Practice areas

• General Civil Litigation
• Business and Commercial Law
• Condominium and Homeowners Association Law
• Labor and Employment Law
• Local Government Law
• Real Estate and Land Use Law
• Title Insurance and Closings
• Wills, Trusts, and Probate

Admitted

• Florida Bar, 1986
• Missouri Bar, 1986
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, 1986
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri, 1986
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida, 1988
• District of Columbia, 1988
• U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1988
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1990

Education

• B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1979
• J.D., University of Missouri at Kansas City, 1985

Military Service

• Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, 1979-1983

Associations & Professional Leadership

• The Florida Bar
• The Missouri Bar
• The District of Columbia Bar
• Designated as Florida Trend’s Legal Elite in Business Law, 2008
• Former Vice President and Board member of the Panama City Downtown Improvement Board
• Former Board member of Innovation Federal Credit Union
• Bay County Bar Association
• Panel lawyer for Aircraft Owners’ and Pilots’ Association
• International Air & Transportation Safety Bar Association
• Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association
• American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics