More Than 25 Years of ABA Experience

Chair, Website Oversight Task Force, 2010-2011

Member, Division for Bar Services, The Chicago Bar Association, President-Elect, 2010-2011

Member, ABA Board of Governors - Task Force on Federal Pleading Standards, 2010

Special Advisor to the ABA President, 2009 ABA Annual Meeting, 2008-2009

Member, House of Delegates, Exec. Committee of the Conference of State Delegates, 2007-2010

Chair, Standing Committee on Strategic Communications, 2006-2011

Member, House of Delegates, Committee on Issues of Concern to the Legal Profession, 2006-2008

Member, Task Force on Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Illinois State Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates, 2005-2014

Member, Nominating Committee of the ABA House of Delegates, 2005-2014

Co-Chair, 2005 ABA Annual Meeting Advisory Committee, 2004-2005

Member, Governmental Affairs Standing Committee, 2003-2006

Member, ABA Board of Governors - Task Force on Gatekeeper Regulation and the Profession, 2003-2010

Chicago Bar Association Delegate, ABA House of Delegates, 2003-2005

Member, Section Officers Conference Governance Committee, 2003-2005 

Member, Task Force on Asbestos Litigation, 2002-2003

Member, Board of Directors, ABA Museum of Law, 2001-2007

Chair, Task Force on Terrorism and the Law, 2001-2002

Member, Special Committee, Medical Professional Liability, 2001-2002

Section of Litigation Experience

Chair, Task Force on Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Member, Image of the Profession Task Force, 2004-2005

Member, Judicial Intern Opportunity Program Working Group, 2004-2005

Council Member, 2003-2005

Member, Civil Justice Initiatives, 2003-2005

Member, Aviation Litigation Committee, 2003-2005

Member, Civil Justice Institute, 2002-2004

Executive Committee Member, 1999-2003

Chair, 2001-2002

Chair-Elect, 2000-2001

Vice Chair, 1999-2000

Member, Special Committee on Reserves, 1999-2000

Member, Discovery Standards Task Force, 1998-1999

Founder, Co-Chair, Tips from the Trenches, 1998-1999

Member, Institute for Trial Practice, 1997-1999

Member, Discovery Task Force, 1997-1998

Co-Chair, Membership Committee, Task Force on the Recruitment of Plaintiffs’ Lawyers, 1997-1998

Member, Strategic Planning Implementation Committee, 1996-1997

Co-Chair, ABA Annual Meeting, 1995 Chicago, 1993-1996

Member, Federal Initiatives Task Force, 1995-1996

Member, Task Force on the Justice System, 1994-1995

Member, Strategic Planning Committee, 1993-1994

Member, Task Force on State of the Justice System, 1993-1994

Member, Coordinating Group on Civil Justice Reform, 1992-1993

Co-Chair, Task Force on the Adversary System, 1991-1992

Liaison, American Inns of Court, 1991-1992

Member, Products Liability Committee, 1988-2005

Co-Director, Division IV, Procedural, 1986-1987

Member, Task Force on Tort Reform, 1986-1987

Council Member, 1983-1986

Chair, Professional Liability Litigation Committee, 1982-1983

Co-Director, Division III, Programs, 1981-1982

Co-Chair, Manufacturers' Liability Committee, 1980-1981

Chair, Communications Committee, 1978-1980