EXPERIENCE:

EDUCATION:

University of New Hampshire (B.A., 1998)
Franklin Pierce Law Center (J.D., 2001)

ACADEMIC HONORS:

Nominee, Smyth Book Fund Award for Academic Excellence

ADMISSIONS:

U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit – 2003

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan – 2001

U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan – 2006

U.S. District Court, Maine - 2008

Michigan – 2001

Maine - 2008

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Bar Association ( ABA )

ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, Vice-Chair, Business Section

Michigan State Bar Association

Chairman, Civil Rules & Litigation Committee, Federal Bar Association, Eastern District of Michigan (2003 – 2006)

Member, Professional Liability Underwriters' Society, Legal Section

SEMINARS, SPEECHES
AND PRESENTATIONS:

April, 2006 – Speaker, “Consumer Class Actions After the           Enactment of the Class Action Fairness Act”, Washtenaw              County Bar Association Monthly Meeting

 March, 2006 – Speaker, “Original Versus Removal
Jurisdiction in Federal Court”, St. Claire County Bar
Association Annual Meeting

PUBLICATIONS:

Author:

“Does TILA Allow for Rescission of an Original Loan
After It Is Refinanced?”, The Mortgage Banking
Newsletter”, June, 2006

“Do the Benefits of Consumer Class Actions Justify the
Costs?”, Federal Bar Association Newsletter, Fall, 2003

Co-Author:

“Proving Lost Profits for New Businesses in the
Post-Daubert Era”, The Michigan Business Law Journal,
August, 2006

“Class Actions Breathe Life into the Fair Labor Standards
Act”, Wayne State University Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 3,
Fall, 2004