Experienced civil defense litigator with a strong, broad based background in complex, document intensive, multi-party, catastrophic, multi-million dollar cases pending in State and Federal Courts in multiple jurisdictions.
Areas Of Practice
- Aviation
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Litigation
- Premises Liability
- Products Liability
- Insurance Coverage and Coverage Litigation
Bar Admissions
- California, 1994
- Texas, 1999
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
- U.S. District Court District of Arizona
- U.S. District Court Central District of California
Education
- Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, California
- Juris Doctor - 1994
- Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas
- B.B.A. - 1990
Representative Cases
- Defense of a national commercial real estate firm in a wrongful death case resulting from a propane gas explosion on a U.S. military base in California
- Defense of offshore commercial helicopter operators in accidents that injured and/or killed passengers and crew
- Defense of Fixed Based Operator in 737 engine ingestion case
- Defense of owner/operator in a multi-death case involving Cessna 208B icing
- Defense of a product manufacturer in a pharmaceutical plant explosion in North Carolina that killed 4, injured 35, and destroyed the plant
- Defense of mall and security company in a wrongful death shooting
- Defense of a private club in wrongful death drive by shooting
- Defense of architects and engineers that designed a wet scrubber system at a cement plant in wrongful death, subrogation and business interruption loss matter
- Defense of two insurers in an environmental bad faith coverage suit involving 26 lead smelting sites in 10 states and dozens of insurers
- Two-week trial representing a multi-national plastics manufacturer in a commercial matter
- Represented a DFW area school district in a Federal desegregation/unitary status case against the Department of Justice requiring two multi-day bench trials in Federal court resulting in the district achieving unitary status and being released from its obligations under a decades old desegregation order
- Represented a marketing research firm in a one-week trade secrets trial
- Represented a church in a sexual misconduct matter
- Represented major concessionaire in disputes with international airports
- Represented a non-profit in a commercial lease dispute with its landlord, a major church
- Defense of a South Korean corporation in a trade secret case
- Represented Plaintiffs in a nine-day bench trial in a shareholder dispute
Professional Associations and Memberships
- State Bar of California
- State Bar of Texas
- Dallas Bar Association
Pro Bono Activities
- City of Southlake, TX Planning & Zoning Commission, Chairman, 2015 to 2016
- City of Southlake, TX Planning & Zoning Commission, Vice-Chairman, 2012 to 2015
- City of Southlake, TX Planning & Zoning Commission, Commissioner, 2011 to 2012
- City of Southlake, TX Zoning Board of Adjustment, Chairman, 2009 to 2011
- City of Southlake, TX Zoning Board of Adjustment, Member, 2008 to 2009
- Board of Trustees, First United Methodist Church, Grapevine, TX, 2008 to 2011
- Chairman, Honors Program Visiting Committee Abilene Christian University, 2006 to 2007
Languages
- English