Member

Representative Matters

• Advice on employment, safety and health compliance issues
• Development and implementation of employment, safety and health programs, including OSHA and MSHA required policies
• Supervisor training and education
• Assistance with or supervision of OSHA and MSHA inspections
• Catastrophic and fatality accident investigation and coordination, including OSHA/MSHA, emergency response, law enforcement, insurance and public relations concerns
• Defense of citations before the federal Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, the federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, and numerous state plan occupational safety and health boards
• With the assistance of criminal defense counsel, defense of state and federal safety and health criminal prosecutions
• Secretary of Labor v. Stahl Roofing, Inc., Nos. 00-1268 and 00-1637 (Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, 2003) (Fall protection citations vacated on employee misconduct defense)
• Secretary of Labor v. Mobile Premix Concrete, Inc., No. 95-1192 (Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, 1997) (Willful confined space citations reduced to "Serious")
• Frank et al., v. U. S. West, Inc., No. 92-1120 (10th Cir., 1993) (Parent corporation not liable for Title VII and Age claims against subsidiaries)
• Secretary of Labor v. Continental Oil Company, No. 79-570E (Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, 1984) (Electrical citations vacated in refinery explosion case)
• Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee v. Employer's Unity, Inc., et al., No. 845A38 (Colo. Sup. Ct. 1986) (Law allowing non-attorneys to represent employers and employees in unemployment hearings and appeals upheld)

Professional Activities

• Member, American Bar Association Committee on Occupational Safety and Health
• Chairman of the Board of Directors, Colorado Safety Association
• Past-Chairman, Colorado Bar Association Labor Law Committee

Education

• Juris Doctor, University of Colorado School of Law, 1975
  
  • Articles Editor, Colorado Law Review
• Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, University of Colorado, 1970

Previous Experience

• Clerk to Chairman, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, 1975