Practice

Concentrating on litigation, including business disputes, breach of contract actions, officer and director liability, securities litigation, derivative lawsuits, real estate
litigation, class actions, professional liability, and
trade secret litigation.

Peer Rating

- AV Rated, Martindale-Hubbell (highest ranking)
- Listed in Super Lawyers, Business Litigation 2007-2011

Community Commitment

President, San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program
(1997 – 1998), Current Director

Master, Wallace Inns of Court in San Diego; Team Leader

Lawyer Representative; U.S. District Court,
Southern District of California (Vice-Chair)

Lead Director, AMCON Distributing Company,
Omaha, Nebraska (AMEX: DIT)

Director, Amcon Corporation

Director, Premier-Midwest Beverage Company

President, PeoplePlanetPartnership.org

Director, Lifeboat Foundation, Chicago Illinois (1997-2007)

Chair of the Board (2006-2007), Imagine1day.org,
an international relief organization, Vancouver, Canada

Chairperson, San Diego County Ryan White
Health Planning Council (1996-2004)

Adjunct Professor of Law, California Western
School of Law (1996)

Sunday School Teacher, First Grade,
Solana Beach Presbyterian Church (1989-1997)

Founder, San Diego AIDS Project
Pro Bono Legal Clinic; and Co-Director (1987-1989)

Personal Interests

France, public speaking, diving, religion, art, boating, music, volleyball, politics, and travel

Professional Experience

Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP,
San Diego, California; 1986-2006

• -Chair, Business Litigation Department
• -Firm-wide Pro Bono Coordinator
• -Equity Partner: Litigation involving business, securities, partnerships, real estate, intellectual property and professional responsibility

Arnold & Porter, Washington D.C.;
1984-1986 Law Clerk

Holland & Hart, Denver, Colorado
1985 Summer Associate

Education

The American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. – Juris Doctor, 1986

• -Summa Cum Laude; Class Rank 3/331
• -The American University Law Review

University of Colorado at Boulder,
Bachelor of Sciences: Journalism, 1983

• -Cum Laude;
• -President’s Leadership Class Scholar
• -Dean’s List – School of Journalism

Decisions

+ In re Petco Animal Supplies Inc. Securities Litigation,
2006 WL 6829623 (S.D. Cal. 2006)

+ In re Fisher Financial & Investment LLC,
2011 WL 1898225 (9th Cir. 2011)

+ In re SureBeam Corp. Securities Litigation,
2005 WL 5036360 (S.D. Cal. Jan. 3, 2005)

+ Herring v. Teradyne, Inc., 242 Fed. Appx. 469 (9th Cir. 2007)

+ Sky Valley Ltd. Partnership v. ATX Sky Valley,
150 F.R.D. 648 (N.D. Cal. 1993)

+ Palestini v. General Dynamics Corp.,
99 Cal. App. 4th 80 (2002)