Law School
South Texas College of Law, J.D., 1977
Law School Graduation Year
1977
College
University of Texas at Austin, B.A., 1974
Memberships
Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas; Texas Trial Lawyers Association (Associate Director, 1992; Committees: Medical Malpractice; Political); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Chairman, 1990; Member, Nursing Home Litigation Section, Discovery Abuse Committee).
Biographical
Lecturer: Utilization of Analytical Matrix Configurations to Measure Care Potentials: A System for Evaluating Quality of Care in the Long-Term Facility, Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Ninety-Eighth Congress, 1983; Trial of Nursing Home Neglect Case, Medicaid Fraud Source Book, National Medicaid Fraud Training Conference, 1986; Verdict and Settlement Expectancy in a Nursing Home Malpractice Case, Southern Trial Lawyers of America, Winter Convention Reference Material, 1990; Nursing Home Litigation Exchange-Litigation Report, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Annual Convention, 1991; To Sue or Not To Sue: Evaluating and Pleading Nursing Home Malpractice Cases, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Annual Convention, 1991; Nursing Home Litigation Report, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Annual Convention, 1996. Instructor: Identifying and Attacking Improper Answers to Request for Admission, State Bar of Texas, Advanced Evidence and Discovery Course, November 16-17, 1989; What the Hearsay Rule Really Means, State Bar of Texas Advanced Evidence and Discovery Course, November 1991; Damages Voir Dire in Nursing Home Cases, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Voir Dire Seminar, December 5-6, 1991; To Sue or Not To Sue: The Decisional Process of a Lawyer, Eighty-Sixth Annual Scientific Assembly of the Southern Medical Association, November 12-15,1992; Maximizing Recovery of Actual Damages, American Trial Lawyers Annual Convention, August 1-5, 1993; Recognizing and Combating Standard Defenses in a Nursing Home Case, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, 1994; Litigating the Nursing Home Neglect Case, Elder Law Institute, April 1995; Litigating Old and New Issues in Nursing Home Cases, State Bar of Texas Advanced Medical Malpractice Course, March 1997; New Issues in Litigating Nursing Home Cases, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Today's Lawyer is a Lean, Mean, Fighting Machine, May 1998; Closing Arguments: Punitive Damages, Meally Publications, January 25,