
Biography
Honors
- Super Lawyers, 2013-2019
- Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2006-2012
- ALM/Martindale-Hubbell™, Top Rated Lawyer in Land Use and Zoning

Practice Areas
- Commercial Lending & Creditor Rights
- Land Use & Development
- Real Estate Law
Bar Admissions
- Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court Western District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
Education
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
- J.D. - 1998
- Michigan State University
- B.A. - 1995
- Honors: With Honors
- Major: Finance
Professional Associations
- State Bar of Wisconsin, Member
- Waukesha County Bar Association, Member
- Waukesha County Bar Association, Past President,
- Waukesha County Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, Past Chair
Civic Involvement
- Past Director, Waukesha County Economic Development Corporation
- Former Treasurer/Secretary, Community Housing Initiative, Inc.
- Advisory Committee, Waukesha County Courthouse Self Help Clinic
- Volunteer Coach - Merton Athletic Association Basketball
- Volunteer Coach – Arrowhead Junior Warhawks Volleyball
Representative Clients
- Foreclosure of a failed retail development for a community bank, including obtaining dismissals of multiple lender liability counterclaims alleging in excess of $5,000,000 in damages
- Due diligence counsel to a national investor for the acquisition of a loan pool exceeding $500,000,000 in unpaid balance
- Developer and borrower counsel regarding a 197 unit multifamily development including a $17,000,000 construction loan
- In and out of court liquidation of a $80,000,000 distressed loan pool for a national note buyer
- Chapter 11 counsel to a local lender for a 30 asset multi-family portfolio
- Represented a national big box retailer in multiple property tax challenges and appeals
- Chapter 11 counsel to an equipment lender secured by a fleet of 84 semitractors
- Obtained payment of $3,000,000 construction lien for a general contractor within a $100,000,000 multi-family foreclosure