PRACTICE AREAS

• Environmental compliance counseling for businesses and individuals
• Real estate transactions, specializing in environmentally impacted real estate, brownfields development, and tax-free exchanges
• Business transactions, including formation, acquisitions, sales and contracts
• Admitted to practice before the Indiana state courts and the United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

• Represented numerous businesses in negotiating and resolving environmental noncompliances with state and federal regulators
• Represented manufacturer in obtaining significant permit modification to Title V operating permit from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management
• Represented purchasers and sellers of and lenders secured by environmentally impacted commercial properties
• Represented steel manufacturer in environmental diligence, real estate, title insurance, and mortgage financing matters in acquisitions of steel manufacturing facilities
• Represented major regional metal processor and dealer in negotiating with insurers for settlements for environmental insurance claims
• Represented regional food manufacturing company in tax-free exchanges in real estate involving ten properties in three states
• Represented land owners and communication tower owners in tower site acquisition, sales and leasing of real estate located across the Midwest
• Represented and counseled dozens of small business owners on business formation and acquisitions
• Represents numerous nonprofit organizations

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Member, Allen County Bar Member
• Member, Christian Legal Society
• Board Member, Headwaters Park Alliance, Inc. (2007-present; President, 2007-present)
• Counsel to The Friends of the Parks of Allen County (2001-present)
• Counsel to Headwaters Park Commission (1997-2001)
• Member, Environmental Affairs Committee, Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce (1991-present)
• Volunteer Attorney, Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic
• Board Member, The Reclamation Project, Inc. (2009-2010)
• Member, Quest Club (2001- present)
• Graduate, Leadership Fort Wayne (1997)

EDUCATION

• Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (J.D., cum laude, 1989)
• Taylor University, Upland, Indiana (B.S., Business Administration, summa cum laude, 1986)