PRACTICE AREAS

• Business formations, transactions, mergers and acquisitions
• Commercial foreclosures, receiverships, bankruptcy, workouts, and reorganizations
• Admitted to practice before the Indiana state courts, and the United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana and United States District Court of Colorado

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Corporate counsel, Do it Best Corp. and for numerous closely-held corporations, including: Ottenweller Company, Inc., Bhar, Inc.; Al-Fe Heat Treating, Inc.; TE, Inc.; T.J. Nowak Supply Co., Inc.; Sports Care, Inc.; and Synder Food Services, Inc.
• Regular counsel for Lake City Bank, Tower Bank, People`s United Equipment Finance Corp., and Grabill Bank

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

• Member, Allen County Bar Association, Indiana State Bar Association (Business and Bankruptcy Sections)
• Member American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI)
• Vice Chair of Allen County Bar Association Grievance Committee and Ethics Committee
• Member, Financial Executives International
• Acknowledged co-author and editor, Bankruptcy - "A Survival Guide for Lenders, American Bankruptcy Institute", Deborah L. Fletcher and Thomas P. Yoder
• Author, "Collecting a Judgment; The Legal Issues of Problem Collections In Indiana", National Business Institute, Inc.
• Co-Author, "Bankruptcy: A Basic Review", Indiana Continuing Legal Education Foundation, ICLEF

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Named a 2011 Person of the Year by the Notre Dame Club of Fort Wayne/Northeast Indiana for professional and civic accomplishment
• Past-President, Board of Directors, Fort Wayne Zoological Society (President 2008-2009)

EDUCATION

• DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois (J.D., 1986)
• University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (B.A., Economics, 1983)