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Practice Areas: Insurance Defense, Appellate Practice, Civil Litigation

Additional Information: Missouri Board of Law Examiners (President; Member of Board, 1996 �); Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers (Immediate Past President, 2004-2005; Member of Board, 1996�); The Missouri Bar (Chair, Civil Practice and Procedure Committee; 2001�; Ethics 2005 and Ethics 2000 Special Committees; Special Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct; Commission on the Independence of the Judiciary, 2005); Boone County, Illinois State and American (Member: Council of Appellate Lawyers; Appellate Advocacy Committee) Bar Associations; Association of Defense Trial Attorneys (Member, 2001-2003); Defense Research Institute (Member, Appellate Advocacy Committee); American Bar Foundation.

Biography: Phi Kappa Phi; Kappa Tau Alpha. Recipient: The Missouri Bar President's Award 2005 in recognition of efforts in maintaining a completely impartial judiciary; David J. Dixon Appellate Advocacy Award, 1996. Author: "Missouri Equitable Remedies, "Quo Warranto" (Mo. Bar CLE 2004); Missouri Civil Procedure Deskbook Series, Second Edition, "Rule 63 Trial Settings" (Mo. Bar CLE 2004); Missouri Civil Procedure Deskbook Series, Second Edition, "Rule 71 Verdicts" (Mo. Bar CLE 2004); Pleadings," Chapter Four, Missouri Civil Trial Practice (Mo. Bar CLE, 1996 and 2002); "Mandamus in Appellate Practice and Extraordinary Remedies," Chapter Twelve, Fourth Edition (Mo. Bar CLE, 1998); "Quo Warranto in Appellate Practice and Extraordinary Remedies," Chapter 14, Fourth Edition (Mo. Bar CLE, 1998); "Common Law Writs of Certiorari, Coram Nobis and Coram Vobis," Chapter 17, Fourth Edition (Mo. Bar CLE, 1998); "Organizing the File and Final Trial Preparation" Chapter 7 Missouri Civil Trial Practice (Mo. Bar CLE 2001); Chapter 14, "Quo Warranto," (Mo. Bar CLE 2002). Member: Missouri Board of Law Examiners, 1996�; Federal Practice Committee, 1997-2001.

Reported Cases: Montgomery v. South County Radiologists, 168 S.W.3d 685 (Mo.App. E.D. 2005); Wyper v. Camden County, 160 S.W.3d 850 (Mo.App. S.D. 2005); Nautilus Ins. Co. v. I-70 used Cars, Inc., 154 S.W.3d 521 (Mo.App. W.D. 2005); State ex rel. Larkin v. Oxenhandler, 159 S.W.3d 417 (Mo.App. W.D. 2005); Westfall v. Board of Governors of Truman State University, 154 S.W.3d 374 (Mo.App. E.D. 2004); Scott v. Scott, 147 S.W.3d 887 (Mo.App. W.D. 2004); Selby v. Selby, 149 S.W.3d 472 (Mo.Ap. W.D. 2004); Ostrander v. O'Banion, 152 S.W.3d 333 (Mo.App. W.D. 2004); McGuire v. Seltsam, 138 S.W.3d 718 (Mo. 2004); Davolt v. Highland, 119 S.W.3d 118 (Mo.App. W.D. 2003); White v. Camden County Sheriff's Dept., 106 S.W.3d 626 (M0.App. S.D. 2003); Pink v. Knoche, 1103 SW 3d 221 (Mo App. W.D. 2003); Bailey v. Bailey, 87 SW 3d 424 (Mo App. W.D. 2003); Coon v. Dryden, 46 SW 3d 81 (Mo App. W.D. 2001); Hampton v. Jecman, So SW 3d 897 (Mo App. W.D. 2001); Silvers, Asher, Sher & McClaren MDS Neurology, Inc. PC v. Batcho, 16 SW 3d 340 (Mo App. W.D. 2000); Arnold v. City of Columbia, 197 F.3d 1217 (8th Cir. 1999); Boatmens Bank of Mid-Missouri v. Crossroads West Shopping Center, 907 SW 2d 800 (Mo App W.D. 1995); In Re Marriage of Haynes, 913 SW 2d 73 (Mo App. ED, 1995); Nash v. Ozark Barbeque, Inc., 901 SW 2d 353 (Mo App. S.D. 1995); Welton Construction Co. v. High Point Shopping Center, Inc. 838 SW 2d 87 (Mo App. SD 1992); Mahoney v. Doerhoff Surgical Services, Inc., 802 SW 2d 503 (Mo 1991).