Areas of Practice
Corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, timber law, art law, lawyer professional conduct and ethics
Representative Experience
Business acquisitions and sales
Outside general counsel to mature closely held corporations
Representative Clients
General outside counsel to Seattle Art Museum, Lanoga Corporation, Alaska Power & Telephone Company, Harris Group, Inc., Pacific Denkmann Company, and Pacific Market International
Lanoga Corporation in numerous acquisitions of lumberyard, retail building materials, truss plant, and home component businesses throughout the United States
Seattle Times Company in numerous newspaper acquisitions, including the Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram, Yakima Herald Republic, and The Issaquah Press
ATEAC Inc., a consortium of telecommunications companies, in its acquisition of the assets of GTE Alaska
Metal Form, Inc., a commercial aircraft parts manufacturing company, in connection with the sales of its outstanding shares
Publications and Presentations
Frequent speaker at continuing legal education seminars
Author of a chapter in Washington Practice (West Publishing Co., 1989) entitled "The Corporation"
Co-author of Conflicts of Interest in Business Transactions: Guidelines for the Business Lawyer (WSBA 1990)
Memberships and Activities
Chair, Washington State Bar Association Corporate Act Revision Committee
Past chair, 1,750-member Washington State Bar Association Business Law Section
Listed as one of Puget Sound's Top Business Lawyers by Seattle Business Monthly, 2006
Voted one of the top 100 lawyers in Washington in 2003 and 2004, Washington Law & Politics
Named as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law by Woodward/White, 1995-1996; 1997-98; 1999-2000; 2001-02; 2003-04; 2005-06; 2006; 2007. Named in Corporate Law, 2008
Selected to "Super Lawyers," Washington Law & Politics, 2004-2008
Listed in "The Top Business Attorneys in Washington" as one of top ten attorneys in state in corporate and mergers and acquisitions categories, Washington CEO Magazine, June, 2008 (page 49)
Education
J.D., Stanford University School of Law, 1977
B.A., with distinction, Stanford University, 1973
