Advises clients on a wide range of corporate, commercial and financial law matters, as well as Federal and state securities, legislative and regulatory matters, with a particular emphasis on financial institutions, housing finance and technology and e-commerce law.  Legislative and regulatory practice emphasizes issues affecting the structure and regulation of financial services firms. Technology and e-commerce practice emphasizes all aspects of electronic commerce law, including federal, state and global privacy and information security law.  Privacy and information security practice focuses on financial services and web-based enterprises.  Provides counsel to the firm with respect to its own technology contracting.

• Committee on Banking Law and Committee on Cyberspace Law, Section of Business Law, Computer Law Association, American Bar Association
• International Technology Law Association  (formerly, Computer Law Association)
• International Bar Association
• Financial Planning Association
  

• co-chair, Internet Governance Task Force, ABA Cyberspace Law Committee
• past co-chair, Internet Law Subcommittee, ABA Cyberspace Law Committee
• Advisory Board, Shidler eJournal of Law, Commerce and Technology, Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology, University of Washington Law School
• Editorial Advisory Board, Electronic Banking Law and Commerce Report
• past co-chair, ABA Cyberspace Law Committee Task Force on Online Alternative Dispute Resolution
• past co-chair, Working Group on Financial Services, ABA Report on the Global Jurisdiction Issues of the Internet—“Achieving Legal and Business Order in Cyberspace” 
• Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Executive Vice President and General Counsel
• Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Deputy General Counsel, Associate General Counsel and Assistant General Counsel
• past chairman, Savings Institutions and Mortgage Lending Committee - Section of Business Law - International Bar Association
• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Administrative Officer, Division of Trading and Markets
• frequent lecturer at trade association and professional association conferences
• Director - Oregon Knolls Homeowners Association
• frequent lecturer at trade association and professional association conferences