Practice Areas: ERISA and Employee Benefits, including qualified retirement plans, health plans, dental plans, life insurance plans, disability plans, vision plans, pharmacy benefit programs, third-party benefit administration, apprenticeship and training programs, multiple employer welfare arrangements, employment law and human resources.
Representative Clients: Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, Asbestos Workers Local 34 Health and Pension Plans, Plasterers and Cabinet Makers Health Care Fund, Twin City Glaziers Health and Welfare Plan, North Dakota Grain Dealers Association Benefit Plan and Trust, City of Fargo Medical Plan, Twin Cities Vicinity Conference Board Pension Plan.
Admissions: State of Minnesota, 1994 U.S. Federal District Court, 1994 U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 1995
Education: William Mitchell College of Law, 1994, J.D., cum laude Rosalie Wahl Moot Court Finalist (1993); National Moot Court (1993)Minnesota State University - Mankato, B.S.
Professional Memberships/Affiliations: Member, Hennepin County Bar Association Member, Minnesota State Bar Association Member, American Bar Association
Personal Information: Wife – Sue, two Children. Interests include reading, writing and golf. Author of two fiction thrillers, The St. Paul Conspiracy Theory (2006) and Deadly Stillwater (2009), which was the 2009 Midwest Book Awards winner for Genre Fiction.