Selected Publications / Presentations

Selected Publications

Writing on Writing -a quarterly column in HEADNOTES, the monthly publication of the Dallas Bar Association (available on their website)

  • Questions on Quotations, HEADNOTES, Apr. 2009, at p. 6
  • The Keys to Paragraph Structure, HEADNOTES, Oct. 2008, at p. 16.
  • File under Writing-Miscellaneous, HEADNOTES, Mar. 2008, at p. 6.
  • Warnings About Modifiers, HEADNOTES, Oct. 2007, at p. 16.
  • Dealing with Adverse Authority, HEADNOTES, June 2007, at p. 1.
  • Editing Another's Work, HEADNOTES, Jan. 2007, at p. 3.
  • Reading to Write, HEADNOTES, Aug. 2006, at p. 3.
  • Writing A Speech (Pt. 2), HEADNOTES, Apr. 2006, at p. 5.
  • Writing A Speech (Pt. 1), HEADNOTES, Mar. 2006, at p. 5.
  • When It's Just Not Working, HEADNOTES, Oct. 2005, at p. 5.
  • Move Along, Counsel, HEADNOTES, July 2005, at p. 5.
  • Storytelling: Once Upon A Time, HEADNOTES, Ap. 2005, at p. 7.
  • What's on Your Bookshelf?, HEADNOTES, Dec. 2004, at p. 11.
  • Editing-One Step at a Time, HEADNOTES, Aug. 1, 2004, at p. 5.
  • The Writing Process (Pt. 2)-The First Draft, HEADNOTES, May 1, 2004, at p. 5.
  • The Writing Process (Pt. 1)-Getting Ready to Write, HEADNOTES, Feb. 1, 2004, at p. 6.
  • First Aid at the Last Minute, HEADNOTES, NOV. 1, 2003, at p. 9.

Separate Opinions in the Court of Appeals
STATE BAR OF TEXAS,18 THE APPELLATE ADVOCATE, No. 1 (Summer 2005) p. 21.

Annual Review of 1995 Antitrust Law Developments (1996) ABA ANTITRUST SECTION, (Co-author of chapter on Robinson-Patman Act).

Antitrust Law Developments, 3rd (1991) ABA ANTITRUST SECTION, (contributed to chapter on FTC).

Drafting and Litigating Against Post-Term Competition Franchise Legal Digest (Sept. - Oct. 1990) (co-author).

The Treatment of Confidential Information by the FTC ABA ANTITRUST SECTION WORKING PAPER, 1990 (co-author).

Book Review, 50 TEX. B.J. 659-60 (1987) (reviewing TRIBE, CONSTITUTIONAL CHOICES) (1985)).

Book Review, 47 TEX. B.J. 588-90 (1984) reviewing LAW AND ECONOMICS CENTER OF EMORY UNIVERSITY, SUPREME COURT ECONOMIC REVIEW (VOLUME 1 ) (1983).

Comment, Antitrust Review and Nuclear Power Plant Licensing, 29 BAYLOR L. REV. 971 (1977) Note, Court Awarded Attorneys' Fees in Divorce, 29 BAYLOR L. REV. 172 (1977)

Selected Presentations

Presenter

Credibility with the Court (legal ethics and effective advocacy)

  • Rockwall County Bar Association, Bench-Bar Conference (Rockwall, Texas, Apr. 24, 2009).
  • Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer?s Association, Sixth Annual Forensics Seminar (Dallas, Texas, Oct. 23, 2008).
  • University of Texas School of Law, 2007 Page Keeton Civil Litigation Conference (Austin, Texas, Oct. 1, 2007).
  • Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer's Association Fifth Annual Forensics Seminar (Dallas, Texas, Oct. 4, 2007).
  • University of Texas School of Law 's 17th Annual Conference on State and Federal Appeals (Austin, Texas, May 31, 2007).
  • Collin County Bar Association Appellate Section (Plano, Texas, Ap. 13, 2007).
  • Dallas Bar Association Appellate Section (Dallas, Texas, Ap. 20, 2006).

Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, Dallas Bar Association Criminal Law Section, Annual CLE Program, (Dallas, Texas, Aug. 18, 2006).

Legal Writing, Dallas Bar Association Minority Business Development initiative (Dallas, Texas, Aug. 4, 2006).

Signs and Omens: Texas Appeals in the 21st Century

  • Dallas Bar Association Criminal Law Section, Annual CLE Program (Dallas, Texas, Aug. 18, 2006).
  • Houston Bar Association, Appellate Section (Houston, Texas, Feb. 22, 2006).
  • Tarrant County Bar Association Appellate Section (Fort Worth, Texas, Nov. 18, 2005).
  • State Bar of Texas, 1 Gush Annual Advanced Civil Appellate Practice Course (Austin, Texas, Sept. 9, 2005).
  • Dallas Bar Association Appellate Section (Dallas, Texas, Dec. 16, 2004).

Writing for Headnotes Dallas Bar Association Publications Committee (2003-05) (annual program).

Statesmen for the Constitution

  • Mesquite Bar Association (Mesquite, Texas, Nov. 17, 2004).
  • Rockwall County Bar Association, 2003 Annual Dinner (Rockwall, Texas, May 17, 2003).

The New Rules on Appeals: Interlocutory Appeals and Stays, Conflict Jurisdiction, Appeal Bonds, and Interest Rates, Dallas Bar Association Appellate Section, (Dallas, Texas, Nov. 20, 2003).

Moderator

The Future of Legal Practice, Dallas Bar Association, 2006 Bench-Bar Conference, (Horseshoe Bay, Texas, Sept. 29, 2006)(moderator).

Legal Ethics, Dallas Bar Association Law Student Professionalism Conference, (Dallas, Texas, May 26,2005) (moderator).

The Microsoft Decision: What's Next?, The Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies (Washington, D.C., July 30,2001) (moderator).