Retired Attorney, Currently Writing and Consulting
Projects Consultant--Available for business and litigation advice, analysis, drafting, and review of bids, complaints, contracts, constitutive documents, proposals, specifications, other general analysis, drafting, and review.
Specialties: corporate, securities, insurance regulatory, partnership law, civil and criminal litigation, military law (including federal and foreign claims, courts-martial, and legal assistance), creative writing, publication.
Schooling: Knox College (A.B., English Composition, Political Science, cum laude); University of Chicago (J.D.), US Army Armor School, JAGC School.
Honoraries: Delta Phi (academics), Quill and Scroll (journalism), Phi Beta Kappa (academic), Scabbard and Blade (military), Pi Sigma Alpha (political science), Bookfellow Creative Writing Scholarship, Bronze Star while serving in Viet Nam.
While in Active Law Practice Admissions--Illinois Bar; US District for the Northern District of Illinois; US District for the Central District of Illinois, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, US Supreme Court.
Authorships:
Scholarly Writing--Managing Limited Liabilities Companies, ICLE, 1995, What is Wrong with Takeover Legislation, 8 NIU Law Journal 293, 1988; Co-authored: Revised Illinois Limited Partnership Act and Illinois Limited Liabilities Company Act; Editor: The Illinois Business Corporation Act Annotations.
Creative Writing—The Commander’s Wife; Four Short Stories About (but not for) Children--Henry Warren, Fall, Sugar, and Capture the Flag; Marking Time; Hooked on Haiku; More Hooked on Haiku; Editor and Contributor to Best Hooked on Haiku Annuals of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020; Authored under Gregory Cliveden nom de plume: Being Blago; Kony and His Invisible Children; and The Conventioneers’ Guide to Cruzing Hillaryously Over Trump; The Conventioneers' Guide to the Party at the End of Its Universe; The Conventioneers' Guide to Eligibilizing BHO (All books available from Amazon, free from Kindle, and for purchase in paperback and eBook), and for purchase in paperback from Barnes & Noble, and other book retailers. Other legal, business, literary writing.
Positions--Captain, Judge Advocate General Corps, U.S. Army 1964-1967 (Fort Knox, Ky., Charlottesville, Va., Fort Gordon, Ga., USARV - Saigon, Viet Nam, 1st Cav. Division, An Khe, Viet Nam, Bronze Star recipient); Schiff Hardin Waite Dorschel & Britton, Chicago, associate 1967-1973, partner 1974-1978; Partner, Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Eiger, 1978-1985; Partner, McBride Baker & Coles, 1985-1992; Principal, George C. Hook, PC. 1985-1998. Retired. Select Projects Consultant, 1998 to current.