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Licensed since: 1980
Law school: William Mitchell College of Law
Education: Carleton College, Northfield, MN, B.A., 1974
Professional activity: American Bar Association; American Bar Association (ABA) Intellectual Property Law Section (IPLS), Past Chair, Section Task Force Regarding Comments for China's Anti-Monopoly Policy; Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association (MIPLA), Council of American Bar Association (ABA) Intellectual Property Law Section 2015-2020; Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), Past State Chair, Law Day; Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association (MIPLA), Past Chair, International Committee; Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), Past Symposium Chair, MSBA Bar Media Committee; U.S. District Court District of Minnesota, 1980; American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law:; American Bar Association (ABA) Intellectual Property Law Section (IPLS), Chair, ABA Intellectual Property Law Section Division IV; American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS), Founding Chair, Animal Law Committee; Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), President of U.S. Delegation to the Paris-based Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA); American Bar Association (ABA) Intellectual Property Law Section (IPLS), Liaison to Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA); American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS), ABA Advisor to Uniform Law Commission Regarding Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act; Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), Chair and Moderator of The Right to Medical Treatment Program at 56th Congress; Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), Past Chair, Family Law Section Blue Ribbon Panel on Rules of Professional Conduct; Minnesota, 1980; Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), Past Member, MSBA Assembly & Legislative Committee; Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association (MIPLA), Past Chair, Copyright Committee; Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), Past Executive Committee, MSBA Computer Law Section; U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1983; Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), Course Chair for Seminar in Budapest, Hungary in 2014; American Bar Association (ABA), Past Liaison, ABA Special Committee on Disaster Response and Preparedness; American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS), Host, Emergency Management Podcasts for Legal TIPS; American Bar Association (ABA) Intellectual Property Law Section (IPLS), Past Chair, Insurance and Risk Management Committee; American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS), Section Liaison to Uniform Law Commission; Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), Liaison from ABA Intellectual Property Law Section; Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), Past Legislative Committee Member, MSBA Family Law Section; American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS), Past Liaison, ABA Special Committee on Disaster Response and Preparedness; Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), Past Chair, MSBA Bar Admissions Committee; Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association (MIPLA), Representative to State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO/US Bar Liaison Council); Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), Founding Chair, MSBA Art & Entertainment Law Section; U.S. Supreme Court, 1998; Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), Founding Chair, MSBA Animal Law Committee & Section; American Bar Association (ABA), Past Chair, ABA Emergency Management in Family Law Task Force; American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS), Past Chair, ABA Animal Disaster Relief Network; American Bar Association (ABA) Intellectual Property Law Section (IPLS), Past Vice Chair, ABA Intellectual Property Law Section Division VI; American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS), Past Chair, ABA TIPS Intellectual Property Law Committee; Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), President of Biotechnology Law Working Group; American Bar Association (ABA) Intellectual Property Law Section (IPLS), Past Co-Chair, Section Task Force on Reverse Payments; American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS), Member, Book Publishing Board