Areas of Practice

• Bad Faith
• Consumer Protection
• Contracts
• Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) -- Employee
• Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) -- Employer
• Federal Appellate Practice
• Federal Trial Practice
• Insurance Law
• Life & Health
• Litigation & Appeals
• Machinery & Tools
• Medical Malpractice
• Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
• Motor Vehicle Defects
• Pensions, Benefits & Compensations -- Employee
• Pensions, Benefits & Compensations -- Employer
• Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
• Premises Liability -- Plaintiff
• Products Liability Law
• Property Damage -- Plaintiff
• Recreational Products
• Slip and Fall -- Plaintiff
• State Appellate Practice
• State Trial Practice
• Warranties
• Wrongful Death -- Plaintiff

Litigation Percentage

• 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

• Texas, 1985
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas, 1986
• U.S. District Court Western District of Texas, 1987
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas, 1988
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, 1998
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1990
• U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 1994
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 2000
• U.S. Supreme Court, 2001

Education

• Southern Methodist University School of Law, Dallas, Texas, 1985
  J.D.
  Honors: Order of the Coif
  Law Journal: Southwestern Law Journal, Managing Texas Survey Editor
  
  
• Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana, 1974
  B.S.
  Major: Mechanical Engineering
  
  

Representative Cases

• Alexander v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co., WL 3172195 (5th Circuit 2009)
• Archer v. United Technologies Corp., WL 2842773 (N.D. Texas 2009)
• Bray v. Fort Dearborn Life Ins. Co., WL 585615 (5th Circuit 2009)
• Baylor Univ. Med. Ctr. v. Rosa, 240, S.W.3d 565 (Tex. App.Dallas (pet. denied) 2007)

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Dallas Bar Association
  Member
  
  

Birth Information

• 1952, Indiana, United States of America