Member

Representative Matters

• Represents parties to construction contracts involving a wide variety of matters, from modest claims to multi-million dollar breach of contract, defective construction and termination actions.
• Represents elite and Olympic athletes and National Governing Bodies in disputes involving Olympic and international competition.

Professional Activities

• Admitted Colorado and New Mexico
• Admitted to practice before the United States District Court for District of Colorado, United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the United States Tax Court
• Member, Colorado Bar Association, American Bar Association, and the American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry.
• Adjunct Professor, (Construction Law) University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 2004-Present
• Member, Colorado Lottery Commission, 2001-2005 (Chair, 2003-2004; Vice-Chair 2002-2003)
• Member, American Arbitration Association's National Roster of Construction Arbitrators  
• Member, Court of Arbitration, Federation Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation)

Publications and Presentations

• Editor, Construction Briefings 2006 - 2008 (West, Thomson/Reuters company)
• Associate Editor, The Construction Lawyer 2007 - present (American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry)
• Executive Editor, Design Professional and Construction Manager Law (2007; ABA  Forum on the Construction Industry)
• Author, Colorado Civil Litigation Handbook (2004 with annual revisions; West, a Thomson/Reuters Company)
• Co-Author (with Sheila Hyatt), Colorado Civil Rules Annotated (two vols.)(4th ed. 2005 and annual supplements; West, a Thomson/Reuters company)
• Co-Author (with Sheila Hyatt), Colorado Handbook on Courtroom Evidence (2004 and annual revisions West, a Thomson/Reuters company)
• Author, Chapters 3 and 10 of R. Benson, ed., Colorado Construction Law (2008, CLE in Colorado, Inc.)
• Author, three chapters in Construction Law textbook for law students published by American Bar Association
• Author, more than two dozen law review articles on construction law and other topics in national construction law journals and treatises
• Author and presenter, numerous papers, presentations, and programs both nationally and within Colorado on wide variety of litigation topics and construction law topics

Education

• Juris Doctor, University of Colorado School of Law, 1987
  • Articles Editor, University of Colorado Law Review
• Master of Arts, emphasis in Philosophy of Science and Mathematical Logic, Rice University, 1985
• Bachelor of Arts, Franklin and Marshall College, 1982