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Profile
I joined HCMP in 1999 after spending an invaluable year clerking for
Federal District Court Judge William L. Dwyer. Since then, my practice
has focused on business transactions, with a particular emphasis on real
estate-related matters, such as documenting loans for institutional construction
and subordinate lenders, creating partnerships and limited liability companies
for real estate developments, establishing condominiums and homeowners'
associations for developers, and advising businesses and individuals regarding
leases, easements, covenants, and the purchase and sale of real property.
I also counsel companies in a variety of business law issues, including
choice of business entity for startups, protection of trademarks and other
intellectual property, employment and partnership contracts, assets sales,
mergers and acquisitions.
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Professional
Highlights
• Documentation
and closing of construction and subordinate loans for Weyerhaeuser Realty
Investors, Inc., a leading construction lender operating in seven states,
and preparation and negotiation of appropriate loan agreements, deeds
of trust, inter-creditor and master developer subordination agreements
and related documents.
• Representation
of developers establishing homeowners' associations and new-construction
and conversion condominiums, including incorporation of nonprofit owners'
associations, review and analysis of survey maps and plans, and preparation
of declarations of covenants, conditions and restrictions, bylaws, rules
and regulations, and related documents.
• Representation
of several smaller to mid-sized companies companies providing services
ranging from architectural, to information and system management software,
to furniture design and manufacturing, on a variety of legal issues such
as corporate formation, partnership and limited liability company agreements,
employment contracts, protection of trademarks and other intellectual
property, negotiation of financing, and asset sales.
• Recognized
as a "Rising Star" by Washington Law & Politics,
2006.
• Law
Clerk to the Honorable William L. Dwyer, United States District Court
for the Western District of Washington, 1998-1999.
• Drafted
federal regulations and assisted with the startup of the AmeriCorps national
service program in Washington, D.C., 1993-1995.
• Admitted
to practice in Washington and the United States District Court for the
Western District of Washington.
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Professional
and Community Activities
Washington State Bar Association; Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental,
Corporate, and Intellectual Property sections.
King County Bar Association.
Selected
Publications and Presentations
Author, "Regulating Research on the Terminally Ill: A Proposal for
Heightened Safeguards," Journal of Contemporary Health Law and
Policy (1999).
Author, "Double Indemnity for Operators of Nuclear Facilities? In
Re Hanford Nuclear Reservation Litigation, the Price Anderson Act, and
the Government Contractor Defense," Washington Law Review (1997).
Education
University of Washington School of Law, J.D., with high honors, 1998.
Order of the Coif. Executive Notes & Comments Editor, Washington
Law Review, 1997-1998. Teaching Fellowship, 1996-1997. Scholarship
for highest first-year grades, 1996.
Columbia College, Columbia University, B.A., 1991.
Outside
Interests
Lately, I spend most (actually, almost all) of my free time trying to
keep up with my two young children. But whenever I have time, I enjoy
almost anything outdoors and athletic, including distance running, triathlons,
soccer, backpacking, skiing, snowboarding, and golf.
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