FIRM:
PRACTICE FOCUS:
Leader, Outdoor Sports Practice Group
EXPERTISE:
Provides general counsel services to and for non-profit businesses in Park City and beyond.
Represents businesses that operate in the recreational market.
Handles drafting and negotiation of sponsorship and licensing agreements, major sport event agreements, prosecution and protection of intellectual property, drafting of Olympic and World Championships athlete selection criteria, and counseling sports bodies and athletes on compliance with the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act.
Handles employment and labor law issues.
EDUCATION:
University of Utah, S. J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, J.D., Leary Scholar, 1996
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, B.A., cum laude, 1988
Dartmouth College’s Rassias Institute for French language instruction, Hanover, New Hampshire
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Utah State Bar
American Bar Association
COMMUNITY:
United States Delegate to the International Ski Federation’s Legal and Safety Committee
American Arbitration Association Drafting Committee – served during its revision to its rules governing the arbitration of Olympic doping disputes.
PRESENTATIONS:
Presenter at the Sports Lawyer’s Association’s annual conference.
Presenter at the United States Olympic Committee’s Legal Best Practices seminar.
Speaker at the Deer Valley meeting of the Association of Corporate Counsel.
PERSONAL:
Born, Yonkers, New York, 1966
