Attorney

Areas of Practice

• Class Actions
• Business & Commercial Litigation
• Product Liability - Plaintiff
• Personal Injury - Plaintiff

Litigation Percentage

• 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

• Missouri
• Kansas
• U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
• U.S. District Court District of Kansas
• U.S. District Court Western District of Missouri

Education

• Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana
  J.D.
  
  
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  Ph.D, Political Science, Political Philosophy
  
  
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  B.A., Political Science
  
  

Published Works

• Legal Hermeneutics: History, Theory, and Practice, University of California Press, March, 1992
• Justice David Davis, The Oxford Companion To The Supreme Court Of The United States, Oxford University Press, 1992
• Toward A Constitutional Hermeneutics, 32 American Journal of Political Science 369, 1988
• Dworkin's Hermeneutics, 39 Mercer Law Review 851, 1988
• Contemporary Constitutional Theory and Hermeneutics, American Political Science Association Newsletter, 1987
• Reagan and Rhetoric: An Oval Office Aesop?, 23 The Social Science Journal, 1986

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association
  
  
• American Association of Justice
  
  
• Law and Society Association
  
  
• American Trial Lawyers Association
  
  
• Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys
  
  
• Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
  
  
• Law, Courts, and Judicial Process Section of APSA
  
  
• Society for Social and Political Philosophy
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Humphrey, Farrington & McClain, Attorney, 1993 - 1999
• Wirken & King, Attorney, 1992 - 1993
• Illinois Wesleyan University, Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1984 - 1989
• College of St. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1983 - 1984

Languages

• English
• Ancient Greek

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Kappa Phi

Birth Information

• 1953, St. Louis Park, Minnesota