Omicron Delta Kappa. Mortar Board. Staff Member, The Tax Lawyer, 1987-1988. Legislative Assistant, Congressman Howard Wolpe, 1985-1986. Appointed, Governor's Task Force on Civil Justice Reform, 1999. Speaker: "MSHA Inspection Strategies," Colorado Safety Association, May 1999; "Handling Special Investigations," California Mining Association, May 2000; "OSHA Enforcement Trends," Colorado Division of Workers' Compensation Educational Conference, June 2001; "Community Relations and Crisis Management," National Western Mining Conference, February 2004; "Crisis Management," Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute, June 2006; "Headlines Produce Change: OSHA's Proposed Rule for Cranes and Derricks in Construction," Workplace HR & Safety, December 2008; "MSHA Discrimination Complaints: How to Avoid Them and What to Do When You Get One," Industrial Minerals Association - North America, December 2009; "Why Don't You Talk to Me Anymore? Understanding and Navigating MSHA's Citation Conference Procedures," Industrial Minerals Association - North America Technology Workshop, February 2010; "MSHA's Rules to Live By - Ready or Not, Here it Comes," Industrial Minerals Association - North America, March 2010; "Seeing the Forest for the Trees: How Mine Act Liability Impacts Your Business' Bottom Line," Industrial Minerals Association - North America, September 2010; "The Bar Moves Again - MSHA's New Pattern of Violations Criteria," Industrial Minerals Association - North America, October 2010; "The Song Remains the Same - An Update on MSHA's Legislative and Regulatory Agenda," Industrial Minerals Association - North America Technology Workshop, March 2011; "Regulators and Management: Friend, Foe or Something in Between?" Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME), March 2011. Author: "Don't Let Language Barriers Endanger Employees," Denver Business Journal, May 2003. Co-Author: "A Field Guide to MSHA," September 2009; "Workplace Violence: An American Secret," Labor and Employment Law (2010); "A New Sheriff in Town: The Obama Administration's OSHA Makeover," Construction Accounting and Taxation, January/February 2011. Contributing Author: Aggregates Manager; Coal Age. Instructor, Alternative Case Resolution Initiative. Member, Board of Trustees, Mesa State College, 2004-2005. Fellow: American Bar Foundation; Colorado Bar Foundation.