• Focuses client practice on a single issue of central importance to companies today - how best to manage company records and digital data
• Preparing, validating, and updating records retention scheduling for all United States jurisdictions
• Advising companies on records management compliance systems
• Counseling companies on legal hold processes

Representative Clients

• Agilent Technologies Inc.
• Applebee's International, Inc.
• Avalon Pharmaceuticals
• Ciba Specialty Chemicals
• Delphi Corporation
• Entergy Corporation
• Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
• Genentech
• Georgia-Pacific LLC
• H&R Block, Inc.
• Koch Industries, Inc.
• Lockheed Martin Corporation
• NV Energy, Inc.
• Saint Luke's Health System

• Recruiting and Career Development Partner, 2000
• Named as Partner, 1992
• Joined firm as Associate, 1985

• Speaker, “The New Paradigm for Cost-Justifying Electronic Records Management: Privacy & Information Security Compliance,” Managing Electronic Records (MER) Conference, May 2010
• "Understanding the Wolf Before You Meet: Be Prepared For Your Rule 30(b)(6) Deposition," National Conference on Managing Electronic Records, Chicago, Illinois, 2009
• “Be Prepared for Your Rule 30(b)(6) Deposition,” ARMA International Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008
• “Disclosures & Preservation of Not Reasonably Accessible ESI,” Sedona Conference Mid-Year Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2008
• “Who’s Your Data? A Reality Check on E-Discovery and Litigation Readiness,” Recent Developments in the Law, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 2008
• “The Preservation Duty and Legal Holds,” KCMBA Bench-Bar Conference, Missouri, 2007
• “The Federal Rules Amendments” and “Preservation of Data,” KCMBA e-Discovery in the Heartland Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, 2006
• “Legal Aspects of Records Retention and Preservation,” Overland Park, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri, 2006
• Testimony before the Civil Rules Advisory Committee on the proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure regarding electronic evidence discovery, Dallas, Texas, 2005
• “The Impact of Recent E-Discovery Reports: The Sedona Principles v. ABA Civil Discovery Standards,” Kroll Ontrack Conference, New York, 2004
• “Records Management in the Electronic Age,” Greater Houston Business Ethics Roundtable, Houston, Texas, 2004
• “Corporate Records Compliance,” St. Louis Chapter of ARMA International, St. Louis, Missouri, 2003
• “You’ve Got Mail . . . Forever,” ALA 32nd Annual Conference, San Diego, California, 2003
• “E-mail Management: Big Problems and Best Practices,” Digital Discovery & e-Evidence, Vol. 3, No. 1, January 2003
• “In the Wake of Zubulake: New Judicial Approaches and Their Implications for Litigants and Their Lawyers” and “Audits & Preservation: How to Manage Electronic Data, Control Costs & Avoid Spoliation,” Glasser Legal Works Seventh Annual Electronic Discovery and Records Retention Conferences, Chicago, Illinois, and San Francisco, California, 2003
• “E-document Retention, Preservation, and Spoliation,” DataTrail Electronic Discovery Seminars, Los Angeles, California, and New York, 2002
• “Legal Issues in Managing E-mail Use and Data,” Heartland Records and Information Management Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, 2002
• “Records Management and Risk Control,” Glasser Legal Works 6th Annual Electronic Discovery and Record Management Conference, Chicago, Illinois, and San Francisco, California, 2002

• Missouri, 1985

• J.D., University of Kansas, 1985
  Order of the Coif
  Kansas Law Review, 1983-1985
• B.S., University of Kansas, 1982

• AIIM International
• ARMA International
• Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
• The Missouri Bar
• Professional Development Consortium
• Sedona Conference, Electronic Document Retention and Production Working Group and Legal Holds and Inaccessible Data Project Teams

• INROADS Inc., Board Secretary, National Board of Directors