Law School
University of Houston, J.D., 1967
Law School Graduation Year
1967
College
Centenary College, B.S., 1963
Memberships
Houston and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas (Member: College of the State Bar, 1989—; District 4 Grievance Committee, 1977-1981; Director, 1982-1985; Vice-Chairman, Coordination with Medical Profession Committee, 1981-1982; Member, Committee on Selection, Compensation and Tenure of State Judges, 1982; Chairman, Fact Finding Committee, 1985; Chairman, State Bar Journal Committee on Legal Articles, 1985; Vice Chairman, Coordination with other Professions, 1981; General Counsel Advisory Committee, 1983; Policy Manual Committee of the State Bar Board of Directors; Board Advisor to the Professional Efficiency and Economic Research (PEER) Committee, 1984-1985); Houston Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1977-1979; Chairman, Judiciary Committee, 1979-1980); Texas Trial Lawyers Association (Director, 1976-1986; Chairman: Nominating Committee, 1983; Family Law Committee, 1985); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Sustaining Member); Law Science Academy of America; American Judicature Society (Sustaining Member) Supreme Court Historical Society; Texas Association of Bank Counsel (Charter Member). Sustaining Life Fellow: Texas Bar Foundation (Fellow and Trustee, 1985-1988; Secretary, 1990-1991; Vice Chairman, 1991-1993); Houston Bar Foundation (Charter Fellow); American Bar Foundation (Fellow).
Biographical
Phi Alpha Delta. Author: Current Problems in Labor Law, Chapter Seven, The Union Power to Discipline Under the Taft-Hartley and Landrum-Griffin Acts: Two Gaps, University of Houston, pp. 58-73, 1966; Not Unlike a Felon, Baylor Medicine, January, 1968. Co-Author with John R. Finch, M.D., Psychiatric and Legal Aspects of Automobile Fatalities, Springfield, Charles C. Thomas, February, 1970; The Subsequent Treating Physician - Whose Witness?, Trial Lawyers Forum, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1989; Psychological Evidence in Probate Cases, Probate Law Journal, 1987; Effective Utilization of Legal Assistants, Houston Bar Association, October, 1985, Houston, Texas; Insurance and the Texas Tort System: Where Will the Crash Occurs?, Texas Bar Foundation, November, 1986, Austin, Texas; Psychological Evidence in Probate Cases, National College of Probate Judges, May, 1987, Naples, Florida; Preparing Witnesses for Deposition: Plaintiff's Perspective, Pretrial Tactics and Techniques for the Experienced Litigator: A Performance Enhancement Course, State Bar of Texas, May, 1987, Houston, Texas; How Clergy Can Try to Avoid a Law Suit, Galveston Convocation, February, 1989, Friendswood, Texas; The Current Status of Psychiatric Malpractice in the United States, Baylor College of Medicine, February, 1989, Houston, Texas; Preparing the Expert Witness for Deposition and Trial, Advanced Strategies in Obtaining and Using Evidence, August, 1989, Dallas, Houston, Texas. Lecturer: Overview of Recent Developments in Texas Evidence Law, Advanced Strategies in Obtaining and Using Evidence, South Texas College of Law, July, 1990, Houston, Texas; The Barrister-Solicitor Distinction - A U.S. View, Aspects of Commercial Litigation, Conference of Irish and American Lawyers, June 8 - 10, 1993, Kings Inn, Dublin, Ireland; Doctors and Nurses on Trial, The Texas Medical Legal Association, South Texas College of Law, April 23, 1994, Houston, Texas; Post-Daubert: The Current Status of Opinion Evidence Under Tex. R. Civ. E. 702:, Advance