Senior Trial Attorney

• Highly experienced, twelve year, trial attorney with a book of business to add to and supplement any firm’s growth. I have been lead and second chair counsel in approximately 159 lawsuits. I also have extensive appellate experience in the appellate courts, the Texas Supreme Court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2008 and 2009, I successfully represented my clients in two cases which set the legal precedent for premises liability lawsuits against government entities. See, City of Corsicana v. Stewart, 249 S.W. 3d 412 (Tex. 2008) (per curiam); Denton County v. Dianne Beynon, et al., 283 S.W.3d 329 (Tex. 2009). • Real world experience managing a successful law practice. Represented clients in matters involving contract disputes, employment discrimination, business interference, Fair Labor Standards Act claims, Fair Housing Act violations, arbitration, premises liability and personal injury claims. • 2013, Inducted as a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum in which Members must have acted as principal counsel in at least one case in which their client received a verdict, award or settlement in the amount of 1 million dollars or more. Membership is limited to less than 1% of U.S. lawyers. • 2014 and 2015, Awarded the title of Rising Star among the Super Lawyers of Texas. Rising Stars are limited to 2.5% of the outstanding, emerging lawyers in Texas who are age 40 and under, or have been practicing 10 years or less.

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