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Practice Areas: Personal Injury Law; Intellectual Property Law; Medical Negligence Law; Product Liability Law; Professional Negligence Law; Professional Mediator Law; Arbitration.

Additional Information: Phi Beta Kappa; Tau Beta Pi. Author: "Federal Regulation of Emerging Genetic
Technologies," 36 Vanderbilt Law Review, 1983; "Government Regulation of Recombinant DNA
Research and Manufacturing Processes," Comprehensive Biotechnology, Vol. 3, Chapter 63, 1983;
"Voir Dire in Product Liability Cases," University of Texas School of Law Product Liability and
Personal Injury Conference, 1986; "Strategic Considerations in Selecting a Product Liability
Theory," University of Texas School of Law Product Liability and Personal Injury Conference,
1987; "Trying Marital and Family Torts after Price," University of Texas School of Law, Family Law
Seminar, 1987; "Toxic Tort Developments," American Conference on Chemical Labeling, 1987;
"Repeal of the Interspousal Immunity: Torts Come to Family Law," Marriage Dissolution Institute,
State Bar of Texas, 1988; "The Deceptive Trade Practices Act: a Primer," University of Texas
School of Law, Product Liability and Personal Injury Conference, 1988; "Intentional and Negligent
Infliction of Emotional Distress," Domestic Torts, South Texas College of Law, 1989; Computers as
a Tool for Presenting Information Persuasively," University of Texas School of Law, Product
Liability and Personal Injury Conference, 1989; "Medical Negligence," Advanced Practice Pointers
and Trial, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, 1990; "Attorney Work-Product and Attorney-Client
Privilege," Discovery in the New Age, Texas Trial Lawyers, 1991; "Current Developments in
Deceptive Trade Practices," Advanced Personal Injury Law Course, State Bar of Texas, 1991;
"Update of Architect and Engineer Liability" University of Texas School of Law Construction Law
Conference, 1992; "Professionalism," Advanced Personal Injury Law Course, State Bar of Texas,
1992; "Environmental Insurance Litigation" University of Texas School of Law Product Liability and
Personal Injury Conference, 1992; "Insurance Coverage in Toxic Torts," University of Texas School
of Law Product Liability and Personal Injury Conference, 1992; "Domestic Torts," The Rutter
Group-Texas Family Law Treatise, 1993; "Damages Update," University of Texas School of Law
Product Liability and Personal Injury Conference, 1993; Habit and Character Evidence," Advanced
Evidence and Discovery Course, State Bar of Texas, 1993; "Torts" Advanced Family Law Drafting
Course, State Bar of Texas, 1993; "ADR Update," Advanced Civil Trial Course, State Bar of
Texas, 1993; "Duty or Damage?: Emotional Distress and Mental Anguish Following Boyle v, Kerr
and Twyman v. Twyman," Butterworth's Texas Personal Injury Law Reporter, 1993; "Toxic
Torts--Plaintiff's Perspective," South Texas School of Law Environmental Symposium, 1993; "ADR
in Complex Medical/Pharmaceutical Liabilty Litigation," Advanced Course Medical Malpractice,
Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Litigation, State Bar of Texas, 1994; "Car Wrecks and Drunk
Drivers on the Information Superhighway," Dynamic Advocacy Seminal, Texas Tria