Business.  Preparation, enforcement, and defense of commercial and consumer contracts with an emphasis on promissory notes and security agreements, deeds of trust and mortgages, personal property and real estate leases, and construction agreements, including (but not limited to) mechanic's liens.

Debtor/Creditor Relations.  Preparation of financing documentation and performance of collection legal services in commercial and consumer matters for secured creditors, unsecured creditors, and defense for debtors with an emphasis in purchase money security interests and landlord-tenant legal matters.

Real Estate.  Commercial lease preparation, enforcement, and defense; residential lease preparation, enforcement, and defense; mechanic's lien law.

Criminal and Traffic Defense.  Representing more than 100 drivers each year in Kansas and Missouri for charges such as driving under the influence, driving while suspended, driving while revoked, careless and imprudent/reckless driving, automobile collisions, speeding, and other moving violations.  Regularly appears in all municipal and state courts in the Kansas City metropolitan area and represents various insurance companies and their insureds through subrogation rights.

Licensed to practice in Kansas and Missouri
Admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for Kansas and Western District of Missouri
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Kansas Bar Association
Member, Missouri Bar Association
Member, Kansas City, Metropolitan Bar Association
Member, Johnson County, Kansas, Bar Association
Member, American Association for Justice
Member, Missouri Association for Justice

University of Missouri at Columbia (1998, certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution; J.D., 1996, member of Missouri Law Review; B.S., 1993, Journalism, magna cum laude)