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| Practice Areas | Civil Litigation; Commercial Construction; Surety Defense; Civil Appeals | | | Education | William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, J.D., magna cum laude, 2002, University of Illinois, B.A., 1992 | | | Admitted | 2003, Nevada, U.S. District Court, District of Nevada and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit | |
| Memberships | American Bar Association, Tort Trial (Member, Fidelity and Surety Law Committee and Insurance Practice Section); State Bar of Nevada (Member, Sections on: Public Law; Construction). | | | Born | Park Ridge, Illinois, 1970 | | | Biography | Author: "Proliferation and Expansion of America's Airports at the Expense of its Treasured Parks and Preserves: Judicial Perversion of the Term 'Use' in Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act," 3 Nev. L.J. 613 (2003); "Public Entities in Nevada Beware: The Liquidated Damages Clause in Your Construction Contract May Be Unenforceable," Nevada Lawyer, (Nevada State Bar), October 2004; "Sibling Rivalry: How the Doctrine of Subsuretyship Places the Contractor License Bond Surety in the Position of 'Little Sister,'" IADC Fidelity and Surety Committee Newsletter, October 2004; "Use of Publicly Owned Land: Two Proposed Las Vegas Airports Might Test the Limits," Desert Report, (Sierra Club), Summer 2004; "Fraudulent Joinder: A Plaintiff's Newest Procedural Device to Destroy Diversity Jurisdiction, Communique," (Clark County Bar Association), February 2005; "Surety May be Liable for Attorneys' Fees Beyond the Penal Sum of Bond, Construction Lawyer," Summer 2004; "Negligent Spoliation: Nevada Case Reaffirms that a Failure to Preserve Evidence Need Not be Intentional to Result in Severe Sanctions," IADC Product Liability Newsletter, August 2005. Member, Nevada Law Journal. Adjunct Professor, Legal Writing, 2007—. | | | Reported Cases | Insurance Co. of the West v. Gibson Tile Co., Inc., 134 P.3d 698 (Nev. 2006); Hartford Fire Ins. Co. v. Trustees of Constr. Industry, 125 Nev. 16-P.3d (2009). | | | ISLN | 915265303 | |
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