Criminal Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization (2000)

• United States Army, Sergeant (1984-1987)
• United States Of America Meritorious Service Medal (1986)
• United States Army Commendation Medal (1986)
• United States Army Achievement Medal (1985)
• United States Army Forces Command Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year (1986)

• AV® Rated, Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review
• Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
• Thomson/Reuters “Super Lawyer” (2003-2018)
• Fort Worth Business Press “Attorney of Excellence” (2003-2005)
• Fort Worth, Texas Magazine “Top Attorney” (2001-2018)
• Tarrant County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association “Roland Hill Award” (2012)

• Editor-in-Chief, Texas Tech Law Review (1992-93)
• Editor, Voice for the Defense, Voice for the Defense Online (2009-2013)
• Assistant Feature Articles Editor, Voice for the Defense (1995-1998)
• Feature Articles Editor, Voice for the Defense (1998-2004)

• “Jeopardy: Snatching Victory From the Jaws of Defeat,” Criminal Defense Lawyers Project Skills Course, 1994-95
• “Psychiatric Testimony in Child Sexual Abuse Cases,” Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Project Skills course, 1996
• “Effective ALR Appeal,” DWI and ALR , Taking the Battle to Them Seminar, Courtroom Publications, 1997
• “Expert Testimony,” Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Project, 1997
• “Texas Rules of Evidence Significant Decisions,” Fifth Annual Prosecutors’ Skills Seminar, 1998
• “Jury Instructions,” Lone Star Seminars Aruba Seminar, 1999
• “Effective Use of Experts,” Criminal Defense Lawyers Project South Padre Island Seminar, 1999
• “Texas Rules of Evidence,” Lubbock Criminal Defense Lawyers Association “Nuts and Bolts” Seminar, 1999
• Texas Criminal Trial College, 2000
• “Evidence,” Criminal Defense Lawyers Project “Ultimate Trial Notebook” Seminar, 2000-01
• Texas Criminal Trial College, 2001
• “Post-Conviction DNA Testing,” 14th Annual M.P. “Rusty” Duncan Advanced Criminal Law Short Course, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2001
• “Developing the Theory Through Expert Testimony,” Criminal Defense Lawyers Project “Theory of the Case” Seminar, 2001-02
• Texas Criminal Trial College, 2002
• “Hearsay,” State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course, 2003
• Capital Trial Advocacy Course, Center for American & International Law, 2003
• “Experts,” Criminal Defense Lawyers Project “Evidence for the 21st Century” Seminar, 2003
• Texas Criminal Trial College, 2004
• “Experts,” Criminal Defense Lawyers Project “Day in the Life of a Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer” Seminar, 2003-04
• Capital Trial Advocacy Course, Center for American & International Law, 2004
• “Technology in the Courtroom,” 17th Annual M.P. “Rusty” Duncan Advanced Criminal Law Short Course, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2004
• “Developing the Story,” Criminal Defense Lawyers Project “Communicating with Juries” Seminar, 2004
• “Anatomy of the Win,” Criminal Defense Lawyer Project, 2004-2005
• “The Effective Use and Confrontation of Experts in Criminal Trials,” Criminal Defense Lawyer Project (Course Director), 2004
• Texas Criminal Trial College, 2005
• “Recent Decisions of the Court of Criminal Appeals,” State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course, 2005
• Capital Trial Voir Dire and Communicating With Jurors for the Defense, Center for American & International Law, 2005
• Capital Trial Advocacy Course, Center for American & International Law, 2005
• Cross-Examination and Impeachment, Center for American & International Law, 2005
• “Forensics,” Criminal Defense Lawyer Project (Course Director), 2005
• Trial Lawyers College, Colorado Regional, 2005
• Texas Criminal Trial College, 2006
• Trial Lawyers College, 2006
• “Recent Decisions of the Court of Criminal Appeals,” State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course, 2006
• “Voir Dire in a Drug Case,” Criminal Defense Lawyer Project Voir Dire Course, 2006
• “Technology in the Courtroom,” 19th Annual M.P. “Rusty” Duncan Advanced Criminal Law Short Course, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2006
• Texas Criminal Trial College, 2007
• “Court of Criminal Appeals Update,” 27th Annual Prairie Dog Seminar, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2007
• “Technology in the Courtroom,” 20th Annual M.P. “Rusty” Duncan Advanced Criminal Law Short Course, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2007
