Education: University of California at Los Angeles (A.B., 1969; J.D., 1972).

Mediation Training: Pepperdine University Institute for Dispute Resolution, “Bankruptcy Mediation,” 1995.  Program on Negotiation, Harvard University, “The Program on Negotiation for Senior Executives,” 1995.  Mediator, United States Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California, 1995 to present.

Author: “The Practical Aspects of Claim and Delivery,” 51 Los Angeles Bar Journal 121, 1975.

Co-Author: “Serving on the Creditors’ Committee,”  “Non-Bankruptcy Workouts,” “Out of Court Arrangements” and “Alternatives to Insolvency Proceedings:  Can They Really Happen?” published in Practicing Law Institute National programs on Business Loan Workouts, 1983-1987.

Lecturer: California Continuing Education of the Bar programs on: Handling Debt Collection Matters; Commercial Law; Attachments, Claim and Delivery and Receiverships; The New Enforcement of Judgments Law; The Enforcement of Judgments Law – One Year After Its Effective Date; Bankruptcy Practice After the 1984 Code Amendments; Fundamentals of Bankruptcy; Introduction to Bankruptcy. Practicing Law Institute national programs on Business Loan Workouts, 1983-87. Orange County Bankruptcy Forum programs on Pre-trial Preparation In Bankruptcy Adversary Proceedings; Unveiling the Secrets of Valuation and Interest Rates; and the 1st Annual Bankruptcy Mediation Symposium. Association of Insolvency Accountants, Valuation Conference, program on Cash Collateral Valuation Issues. Orange County Bar Association, Real Estate Section, featured speaker on Chapter 9 Bankruptcy from the Real Estate Practitioner’s Perspective.

Professional Affiliations: The State Bar of California; District of Columbia Bar; Orange County and District of Columbia Bar Associations; Orange County Bar Association (Section on Commercial Law and Bankruptcy); Orange County Bankruptcy Forum (Founding Member); Member, Board of Directors, Orange County Bankruptcy Forum, 1989-1994; President, Orange County Bankruptcy Forum, 1992; Member, Board of Directors, California Bankruptcy Forum, 1990 – 1999; President, California Bankruptcy Forum, 1997-1998; Co-Chair, California Bankruptcy Forum Statewide Conference, 1994.

Member: American Bar Association; State Bar of California; Orange County Bar Association, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Sections; Orange County Bankruptcy Forum; American Bankruptcy Institute. Certified Public Accountant in State of Nevada (1985-1990); Member of the Nevada Society of Certified Public Accounts (1985-1990); Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (1985-1990). Admitted to practice in all California state courts; all California federal courts; the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (March 2005).