Current Employment Position(s)

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Areas of Practice

• General Practice
• Employment Law

West Practice Categories

Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Estate Planning, Family Law, Real Estate Law

Bar Admissions

• Iowa, 1994

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Polk County Bar Association (Member, Ethics Committee)
• Iowa State Bar Association, 1994 - 1996 (Co-Chair, Elder Law Committee)
• American Bar Association, Tort and Insurance Law Section, 1994 - Present (Member)
• American Bar Association, 1994 - 1996 (Chair, Criminal and Juvenile Justice Committee)
• Iowa Defense Counsel Association (Boardmember)
• Iowa Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Amicus Curiae Committee)
• Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service (Vice Chair)
• Iowa Society for Human Resources (Management)

Past Employment Positions

• Hon. Maynard J.V. Hayden, Iowa Court of Appeals, Law Clerk, 1994 - 1995

Education

• Southern Illinois University School of Law, Carbondale, Illinois, 1994
  J.D.
  Honors: summa cum laude
• University of Iowa, 1991
  B.A.

Published Works

• Monthly Columnist, The Iowa Lawyer Magazine, 1996-Present
• Quarterly Columnist, In Brief Magazine, 1997 - Present
• "Get Thee To An Attorney!": Shakespeare's Hamlet as an Example of a Person 'Being Regarded' as Having a Disability under the ADA,, THE IOWA LAWYER, January, 1998
• "Liar, Liar - Polygraph Examinations in Employment", THE IOWA LAWYER, December, 1997
• "Impairments Limiting an Individual's Ability to Work as Analyzed Under the ADA", IN BRIEF, November, 1997
• "Effect of Mitigating Measures on Determination of "Disability" Under the Americans with Disabilities Act", IN BRIEF, September - October, 1997
• "Immunity Available Upon Request-New Iowa Statute Provides Immunity From Civil Liability for Employers Providing References and Other Work Related Information", THE IOWA LAWYER, September, 1997
• "We Can't Work It Out: Retaliatory Discharge & the Family and Medical Leave Act", IN BRIEF, July - August, 1997
• "Knocking The Corporate Opportunity Doctrine--ALI Means Business With New Test; Four Jurisdictions Took Opportunity To Employ; Should Iowa Accompany Them?", THE IOWA LAWYER, July, 1997
• "Admissions by Party-Opponents Under Iowa Rule of Evidence 801(D)(2)(d)", IN BRIEF, March - April, 1997
• "Employer Liability for an Independent Contractor's Injuries: Robinson v. Poured Walls of Iowa, Inc.", THE IOWA LAWYER, February, 1997
• "A,B,Cs of the ADA: Iowa Supreme Court Addresses Employment Discrimination Claims Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Cole v. Staff Temps", THE IOWA LAWYER, January, 1997
• "Working It Out: Iowa Supreme Court Plasters Proposed Cause of Action, Anderson Plasterers v. Meinecke", THE IOWA LAWYER, May, 1996
• "United States v. National Treasury Employees Union: United States Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Honoraria for Federal Workers", IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION GOVERNMENT PRACTICE SECTION NEWSLETTER, May, 1995

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