Areas of Practice

• General Litigation and Appellate Practice
• Corporate and Business Law
• Business Litigation
• Municipal and Public Law
• Planning
• Zoning
• Land Use
• Water Appropriations
• Stormwater Issues
• Development Law
• Family Law
• Asset Division
• Qualified Domestic Relations Orders
• Custodial
• Child and Parenting Issues

Bar Admissions

• Kansas
• Missouri

Education

• University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas, 1981
  Doctor of Jurisprudence
  Honors: National Moot Court Team
  Honors: American Jurisprudence Award for Appellate Practice and Procedure
  
  
• University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1978
  B.A.
  Honors: Member, Phi Beta Kappa
  Honors: With Distinction
  Honors: Member, Omicron Delta Kappa
  Honors: Member, Owl Society (Junior Men's Honorary)
  Honors: Sachem Circle (Senior Men's Honorary)
  Major: English
  Major: Economics
  
  

Published Works

• Guest Editor, Kansas City Star Newspaper

Representative Cases

• In the Matter of Crane, 39 Kan.App.2d 677, 143 P.3d 87 (2006)

Representative Clients

• City of Westwood, Kansas
• James Printing Company
• Heartland Golf Development
• Hillcrest Country Club
• Midwest Office Technology

Honors and Awards

• P.G. Wodehouse Society (U.K.)
• Kansas City Blues Society

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Westwood, Kansas, 1990 - 2008
  City Attorney
  
  
• District Court of Johnson County , Kansas, 2006
  Special Master
  
  
• City of Leawood, Kansas
  Judge Pro Tempore
  
  
• Kansas Bar Association
  
  
• Missouri Bar Association
  
  
• Johnson County Bar Association
  
  
• City Attorneys Association of Kansas
  
  
• Kansas City Chamber Orchestra
  President and Member, Board of Directors
  
  
• Westwood Foundation
  Member, Board of Directors
  
  
• House Corporation Board, Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity
  Member, Board of Directors
  
  
• PTA
  Vice-President
  
  
• Westwood View School
  Legislative Committee Chair
  
  
• University of Kansas Alumni Association
  Life Member
  
  
• Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity Kansas City Alumni Association
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Bennett, Lytle, Wetzler, Winn & Martin (Later Bennett, Lytle, Wetzler, Martin & Pishny, L.L.C.), Partner, 1987 - 1997
• Bennett, Lytle, Wetzler, Winn & Martin, Associate, 1981 - 1986

Pro Bono Activities

• Kansas City Chamber Orchestra
• Studio 804, Inc. (Design-Build Studio affiliated with the University of Kansas School of Architecture)
• Former Counsel Mission Area Chamber of Commerce
• Guest instructor at mock trial at the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Academy in Hutchinson, Kansas

Fraternities/Sororities

• Omicron Delta Kappa
• Phi Kappa Phi

Birth Information

• January 7, 1956, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America