Professional Status:
Partner practicing in Evans Keane LLP's Boise office; practice concentrated in product liability defense, litigation, commercial transactions and real property law.

Educational Background:
Graduated in 1982 from Boise State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Obtained Juris Doctor degree from the University of Idaho in 1985.

Professional Affiliations and Bar Memberships:
Member of the Idaho State Bar (Real Estate Section (Secretary/Treasurer 1996-1997) and Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law (Chairman 1998)). Admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Idaho (member, Local Rules Committee, 1987 to present); the United States Court of Appeals, Ninth and Tenth Circuits; and all courts of the State of Idaho.

Clerkship:
United States District Court, District of Idaho, Honorable Harold L. Ryan (1985-1987); Intern, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Honorable J. Blaine Anderson (1984).

Professional Instruction:
Lecturer and course instructor for continuing legal education courses in product liability and real property law. Presenter, "The Role of Federal Preemption in Product Liability Cases," Fourth Judicial District Bar Association (January 1994); "Idaho Real Estate Titles and Title Insurance," HMS Continuing Legal Education (May, 1997); "Buying A Small Business," Idaho Small Business Association (1998-1999).

Publications:
Author, "Local Rules of the United States District Court for the District of Idaho," The Advocate (May 1988); co-author, Idaho Submission, "Product Liability Desk Reference, A Fifty-State Compendium" (Little, Brown and Co.); Author "Legal Issues," Builder/Architect, Southwest Idaho Edition (April, 1997); co-author, Idaho Submission—Global Legal Update for Businesses, 1998 (American Corporate Counsel Association 1998).

Representative and Reported Cases:
Defense counsel in pharmaceutical, tobacco, fen-phen diet drugs, toxic shock, DPT vaccine, Baycol, automobile crashworthiness, L-tryptophan, agricultural chemical, agricultural equipment, and industrial product liability cases; Western Gas v. Woods Petroleum, 15 F.3d 981 (10th Cir. 1994) (obtained judgment on counterclaim for $2.7 million).

Representative Clients (Personal):
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.; American General Finance, Inc.; Aurion Technologies, Inc.; Domino's Pizza; Edward Jones Investments; E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company; Fisher Controls International; Flexi-Coil, Ltd.; GlaxoSmithKline; Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.; Hyundai Motor America; Las Vegas Golf & Tennis, Inc.; Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing;  Atria group (Formerly Philip Morris, Inc.); Riley Stoker Corporation; RJR Nabisco, Inc.; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Showa Denko, K.K.; Stewart Title Company; Stronghold Construction; Syngenta; Volkswagen A.G.; Volkswagen of America, Inc.; and Wyeth.