• Represented three related corporations that operate numerous franchised fast-food restaurants in western Wisconsin in individual shareholders' sales and purchases of controlling interests in the corporations, including negotiating and drafting of non-competition agreements, promissory notes and guarantees, financing agreements, and related agreements, and revisions of equipment and real estate leases.
• Represented an individual in a complex transaction regarding the purchase of stock in a transportation business operated by a competitor, which included a stock purchase agreement and sale agreements, a real estate purchase agreement, an equipment lease, a real estate lease, a joint-venture agreement by which the buyer and seller entities combined their businesses into one operation, several employment agreements and non-competition agreements, a buy-sell agreement, and an option agreement.
• Represented several investor groups regarding the purchase of a hotel in Wisconsin, the sale of a hotel in Minnesota, and the purchase of real estate in Minnesota and construction of a hotel on that real estate, which included negotiation and drafting of purchase and sale agreements, operating agreements, development agreements, real estate purchase agreements, construction contracts, and related documents, the review and drafting of loan agreement and related financing documents, and the review of franchise agreements for the hotel operations.

Education:
B.S., (magna cum laude) University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire (1978)
J.D., University of Wisconsin – Madison (1981)

Admitted to Practice:
Wisconsin Supreme Court
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Bar Associations:
American Bar Association

Section Member: Real Property, Trust & Estate Law

State Bar of Wisconsin

Section Member: Business Law; Real Property

Eau Claire County Bar Association

Professional Activities:
American Arbitration Association arbitrator (1993 to 2002)

Wisconsin Law Foundation, Fellow (2009 - present)

Civic Activities:
University of Wisconsin Eau Claire Alumni Association,

Board of Directors (1982-1988); President (1987-1988)

University of Wisconsin Eau Claire Foundation, Inc., Board of Directors (1991-1998);

Secretary (1993-1994); Vice President (1994-1995); and President (1996-1998)

Eau Claire YMCA, Childcare Services Committee (1988-1996)

Board of Directors (1993-1999); Vice President (1996-1998); and President (1998-1999)

St. Francis Food Pantry, Board of Directors (1991-1997)
Indianhead Track Club,

Board of Directors (1995-2005); President (2003-2004); and inducted in Hall of Fame (2005)

Leadership Eau Claire™ (1985-1986)
Junior Achievement, volunteer in second grade classroom (1998 to present)
Realtors Association of NorthWestern Wisconsin

Associate Member and legal counsel

Eau Claire Area Economic Development Corporation 

Revolving Loan Fund Committee (2005 - present); Area Business Development Committee (2005 - present); Create Your Own Business contest Judge (2008)

Chippewa Valley Homebuilders

Associate Member and Ethics Committee Chairperson (2005 - present)