PRACTICE AREAS

• ERISA and employee benefits, including counseling with respect to design and compliance issues pertaining to qualified retirement plans, 403(b) plans, 457 plans, and non-qualified plans, including the drafting of such plans
• Admitted to practice before the Indiana state courts

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

• Al-Fe Heat Treating, Inc.; Anthony Wayne Services; Avis Industrial; Berne Apparel Co.; Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co.; Do it Best Corp., Dynamic Resource Group, Inc.; Fort Wayne Community Schools; Grabill Bank; Hagerman Construction Corp.; LH Carbide Corporation; Kelley Automotive Group, Inc.; Lake City Bank; Lincoln National Corporation; Metal Technologies, Inc.; OmniSource Corporation; Pizza Huts of Fort Wayne, Inc.; REA Magnet Wire; Sauder Manufacturing Co.; Steel Dynamics, Inc.; Symmetry Medical, Inc.; Tower Financial Corp.; Wabash Electric Supply Co.; numerous medical/dental groups and non-profit employers

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

• Regularly Presents Speeches And Seminars On Employee Benefits Matters locally, regionally and throughout the Midwest.
• Author And Speaker, Best Of Great Lakes Workshops (Indianapolis)
• Author And Speaker, Great Lakes Area Employee Benefit Conference (Chicago)
• Author And Speaker For Numerous Indiana Continuing Legal Education Programs
• Bar Activities:
  • Member, Allen County Bar Association
  • Member, Indiana State Bar Association
  • Member, American Bar Association

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Board of Directors and former President, ASPPA Benefits Council of Northern Indiana
• President, Board of Directors, Cancer Services of Northeast Indiana
• Board of Advisors, Mad Anthonys Children`s Hope House, Inc.
• Past Board Member, YMCA of Great Fort Wayne

EDUCATION AND HONORS

• University of Michigan School of Law (J.D.)
• Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (A.B.)