Attorney Profile

CAREER SUMMARY

I have broad, intensive, and extensive experience as a transactional, trial and appellate lawyer, emphasizing general business; business organization, reorganization, and dissolution; real estate; estates and trusts; labor and employment; and secured and unsecured financing. I began my career in 1964 as an associate at a large San Francisco law firm, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro. I was a partner in 2 to 12 lawyer general practice firms in San Francisco from 1971 to 1999. I have been a sole practitioner in San Francisco since 1999. My office is in the 15 lawyer San Francisco office of Hinshaw & Culbertson, a national law firm with its principal office in Chicago. I have access to the staff of the firm for support as needed.

EDUCATION

J. D., 1964, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Editor-in-Chief, Hastings Law Journal, 1963-1964
Order of the Coif
B.S.E., 1959, Princeton University

PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS MEMBERSHIPS

American Bar Association.
Business and Trusts and Estates Sections of the California Bar Association.
Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section of The Bar Association of San Francisco.
Former Arbitrator on the Attorney Fee Disputes Committee of the San Francisco Bar Association.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Former Chairman, Board of Directors - California Association of Student Councils
Active member and former patrol leader - San Francisco/Squaw Valley National Ski Patrol
Ten-year member - National Legal Committee of National Ski Patrol System
Former President - Northern California Lacrosse Association
Former Chairman, Tennis Committee - The Olympic Club