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Admission Dates & Jurisdictions

  • 1995
  • State Bar of Texas

Education

  • J.D. (University of Texas School of Law, 1994)
  • B.B.A. (Accounting, University of Oklahoma, 1981)

Professional Experience

  • Kaeske Law Firm 1998-2004
  • Thompson & Knight 1997-1998
  • Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP 1995-1997
  • Supreme Court of Texas 1994-1995 (Briefing Attorney)

Honors & Awards

  • Listed in Texas Monthly and Texas Rising Stars Magazines, a Thomson Reuters service, “Texas Super Lawyer;” 2008-2014
  • National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers Award, 2013
  • American Association for Justice
  • Briefing Attorney for Justice John Cornyn, Texas Supreme Court; 1994-1995
  • Editor in Chief, Texas Law Review, University of Texas, at Austin, School of Law; 1993-1994

Professional Associations

 

  • Texas Trial Lawyers Association
  • Dallas Trial Lawyers Association
  • State Bar of Texas
  • Dallas Bar Association

 

Speaking Engagements

 

  • “Nursing Home Cases: You Can Still Do Them,” TTLA Best Kept Trial Secrets Seminar, 2014
  • “Nursing Home Litigation,” Big Country Trial Lawyers Luncheon, 2014
  • “Preparing Witnesses for Depositions,” Houston Law School CLE Program, 2003

 

Publications

  • “Minority Shareholder Oppression No Longer a Viable Cause of Action after Ritchie,” Dallas Bar Association Headnotes, 2014
  • “A Proposal to Limit Industrial Relocation Incentives,” Texas Law Review, Vol. 72, 1994