Profiles

Areas of Practice

• Arbitration Advocacy
• Civil Trial
• Construction Law
• General Negligence
• Insurance Defense
• Insurance Law
• Nonsubscriber Representation
• Personal Injury Defense
• Pharmacy Malpractice
• Premises Liability
• Products Liability
• Trucking/Transportation/Transit
• Toxic Tort
• Wrongful Death

Certified Legal Specialties

• Personal Injury Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Bar Admissions

• Texas, 1985
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
• Supreme Court of Texas
• U.S. Supreme Court

Professional Associations and Memberships

• State Bar of Texas
• Senior Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
• Defense Counsel of San Antonio, Board Member
• Defense Research Institute
• Texas Association of Defense Counsel
• Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Chairman, 1996 – 2004
• Health and Human Services Advisory Council, Member, 2004 – 2009
• Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee, Former Member
• “Member, Pattern Jury Charge Committee – General Negligence, Intentional Personal Torts & Workers’ Compensation, 2007- Present”
• Trucking Industry Defense Association
• Trial Law Institute
• Diversity Law Institute

Education

• The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas
• J.D. – 1985 • Honors: With Honors • Honors: Order of Coif • Honors: Member, Pattern Jury Charge Committee – Personal Injury • University of Texas • B.B.A. – 1982

Litigation Percentage

• 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Classes/Seminars

• Former Adjunct Professor, Civil Practice, St. Mary’s School of Law

Classes/Seminars

• English
• Spanish