Position: Member

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Website: www.clearmanlaw.com

Admitted: 1988, Texas; 1989, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; 1990, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1996, U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas; U.S. Supreme Court; 1997, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas; 2002, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit

Law School: University of Texas, J.D., 1988.

College: Southwestern University, B.S.S.S., 1985.

Birth Date and Place: Canyon, Texas, September 13, 1964.

Practice Areas: Plaintiff Personal Injury

Additional Information: Member: Houston and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Houston Young Lawyers Association; Houston Trial Lawyers Association (Director, 1995-1997); Texas Trial Lawyers Association. Biography: Profiled: "40 Under 40," Texas Lawyer 2001. Speaker: "Discovery of Computer Based Information," University of Houston Law Foundation, Advanced Civil Discovery, Houston and San Antonio, June 1996 and May 1997; "The Growing Use of Non-Antitrust Causes of Action in Insurance "Antitrust" Cases" ABA Annual Antitrust Spring Meeting, Insurance Industry, Committee, Washington, D.C., April 1997; "Use of Antitrust Causes of Action in Insurance Underwriting Cases," Houston Bar Association, Section of Antitrust, September 1997; "The Controversial Role of the Class Objector in Class Action Settlements of Antitrust," Section of Antitrust and Business Litigation, State Bar of Texas, Houston, May 1998; "Everything You Need to Know About Insurance and Consumer Law," Houston Bar Association, Houston, May 1999; "Federal Claims Against Insurance Carriers in the Wake of the United States Supreme Court's Humana Decision Clarifying Analysis Under the McCarran-Ferguson Act," The University of Texas School of Law and the Insurance Law Section for the State Bar of Texas, San Antonio, August 2000; "Federal RICO Claims and Insurance Class Actions," South Texas College of Law, Houston, January, 2002. Testimony before the Workers' Compensation Advisory Council, Frankfort, Kentucky, May 1996. Reported Cases: Sandwich Chef of Texas, Inc. v. Reliance National Indemnity Insurance Company, 319 F.3d 205 (5th Cir. 2003); Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London v. Smith, 77 S.W.3d 859 (Tex. App.-Houston [14th Dist.]), vacated, No. 00-00391-CV, 2002 WL 31235437 (Tex. App.-Houston [14th Dist] Oct. 3, 2002), withdrawn, 93 S.W.3d 657 (Tex. App.-Houston [14th Dist.] 2002); Mayo v. Hartford Life Insurance Company, 220 F. Supp.2d 794 (S.D. Tex. 2002); Mayo v. Hartford Life Insurance Company, 220 F. Supp.2d 714 (S.D. Tex. 2002); Mayo v. Hartford Life Insurance Company, 193 F. Supp.2d 927 (S.D. Tex. 2002); In re Nitla, 92 S.W.3d 419 (Tex. 2002); DeLeon v. Lloyd's London, 259 F.3d 344, 350 (5th Cir. 2001); Sandwich Chef of Texas, Inc. v. Reliance National Indemnity Insurance Company, 202 F.R.D. 484 (S.D. Tex. 2001); Sandwich Chef of Texas, Inc. v. Reliance National Indemnity Insurance Company, 202 F.R.D. 212 (S.D. Tex. 2001); Sandwich Chef of Texas, Inc. v. Reliance National Indemnity Insurance Company, 111 F. Supp.2d 867 (S.D. Tex. 2000); Tamez v. Lloyd's London, 999 S.W.2d 12 (Tex.App.-Houston [14th Dist.] 1998, pet. denied); Stillwagoner v. Travelers, 979 S.W.2d 354 (Tex.App.-Tyler 1998, no pet.); International Surplus Lines Insurance Company v. Wallace, 843 S.W.2d 773 (Tex.App.-Texarkana 1992, no writ).