American Bar Association's Senior Lawyers' Division’s designated Observor to the drafting committees of the National Council for the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws’ Revised Uniform Arbitration Act ("RUAA"), Uniform Mediation Act ("UMA") and Revised Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act ("UMIFA"); that Division’s designated liaison to the ABA’s Dispute Resolution Section;

Retired as of January 1, 1996, but maintaining an office within Gardner, Carton & Douglas, a Chicago law firm, where these positions were held: Of Counsel: 1991-1995; Partner: 1967-1990; Associate: 1960-1966.

When in active practice, a specialist in commercial law and business and nonprofit corporate law, principally in transactional matters; expertise in futures law, computer systems and construction procurement and corporate governance matters; experience included representation of financial institutions, general civil litigation, bankruptcy trusteeship of a large futures commission merchant, securities offerings (public and private) and corporate restructurings (publicly and privately held), representing, principally, corporations and partnerships in for profit and nonprofit service businesses, including personal matters of their management and other controlling persons; former Chairman of the Firm's Corporate Department.

Illinois, 1956 (inactive); Florida, 1957 (retired, 1996); Wisconsin, 1989 (inactive); U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois; The Federal Trial Bar.

January 5, 1932; native of Winnetka, IL; married to Janis Lee Wellin; two children - one a lawyer employed by the Office Corporation Counsel of The City of Chicago and one self-employed in San Francisco, CA.

American Bar Association – Member, Dispute Resolution Section; member, Senior Lawyers Division and a Vice Chair of its Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee; member, Forum on the Construction Industry; member, Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law; former Co-Chairman of its Futures Law Subcommittee on Insolvency and Related Matters; former Co-Chairman of Model Nonprofit Corporation Act Subcommittee of Nonprofit Corporation Law Committee; The Chicago Bar Association - Member, Alternative Dispute Resoluton Committee; member and former chairman, Corporation Law Committee; former member, Futures Law Committee); Illinois State Bar Association - Member, Dispute Resolution Section; former member of its Corporation and Securities Laws Section Council and of its Business Advice and Financial Planning Section Council; Continuing legal education program speaker on corporate governance and limited liability company issues for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education; for IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law; for Northwestern University School of Law's Garrett Institute; for ALI/ABA (American Law Institute/American Bar Association) and for The Banking Law Institute (on secured creditors' dealings with bankruptcy trustees); former member of the Planning Committee for IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law's Annual Program for Nonprofit Organizations (1985-1989); The American Law Institute's Members' Consultative Groups for Restatements of (a) The Prudent Investor Rule, (b) The Law Governing Lawyers and (c) Trusts; chapters on "Directors and Officers' Liability" for Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education publications and for Northwestern University School of Law's Garrett Institute; introductions to the Illinois Secretary of State's pamphlet editions of the Illinois Not for Profit Act of 1986 (1986 and 1990 ed.) and the Illinois Business Corporation Act of 1983 (1987 ed.); introductory chapter on Organizational Procedure and Forms for Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education's "Organizing and Advising Not for Profit Corporations" (1987, 1990, 1992, 1994).

Chairman, Illinois Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on the Illinois Corporation Laws (1987-1988; member, 1982-1995); former Chairman of its Not for Profit Act Subcommittee (1985-1987); in the former role, a draftsman of the Illinois Business Corporation Act of 1983; in the latter role, a draftsman of the Illinois Not for Profit Corporation Act of 1986; a draftsman of the Illinois Limited Liability Company Act of 1992; former Co-Chairman, Illinois Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on the Illinois Commodities Laws; former Public Member, Business Conduct Committee, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc. (1997-1998).