Professional Activities

  • Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Seiler, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri (1975 - 1976).
  • Visiting Professor of Dentistry, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry (teacher of dental jurisprudence and ethics) (1979, 1987 - 1993).
  • Lecturer, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (teacher of medical jurisprudence and ethics) (1987 - 1993).
  • Faculty Member, Appellate Advocacy Program, National Institute for Trial Advocacy
  • Reporter, New Jury Law Committee of the Missouri Bar's Judicial Administration Division (1984 - 1989). The committee consisted of five judges and myself. We researched and drafted a new comprehensive, state-wide statute which was endorsed by the Missouri Bar's Board of Governors, enacted by the 85th General Assembly as HB283 and signed by Governor Ashcroft in July, 1989.
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business Law, Rockhurst College (1980 - 1981).
  • Member, The Missouri Bar's Appellate Practice Project Committee (1988 - 1989, 1992, 1997).
  • Vice-Chairman, National Conference on Historic Preservation Law (1980).
  • Law Clerk to Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board of the U.S. (Summer, 1974).
  • Member of the Missouri Bar: Member, Board of Governors (1997 - 1999); Member, Civil Practice and Procedure Committee (1976 - present); Chairman, Appellate Practice Subcommittee (1988 - present).
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers: Chairman, Committee on Bibliography for Appellate Specialists. Membership in the Academy is by invitation only, is limited to no more than 400 practicing lawyers in the United States, and requires a minimum of fifteen years of successful experience in appellate advocacy. A nominee's professional work and character must earn the recommendation of adversary counsel and of the judges before whom he or she has appeared. The Academy elected me to Fellowship in 1993. I was the first Fellow elected from Missouri and the sixty-sixth member nationally.
  • Member of the American Bar Association: Member, the Section of Litigation; Member, Appellate Practice Committee.
  • Member of the Christian Legal Society.
  • Member of the National Lawyers Association: Chairman, Appellate Courts Section.
  • Member of The American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects - SCRIBES.
  • Member of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association: Chairman, Appellate Courts Committee (1984 - 1986, 1995).
  • Member of the Lawyers Association of Kansas City: Member, Board of Directors (1999 - 2005); Treasurer (2001 - 2002); Secretary (2002 - 2003).
  • Member of the Notre Dame Law Association: Missouri Chairman (1977 - present).
  • Member of the United States Supreme Court Historical Society.
  • Member of the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies: Member, Kansas City Attorneys Chapter.
  • Member of the Board of Visitors of Ave Maria School of Law, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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