Admitted
1989, Texas; 1992, Missouri; 1990, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas and U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri
Law School
University of Missouri, J.D., 1989
Law School Graduation Year
1989
College
Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan; University of Missouri, B.A., 1983
Memberships
The Missouri Bar; State Bar of Texas; Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Director, 1994-2000); National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Biographical
Member: Order of the Barristers; Journal of Dispute Resolution; Board of Advocates; National Moot Court. Recipient: Thomas E. Deacy Prize in Advocacy; Ike Skelton, Sr. Award in Trial Practice; Thomas D. Cochran Community Service Award, Missouri Bar Association; Missouri Lawyers Weekly, Lawyers of the Year, 2001. Author: Cool Hand Lawyers: White Collar Crime and Tactics of the Prosecution and Defense, 1989 Journal of Dispute Resolution 107. Co-Author: Bank Fraud, Financial Privacy and the Grand Jury Subpoena, Vol. 4, No. 1, Corporate Criminal Liability Reporter 32, 1990; Recent Developments: The Uniform Arbitration Act, 1989 Journal of Dispute Resolution 237; The Environmentally-Bankrupt Bankrupt, State Bar of Texas, Advanced Business Bankruptcy Course, April, 1990. Speaker: Missouri Bar Criminal Law Practice Institute, 1993—; Post Conviction Motions for DNA Testing, Missouri Trial Judges College, 2002. Co-Founder, Lost & Found (children's grief center).