Areas of Practice Emphasis

• Commercial & Business Litigation
• Real Estate

Representative Clients

• AT&T Inc.
• JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
• LaSalle Bank, N.A.
• Citizens Bank
• Fifth Third Bank
• Life Time Fitness, Inc.
• The Related Companies
• Target Steel, Inc.
• Prudential Insurance Company of America
• The Cold Heading Company

Prominent Assignments

• Extensive trial and appellate experience in both state and federal courts in the following substantive areas of law:
  
  - Contract disputes, including particularly UCC breach of warranty claims for economic damages between manufacturers and suppliers of automobile component parts, and non-competition and non-solicitation agreements.
  
  - Real estate and real estate lending litigation, including particularly, mortgage foreclosure and priority disputes, lien foreclosure disputes, lease disputes, land use disputes, and commercial landlord-tenant disputes
  
  - Business tort claims, including particularly, fraud, tortuous interference, unfair competition, breach of fiduciary duty, and misappropriation of trade secrets
  

Education

• J.D., Boston College Law School, 1992
• B.A., University of Michigan, 1989

Admitted to Practice

• State of Michigan
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

Professional and Community Involvement

• Member, State Bar of Michigan
  - UCC Committee
  
• Member of the Association for Corporate Growth, sponsorship/membership committee
• Member of the Oakland County Bar Association
  - Inn of Court, Barrister
  
• Member, University of Michigan Alumni
• Regional Director, Karmanos Cancer Institute, term beginning January 1, 2002 to December 2004

Publications and Presentations

• lettersofcreditonline.com, co-author, monthly internet publication