Practice Areas: Appellate Law; Civil Practice; Family Law; Domestic Relations Law; Real Estate Law; Immigration and Naturalization Law.

Admitted: 1980, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois Including Trial Bar; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

Law School: Loyola University, School of Law, Chicago,IL, J.D., 1980

College: Beloit College and Loyola University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1975

Member: Illinois State Bar Association; Appellate Lawyers Association (Editor, The Brief, 1989-1994; Director, 1988-1990; 1996-1998); American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Publications: Co-author with Errol Zavett: "Appeals," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Family Law Handbook, 1984
Editor, The 1990 Report of the Illinois Task Force on Gender Bias in the Court.

Languages: Spanish.