Practice areas include trial practice with an emphasis in insurance defense and coverage issues, product liability, professional liability, civil rights defense, constitutional law, defense of municipalities, legal malpractice, and libel defense. Selected for inclusion in the Rising Stars list published in 2010 Indiana Super Lawyers®.

Education

·         University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A., 1994)

·         Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville (J.D., 1998)

Member

·         Kentucky Bar Association

·         Indiana Bar Association

§   Member of the Litigation and Young Lawyers sections; currently serving as a Council Member At Large for the ISBA/YLS Officers & Council

·         Defense Research Institute

§   Publications Chair for the Governmental Liability Section

·         Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana

·         Floyd County Bar Association

·         Louisville Bar Association

§   President, 2005-2006

·         Louis D. Brandeis Journal of Family Law

·         One Southern Indiana Chamber of Commerce

·         Sherman Minton American Inns of Court

·         Indiana Municipal Lawyers Association

·         International Municipal Lawyers Association

·         Leadership Southern Indiana

Author & Speaker

·         "School Notification of Students' Sexual Offense Convictions: Does It Protect Our Children or Impede Quality Education?" Journal of Law and Education, 1997

·         “42 U.S.C.§1983 – The Basics,” Defense Research Institute Civil Rights and Governmental Tort Liability Seminar, 2004 (speaker)

·         “In or Out - Should It Matter; Does 42 U.S.C.§ 1997a Apply to Claims of Former Prisoners?”, DRI Governmental Liability Committee Newsletter, Winter, 2004

Admitted to Practice

·         Admitted to bar, 1998, Kentucky; 1999, Indiana

·         Admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana and Western District of Kentucky

·         Admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

Place of Birth

        ·         Blowing Rock, North Carolina, January 26, 1972