Areas of Practice
- Class Action
- Commercial Matters
- Litigation
- Product Liability
- Franchising Issues
- Trade Secrets
- Toxic Torts
- Insurance
Certified Legal Specialties: Civil Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization
Bar Admissions
- California
- Texas
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court Central District of California
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court Southern District of California
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
- U.S. District Court District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court Western District of Wisconsin
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. Supreme Court
Education
- University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia
- J.D. – 1979
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
- B.A. – 1976
- Honors: With Distinction
- Major: English and Government
Published Works
- Tort Causes of Action Against Lenders, State Bar of Texas Business Torts Seminar, 2009
- Issues Particular to Consumer Finance Class-Action Settlements, The Review of Banking & Financial Services 25(9), 2009
- Effective Approaches to Class Action Settlements, 14th Annual Consumer Financial Services Litigation Institute, 443-456, 2009
- The Hearsay Rule and Its Exceptions, HBA, Serialized Evidence Institute, 1981
- Unfair Competition, Trade Secrets and Commercial Disparagement, Texas Association of Defense Counsel, 1983
- Federal Preemption of Local Noise Control, 18 Virginia Journal of International Law 569, Spring, 1978
Honors and Awards
- Named among the Top 100 Attorneys in Texas by Super Lawyers, a Texas Monthly magazine, Thomson Reuters business, 2010 – 2011
- Named among Houston’s Top Lawyers by H Texas magazine, 2010
- Named among the 500 Leading Plaintiffs’ Lawyers in America by Lawdragon magazine, 2007
- “Super Lawyer” by Texas Monthly magazine, a Thomson Reuters business, 2003 – 2012
- Named among Houston’s 200 Best Lawyers by H Texas magazine, 2005
- Named one of Houston’s Top Lawyers for the People by H Texas magazine, 2005 – 2007
- Named one of Houston’s Top Lawyers by H Texas magazine, 2006 – 2007
- Texas Lawyers magazine 1999 Texas Lawyer of Year
- Recipient of the TLPJ Foundation’s Public Interest Achievement Award for his work as lead counsel in Cox, et al v. Shell, et al.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- State Bar of Texas, Member
- State Bar of California, Member
- American Bar Association, Member
- American Association for Justice, Member
- Houston Bar Association, Member
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Member
- Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation, Director, 1991 – 1998
- University of Virginia School of Law, Board of Trustees, 1998 – 2008
- National Trial Lawyers Association, Top 100 Trial Lawyers, 2011 – Present
- The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, Fellow
