Honors and Awards:

• Martindale Hubbel rated AV.  Member, Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Member, American Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, and the DuPage County Bar Association.

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• While in law school, I was an editor of the law review and published a Note, Ex Parte Contacts in Informal Rulemaking Proceedings:  Home Box Office v. FCC, 27 DePaul Law Review 489 (1978).

Other Outstanding Achievements:

• I have now authored a book, Handling the Business Emergency:  temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, published by the American Bar Association. The first half of the book explains how to seek or defend against such emergency injunctions (the rules and standards), bond requirements, how to draft orders, enforcement of an injunction if it is violated, modification and appeals, and strategy and tactics.  The second half of the book includes chapters on recurrent issues:  asset protection; infringement of trademarks, copyrights and patents; restrictive covenants; trade secrets, and shareholder disputes.  Each chapter includes text explaining the law and charts and forms as appropriate.,

Video:

• I teach an online continuing legal education course entitled "How to Keep Secrets:  the attorney-client privilege," that can be found at www.apexcle.com.