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Practice Areas: Civil Litigation, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice, Negligence Law

Additional Information: I was licensed to practice law in Texas on May 14, 1982. Since 1985, I have devoted my practice to representing people who have been injured or lost loved ones to accidents caused by negligence, or due to the wilful acts of others, usually corporate defendants who have knowingly sold dangerous products in the market place. For me it is a passion. I have been taught to take responsibility for my actions my whole life. I learned early on, if you break something, you fix or replace it. If you hurt someone else, make it right. And start by saying I'm sorry.

Unfortunately, in the court room, it has become acceptable for lawyers defending insurance companies to use any means possible to avoid liability. Nobody wants to take responsibility when they hurt someone else. And their insurance company won’t let them anyway. These companies promised to pay when their insured injured someone-now they won’t. I have spent the last 24 years fighting for the rights of injured persons to be fully and completely compensated for their injuries.

In most cases that means trial by jury. I believe the American jury is the most powerful and most knowledgeable entity in the entire justice system. For that reason, I have spent my entire career working to be a better trial lawyer. I graduated from Baylor University School of Law in 1981. Since that time, I have been to countless seminars and workshops honing my skills as a trial lawyer. In June of 2006 I was selected to attend the prestigious Trial Lawyers College created and taught by the world's greatest trial lawyer, Gerry Spence. Mr. Spence has shared his talent and knowledge with the college, which is dedicated to training a new generation of people's trial lawyers. The Trial Lawyers College is committed to developing lawyers who will ethically and nobly champion the cause of the injured, the accused and the damned. (www.triallawyerscollege.com). A portion of earnings on every case is contributed to the Trial Lawyers College monthly. I started my own firm in 1987. I am AV rated (the highest category for ability and ethics) by Martindale-Hubbell, an organization that has ranked lawyers for decades, and I have been board certified in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1998. I am a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association for Justice, organizations dedicated to protecting your right to trial by jury.