Political Experience

• 2004: National election counsel to Bush-Cheney ’04. Advised campaign on issues of national election law and litigation strategy and recruited and organized local counsel and oversaw election litigation in all battleground states. Delegate to Republican National Convention, Missouri State Republican Convention and Chairman of Missouri Republican Platform Committee and member of National Republican Platform Committee. General Counsel to Missouri Governor-elect Matt Blunt, Congressman Kenny Hulshof, and Congressman Todd Akin.
• 2003 – 2004: Vice-President and Director of Election Operations for Republican National Lawyers Association, Chair of National Election Law School and Seminar, Orange County, California, August 2003 and Milwaukee, Wisconsin in July 2004. Advisor to California State Party counsel on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger campaign and California recall election on Election Day operations and litigation.
• 2000 - 2002: Republican National Lawyers Association, Vice-President-Director Election Operations, Counsel to Bush-Cheney – 2000, Inc., Coordinated Missouri Election Day Legal Team and counsel in Bush-Cheney, 2000, Inc. v. Baker (see above), Broward County, Florida Recount Team – Observer, Counsel to U.S. Congressman Todd Akin and Missouri Republican Party, Missouri State Republican Convention – Alternate– Clayton Township
• 1988: Republican Candidate U.S. Congress, Missouri 3rd Cong. Dist – Successfully raised in excess of $200,000 and received campaign fundraising support from former Secretary of Interior, Don Hodel, former U.S. Senator Bill Armstrong and former U.S. Congressman Tom Curtis, Chairman.
• 1986-1987 - Reagan Administration – U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, Attorney-Advisor-Law Clerk.
• 1984 -1980 - Missouri Republican Convention, Alternate
• 1976 – National & Missouri Republican Convention, Page

Professional Experience
1997 – Present: Lathrop & Gage L.C., St. Louis, Missouri
Partner - Member

• General Counsel to Closely Held Businesses: Emphasis in real estate, technology, succession-planning and related transactions, tax matters and litigation. Manage and supervise other counsel assisting in these matters. Counsel clients in public policy matters and the formation and management of private foundations, trusts, faith-based organizations and philanthropic enterprises.
• Election Law and Government Relations: General Counsel to various federal, state and local candidates, political parties and campaigns. State and national litigation counsel to candidates for state and federal office. Expertise in compliance with state and federal campaign finance regulation, matters concerning the conduct of an election and litigation concerning these issues. Advise businesses on compliance with state and federal campaign finance regulation and political activity. Representation of clients in matters concerning compliance with regulatory action by Federal Election Commission and the Missouri Ethics Commission. Village Attorney and Prosecutor, Town of Grantwood Village, Missouri (1995 – Present). Representation of clients in various municipal law matters and related litigation. Regional counsel to major national wireless-PCS telecommunications firm on matters of federal Telecommunications Act and state and local government litigation and regulation. Committee Member to Help America Vote Act committee appointed by Missouri Secretary of State Matt Blunt to advise on implementation of Help America Vote Act and related state legislation and rulemaking.  General Counsel for the American Center of Voting Rights (ACVR).
• Recent Professional Accomplishments: National election counsel to Bush-Cheney, ’04. General Counsel to Missouri Governor-elect Matt Blunt, Congressman Kenny Hulshof and Congressman Todd Akin. Advise campaigns on various matters of campaign finance (state and federal), litigation before Missouri Ethics Commission and campaign communication and political advertising. Counsel for successful interveners in Hawkins v. Blunt federal litigation concerning Missouri provisional ballot procedures and the Help America Vote Act. Counsel for Bush-Cheney-2000 in Bush-Cheney, 2000, Inc. v. Baker, 34 S.W.3d 410 (Mo. App, 2000), successful emergency appeal quashing Circuit Court order holding polls open beyond legal closing hour. Counsel for Plaintiffs in Corbett v. Sullivan, St. Louis County redistricting litigation (federal civil rights action) in U.S. District Court. Successful redistricting on behalf of Republican plaintiffs and NAACP interveners. Counsel for U.S. Congressmen Todd Akin in Akin v. McNary, successful defense of primary election challenge. Counsel for Town of Grantwood Village in successful Fifth Amendment takings case in U.S. Court of Claims, Grantwood Village v. United States, 45 Fed Cl. 771 (Cl. Ct. 2000), (consolidated for partial summary judgment sub nomina Glosemeyer v. United States). Successfully negotiated a variety of complex real estate and investment transactions and related state and federal tax matters.

1988 – 1997: Ziercher & Hocker, P.C., St. Louis, Missouri
Partner - Principal

• General Counsel Closely Held Businesses (see description above) Additionally, real estate related environmental experience including federal Clean Water Act – Wetlands issues.
• Constitutional Law and Government Relations: Village Attorney, Town of Grantwood Village (1995 –Present).

• Selected for Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers, 2005
• Named as one of the Up and Coming Young Attorneys, "St. Louis Business Journal"
• Republican Candidate, United States House of Representatives, 1988 (3rd Cong. Dist.)
• Thor served as Attorney-Advisor with the Reagan administration from 1986-87.

• Author, Is There Life After the Clean-Air Act, In-Form: Journal of The American Oil Chemists Society. (5/95).
• Author, Legal Aspects of Doing Business In Missouri, Kluwer & West, Chapter on Missouri and annual updates, Doing Business in North America Series. (7/90-current).
• Author, Missouri Tightens Regulations of Underground Storage Tanks, St. Louis Business Journal. (4/91).
• Author, When Retirement Homes are Ad Valorem Tax Exempt, Missouri Bar Journal. (5/94-6/94).