Professional
Highlights
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Successfully defending The Quadrant Corporation's Redmond Ridge and Trilogy
at Redmond Ridge urban planned developments in appeals to the Washington
Supreme Court and the Growth Management Hearings Board.
• Acting
as land use counsel for the University of Washington in the development
of its 2001 Campus Master Plan, which will govern campus development over
the next ten years.
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Representing Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in NASD arbitrations, enforcing
the terms of promissory notes given by former employees.
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Working in conjunction with PlantAmnesty, helping to create a perpetual
conservation easement providing legal protection for the first Heritage
Tree on private property in Seattle.
• Representing
religious institutions in securing and defending land use development
permits for the religious use of their property, including successfully
defending permits for Timberlake Christian Fellowship's 489,500-square-foot
church in rural King County.
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Land use counsel for a wide variety of residential and commercial developers
and single-family homeowners in Seattle and throughout Puget Sound.
• Law
Extern to the Honorable William L. Dwyer, United States District Court
for the Western District of Washington, Summer 1996.
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Admitted to practice before the Washington State Supreme Court and the
United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of
Washington.
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Professional
and Community Activities
Washington State Bar Association, Environmental and Land Use Law Section.
King County Bar Association; Trustee, Young Lawyers Division, since 2002;
Chairperson 2004-2005.
Volunteer Attorney, Fremont and Greenwood Neighborhood Legal Clinics,
since 1998.
Selected
Publications and Presentations
Co-Author, "State Environmental Policy Act," chapter 92, and
"National Environmental Policy Act", chapter 114, Real Property
Deskbook, Third Edition, Washington State Bar Association, 2001 Supplement.
Speaker, "The Endangered Species Act: The Practical Perspective,"
Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson, P.S., June 2000.
Education
Vanderbilt University School of Law, J.D., 1997.
Franklin and Marshall College, B.A., 1994.
University College, Oxford University, 1993.
Outside
Interests
I am an avid runner and, to my wife's relief, an erstwhile mountaineer.
Since reaching the summit of Mount Rainier for the first time in 1997,
I have been ascending peaks in the Cascades and in Alaska, including an
attempt on Denali in 1999. My first marathon in 2001 went beautifully
for the first 20 miles, and I have been developing an interest in Washington
wines since then to erase the memory of the last 6.2 miles.
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