PRACTICE AREAS

• Represent business entities, ranging from very small to Fortune 100 companies, in handling all facets of their employment matters, including contract negotiations, labor arbitrations, NLRB proceedings, discrimination charges and suits, and worker`s compensation claims. Works on a daily basis with human resource personnel and in-house counsel to solve and prevent problems in the employment arena. Clients assisted on a regular basis include  Towne Air Freight, LLC., Ashley Industrial Molding, Inc., Key Fasteners, Steel Dynamics Inc., OmniSource Corp. and Colwell General, Inc.
• Admitted to practice before Indiana state courts, United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, Ohio state courts, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Mediator, Alternate Dispute Resolution

EXPERIENCE

• Represented hundreds of supervisor training sessions throughout the United States.
• Emphasis in the transportation and manufacturing sector including extensive practice and representation of business entities with Union workers.
• Extensive strike activity experience. Defended hundreds of unemployment claims by striking workers, handled contempt charges brought against individuals and local Unions. Handled litigation to cease property destruction at the striked facilities and the physical threat of harm to management individuals and temporary replacement workers
• Extensive trial experience defending employers in all areas of employment decisions, including a case in the Seventh Circuit regarding FMLA (Diaz vs. Ft. Wayne Foundry Corp., 131 F.3d 711 (Seventh Circuit, 1997))

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Represented a regional corporation in the termination of their President, who was believed to have been mishandling company assets.
• Defended drug enforcement policy of a company through jury trial.
• Represented several manufacturing facilities during downsizing negotiations with Unions.
• Partnered with clients to handle Union election campaigns in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan; and decertification filings in Ohio and Indiana.

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

• Presented more than 150 speeches and/or seminars ranging from local seminars for the National Business Institute, and the Counsel on Education in Management, to participating in nationwide seminars including the Defense Research Institute`s Seminar on Litigation
• Member of the Allen County, Indiana, and Ohio Bar Associations
• Fellow, Indiana Bar Foundation

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Board of Directors, Hope House (2010-current)
• Fort Wayne Mad Anthony Member (2007-current)
• Board of Directors, Blue Jacket, Inc. (2011-current)
• Past Board of Directors, McMillen Health Center, President (2008- 2009); Vice President (2003-2007)
• Past Chair, Science Central, Inc. Board of Directors (member, 1994-2009),Executive Board member (1996-2002), Board Member (2007-2009)
• United Way Corporate Campaign Chair (2007-2008)
• East Allen County Schools Strategic Task Force (2008-2009)
• Past Chair, Allen County Bar Association, Labor Section

EDUCATION

• University of Notre Dame Law School (J.D., 1988)
• University of Toledo (B.B.A., Finance, 1985)