Areas of Practice
Labor and employment law, including labor relations counseling and extensive experience representing employers in collective bargaining and strategic labor relations planning.

Representative Experience
Negotiating agreements on behalf of employers engaged in a wide variety of industries throughout the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii, including maritime companies, banking, public sector, utilities, trucking, retail, warehousing and health care. Assisting employers with union organizing campaigns, corporate campaigns, and strike planning. Represents CEOs and other senior executives as well as employers in negotiation and preparation of executive employment agreements and severance packages. Helps employers reduce and control labor costs.

Prior Experience
Former DWT Managing Partner (1989-1994)

Former Chair of DWT Diversity Committee (1999-2003)

Staff Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce in Washington, D.C., 1967-68

Publications and Presentations
Co-author, Employer's Guide to Strike Planning and Prevention (Practicing Law Institute, 1985)

Contributing Editor, The Developing Labor Law (BNA Books)

Memberships and Activities
American Bar Association; Labor and Employment Law and Health Law Sections

Washington State Bar Association

King County Bar Association – Employment Law Section

American Hospital Association Labor Relations Advisory Committee

National Banking Industry Labor Law Committee

Board of Directors, Virginia Mason Medical Center (Chairman, 2000-2003), Entranco, Inc.; Sonata Capital Group, Inc.; Pacific Northwest Ballet; Epiphany School (past President); Overlake School (past President); Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools and Seattle-King County Visiting Nurses Association

Legal Aid for Washington Fund (past President)

Endowment for Equal Justice (Board member)

IDLO-USA

Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers

Fellow, American Bar Foundation (life member)

Named as one of "America's Leading Business Lawyers" by Chambers USA

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

Listed in every edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in Who's Who in America

Education
J.D., University of Washington School of Law, 1967

• Order of the Coif
  
• Recent Developments Editor, Washington Law Review
  
• 1st Nelson T. Hartson Scholar