Areas of Practice:

• Appellate Practice
• Automobile Litigation
• Business and Commercial Litigation Practice
• Collections
• Environmental and Toxic Tort Litigation
• Governmental and Administrative Law
• Insurance Litigation and Counseling
• Labor, Employment and Civil Rights Law
• Law Enforcement Liability
• Municipal Law
• Personal Injury, Products Liability and Premises Liability Defense

Education:

Southern Methodist University, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Texas Tech University School of Law, J.D., 1989

Admitted to Practice:

• State Bar of Texas, 1990
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, 1991
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1991
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, 1995
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, 2009
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1991

Professional Associations:

• State Bar of Texas
• Jefferson County Bar Association
• College of the State Bar of Texas (1994, 1997 – 2003)

Former Member of:

• Associated Builders and Contractors of Southeast Texas
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit

Professional Honors:

• Listed, Best Lawyers in America©, Personal Injury Litigation, 2021 – Present
• Listed, Best Lawyers in America©, Litigation – Labor and Employment, 2024 – Present