994
• U.S. District Court Western District of Washington, 1990
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 2009

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association (Business Bankruptcy Committee) (Member)
• Washington State Bar Association (Litigation Section, Creditor/Debtor Section) (Member)
• King County Bar Association (Creditor/Debtor Section) (Member)
• King County Bar Association (Judicial Screening Committee II) (Co-chair, 1995-1998; Member, 1994-1998)
• Loren Miller Bar Association
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• Leadership Tomorrow Class of 2000
• King County Bar Foundation, 2003 - 2005 (Board of Trustees)
• United Way of King County (Board of Directors), 2001 - Present
• Planned Parenthood of Western Washington (Board of Directors), 2000 - 2004

Honors and Awards

• Super Lawyers® List, Washington Law & Politics,, 2001 - 2008
• The Best Lawyers in America® - Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law, 2007 - 2008
• 87 Top Business Lawyers, Seattle Business Monthly, January 2008
• Martindale-Hubbell AV rating
• Clarence Darrow Scholarship, 1986 - 1988
• American Parliamentary Debate Association President, 1984 - 1985

Classes and Seminars

• My Borrower Has Filed ... Now What Do I Do? Lenders' Rights and Remedies in Bankruptcy Proceedings, Mastering Disaster - Dealing with Problem Credits - March 2008
• Taking Control Through a Creditor Plan of Reorganization, ABA Business Law Section Spring Meeting - April 2006
• Evidence to Successfully Defend or Prove an Avoidance Action Through the Use of Expert and Consulting Witnesses, ABA Business Law Section Spring Meeting - March 2005
• Effect of Bankruptcy on Commercial Litigation, ABA Business Law Section Spring Meeting - March 2004
• Practical and Effective Use of Legislative History, ABA Business Law Section Spring Meeting - April 2003
• Bankruptcy: 21st Century Style, Washington State Bar Association CLE - September 2000
• You, Too, Can Do Bankruptcy, King County Bar Association Cross-Training 101 CLE - December 1999
• Bankruptcy Issues That Affect Your Practice, ABA Young Lawyers Division and the 1998 Tort & Insurance Practice Section Joint Spring Meeting - May 1998

Past Employment Positions

• Foster Pepper PLLC, Associate, 1989 - 1996
• Foster Pepper PLLC, Summer Associate, 1987 - 1988
• Senator Bill BradleyWashington, D.C., Special Projects Assistant, 1985 - 1986

Education

• The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1989
  J.D.
• Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, Princeton, New Jersey, 1985
  A.B.

Address

1111 Third Avenue
Suite 3400
Seattle, WA 98101-3299

Phones

(206) 447-2906

Faxes

(206) 749-1904

Emails

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Websites

http://www.foster.com