Practice Areas
ERISA and Employee Benefits, including qualified retirement plans, health plans, dental plans, life insurance plans, disability plans, vision plans, pharmacy benefit programs, third-party benefit administration, apprenticeship and training programs, employment law and human resources.
Representative Clients
Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, District Council 82 Defined Contribution Pension Plan, Heat and Frost Insulators Local 34 Health and Pension Plans, Plasterers and Cabinet Makers Health Care Fund, Sheet Metal #10 Benefit Fund, Finishing Trades Institute of the Upper Midwest, Local 17 Hospitality Benefit Fund, Greater Metropolitan Hotel Employers-Employees Health and Welfare Fund and Bar & Restaurant and On-Sale Pension Plan.
Admissions
State of Minnesota, 1994
U.S. Federal District Court, 1994
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 1995
Education
William Mitchell College of Law, 1994, J.D., cum laude
Rosalie Wahl Moot Court Finalist (1993); National Moot Court (1993)
Minnesota State University - Mankato, B.S.
Personal Information
Wife – Sue, two Children. Interests include golf and writing. Author of eight fiction thrillers, beginning with The St. Paul Conspiracy (2006) a Minnesota Book Awards genre fiction finalist nominee and Deadly Stillwater (2009), which was the 2009 Midwest Book Awards genre fiction winner.