Representative Experience
Real estate development and joint ventures

Development agreements, mixed use projects and master plans Land use: Growth management, zoning SEPA and environmental permitting

Timber, timber conversions and conservation easements

Transportation and infrastructure agreements

Property acquisition, sales, exchanges and financing

Click here for a list of Land Use Permitting & Development Agreements

Click here for a list of Transactional Projects

Click here for a list of Infrastructure Agreements

Representative Clients
Port Blakely Tree Farms/Port Blakely Communities
Grand-Glacier LLC
Seattle Times Company
Ditty Properties
Olympic Resource Management/Pope Resources/Olympic Property Group
Seattle Art Museum

Publications and Presentations
Frequently lectures, publishes articles and speaks at land use and environmental law conferences

Memberships and Activities
Past Chair, Land Use and Environmental Law Section, Washington State Bar Association

Past Chair, DWT's Real Property Practice Group

American College of Real Estate Lawyers (elected 1988)

Washington State Bar Association; American Bar Association

Listed in Best Lawyers in America (since 1992); Seattle’s Best Lawyers (Seattle Magazine); Who's Who Legal (International Business Lawyer) 2002; Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers: 2004-2006

Selected to "Super Lawyers," Washington Law & Politics, 1999-2008

Appointed by the governor to the State Regulatory Reform Task Force and co-chaired the committee reviewing environmental, permitting and land use reforms

Education
J.D., magna cum laude, University of Michigan School of Law, 1973

• Order of the Coif
  
• Editor, Michigan Law Review