Private legal Practice - Seattle Area                                                           2010 - present

Graduate school and college instructor                  Seattle, WA                               2001 – 2009

Teaching law and history courses at local colleges and universities

Integrate technology including multimedia and web interaction/tracking into instruction

Private legal practice                             Seattle, WA                                                   1985 – 2002  

Successful against Boeing in major litigation (jury trial with co-counsel) regarding international royalties        from clients’ (Boeing employees) patented invention

Successful against Microsoft in a major litigation driven settlement (after successful trial); wrongful termination settlement hinged on creative key proposal regarding tax treatment;

Litigation manager for national real estate syndicator

Corporate secretary, BOD, Environmental Technologies Inc.

Seafab Metal Corporation                     Seattle, WA                                                   1984 – 1996

Co-owner, vice president, and general counsel to national fabricated lead products company

Purchased and turned around this distressed business of 50+ employees on Superfund site

Managed union contracts, banking, customer, and supplier relationships

Negotiated Superfund liability and clean up with EPA and WA Department of Ecology

Negotiated sale of business to supplier

Forcefully negotiated sale of property to Port of Seattle in condemnation proceedings

Profitable every year

Private Legal Practice, Portland, Manufacturing in Los Angeles;                              1970 - 1975

     Represented  aerospace manufacturer, software developers and foreign corporations.

Tamblyn & Bush (successor still in business) Portland, OR                                1975 – 1988

Founder, senior and managing partner of 14 lawyer general practice law firm

Practice emphasized corporate and real estate law including: Acquisitions, complex joint venture transactions, dealerships, and intellectual property, closed sales on substantial parcels of real property;

Represented foreign purchaser of American corporation

Negotiated and drafted sales-rep and joint venture agreements

Represented aerospace manufacturer, software developers and foreign corporations

Managed multi suit litigation, Drafted complex employee agreements, represented a group

  of Farmer’s Insurance agents with respect to their agency rights

Computerized the law firm including billing in the late 1970’s

Education

University of Washington, M.A. History; Ph.D. Candidate History

University of Edinburgh, M.Sc. World War II Studies; Winston Churchill Fellow

Cornell University Law School, J.D., Specialization in International Legal Affairs

Colgate University, B.A. English Literature, Political Science. 

Community involvement includes trustee or director: 

Central Area Youth Association (CAYA); Seattle, 4 years

Mercer Island Boys and Girls Club – 4 years

Forest Ridge School – 6 years

Lutheran Compass Center for Homeless – 10 years

Bar Certifications

Member Oregon State Bar (currently inactive)
numerous State Bar committees including chairmanships

Member (reactivated May 2010) Washington State Bar

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals