Areas Of Practice

• Real Estate And Commercial Leasing
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Law

Publications

• Author: West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 62, pp. 94, 209, 263 and 398; Vol. 63, pp. 79 and 348.
• Co-Author: "The Structure of the Energy Markets: A Report of TVA's Antitrust Investigation of the Coal and Uranium Industries," 1977, 1979 Update.

Positions Held

• Assistant Professor, College of Law, The University of Tennessee, 1962
• Arthur B. Hodges Professor of Law, College of Law, West Virginia University, 1977, 1978
• Lifetime Delegate to Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference
• Assistant General Counsel, 1969-1972, Associate General Counsel, 1972-1973, Deputy General Counsel, 1973-1975, General Counsel, 1975-1986 and Chairman, Board of Directors, Retirement System 1975-1986, Tennessee Valley Authority
• Director: Regal Cinemas, Inc., 1989-1998
• Paribas Concorde Trust, Ltd., 1986-1992
• President, Knoxville Symphony Society, 1997-1998
• Chairman, Board of Directors, Knoxville Symphony Foundation

• State Bar Of Tennessee, 1988
• State Bar of West Virginia, 1961
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Sixth Circuits, 1973
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1976
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, 1978
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 1981
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1982
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee, 1987

• Phi Delta Phi. Member
• Student Board of Editors, West Virginia Law Review, 1960-1961

A.B., Concord College, 1958