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Professional Standing

  • Licensed to practice law in Virginia and District of Columbia; admitted to practice before several federal courts.


  • Trained, certified and practicing mediator for court-directed mediation conferences.


  • Member, American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section.


  • Member, American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy and Resources. Past chair or vice chair of several Section committees.


  • Member, Association for Conflict Resolution, Virginia Mediation Network, Northern Virginia Mediation Service and Restorative Justice Association of Virginia.


  • Current member of the Department of the Interior's Royalty Policy Committee (RPC), a federal advisory committee; elected RPC vice chair in 2006, served as vice chair of RPC Subcommittee on Royalty Management, reappointed for 3-year term ending in 2012, and serve as chair of RPC Oil and Gas Valuation Subcommittee.


  • Recipient of 2002 Minerals Management Service Corporate Leadership Award for alternative dispute resolution activity.


  • Two-term member of Secretary of the Interior's original Royalty Management Advisory Committee (1986-1990).


  • Former trustee, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation; serve as faculty member for RMMLF CLE courses on OCS leasing and royalty management.


  • Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Energy Law and presenter at IEL conferences.


  • Author of leading articles on royalty management and transportation fuels.


  • Past guest lecturer at Georgetown University Law School and University of Houston Law School on regulation of transportation fuels under the Clean Air Act.


  • Admitted to patent bar as patent agent.


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