Professional
Highlights
• Represented
Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company in a variety of disputes, from comprehensive
plan designations of forest land to annexation issues for large developments.
• Represented
Snohomish County and Clallam County in appeals of their Comprehensive
Plans.
• Represented
Broadmoor Golf Club in various property and boundary issues.
• Represented
Courtney Love in connection with her Seattle residence.
• Represented
the owners of The Claremont Hotel in Seattle in complicated disputes over
the development of the hotel.
• Law
Clerk to The Honorable Jerome Farris, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,
1985-1986.
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Professional
and Community Activities
King County Bar Association; Pro Bono Service Award, 1989; Chair, Committee
on Literacy, 1991-1993.
World Affairs Council; Trustee, 1991-1996.
KUOW and KCMU Radio Stations; Advisory Board.
PSF Mechanical, Inc.; Board of Advisors.
Selected
Publications and Presentations
Speaker and author, "The Three Vocabularies of Trees, Forests, and
Community Action," 1999 National Urban Forest Conference.
Author, "Trees and the Law: Five
Things Every Property Owner Should Know," TreeLink, Washington
State Department of Natural Resources Community Forestry Program, Spring/Summer
1997.
Education
Harvard University Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1985.
Harvard University, Ph.D., English, 1983.
University of North Carolina, B.A., summa cum laude, 1977.
Outside
Interests
Who says you cannot be a tough litigator and a sensitive new age guy?
In 1994, I won the Carlin Aden prize for the first-place poem in the Washington
Poets' Association state-wide annual poetry contest. It even rhymed.
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