• Trial Lawyers College, California Regional, 2007
• Texas Criminal Trial College, 2008
• “CSI Texas,” State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course (Moderator), 2008.
• “Court of Criminal Appeals Update: Significant Decisions from Sept. 2007 to June 2008,” State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course, 2008.
• Trial Lawyers College, Death Penalty Seminar, 2009.
• “Experts,” 29th Annual Prairie Dog Seminar, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2009.
• “Negotiations and Plea Bargaining in Death Penalty Cases,” State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course, 2009.
• Texas Criminal Trial College, 2010.
• Trial Lawyers College, Death Penalty Seminar, 2010.
• “Hot Issues in Pending PDRs in the Court of Criminal Appeals,” State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course, 2010.
• Trial Lawyers College, September Session, 2010.
• “Psychodrama for Lawyers,” Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Project, 2011.
• Texas Criminal Trial College, 2011.
• “Ethics,” Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Project, 4th Annual Jolly Roger Hal Jackson Memorial Criminal Law Seminar, 2011.
• Trial Lawyers College, Texas Regional, 2012.
• Trial Lawyers College, September Session, 2012.
• “Use of Experts in Defense of Child Abuse Allegations,” State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course, 2012.
• “Psychodrama for Lawyers,” Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Project, 2013.
• “Experts,” State Bar of Texas, “Sex, Drugs & Surveillance,” 2013.
• Trial Lawyers College, Texas Regional, 2013.
• Trial Lawyers College, September Session, 2013.
• Trial Lawyers College, Texas Regional, 2014.
• Texas Criminal Trial College, 2014.
• Trial Lawyers College, Death Penalty Seminar, 2014.
• Trial Lawyers College, Graduate Course I, 2014.
• “Demonstrative Evidence,” Center for American and International Law, Advanced Criminal Law, 2014.
• Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Advanced Communication Seminar, October, 2014.
• Trial Lawyers College, Criminal Defense Seminar, 2015.
• “Humanizing Your Client,” Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Defending Child Abuse Seminar, 2015.
• “Demonstrative Evidence,” Center for American and International Law, Advanced Criminal Law, 2015.
• Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Advanced Communication Seminar, October, 2015.
• “Storytelling,” 36th Annual Prairie Dog Seminar, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2016.
• Trial Lawyers College, Criminal Defense Seminar, 2016.
• Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Advanced Communication Seminar, October, 2016.
• “Storytelling,” 37th Annual Prairie Dog Seminar, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2017.
• “Communicating with a Jury,” Northern District of Texas Federal Public Defender Seminar, 2017.
• “Direct and Cross-Examination,” Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, McKinney, Texas, 2017.
• Trial Lawyers College, Criminal Defense Seminar, 2017.
• Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Advanced Communication Seminar, October, 2017.
• “Experts,” Northern District of Texas Federal Public Defender Seminar, 2018.
• Trial Lawyers College, Criminal Defense Seminar, 2018.
• “Demonstrative Evidence,” Center for American and International Law, Advanced Criminal Law, 2018.
• Trial Lawyers College, Criminal Defense Seminar, 2018.
• Trial Lawyers College, Graduate Seminar II, 2018.

• “But I Know It When I See It: A Practical Framework for Analysis and Argument of Informal Fiduciary Relationships,” 23 Texas Tech Law Review 835, 1992.
• “Administrative License Revocation and Double Jeopardy: The Battle Begins at the Appellate Level,” 24 Voice for the Defense 7, Sept. 1995 at 34.
• “The Nature of This Debate: A Look at the Texas Foreign Corporation Venue Rule and a Method For Analyzing the Premises and Promises of Tort Reform,” 25 Texas Tech Law Review 903, 1995.
• “Double Jeopardy and ALR: On to the Court of Criminal Appeals,” 25 Voice for the Defense 2, Mar. 1996 at 28.
• “Psychiatric Testimony in Child Sexual Abuse Cases in Texas,” 25 Voice for the Defense 5, June 1996 at 12.
• “Is the Court of Criminal Appeals Prepared to Limit the DeGarmo Doctrine?” 25 Voice for the Defense 10, Dec. 1996 at 28.
• “Experts for the Indigent,” 26 Voice for the Defense 6, July-Aug. 1997.
• “The Guerilla’s Guide to Evidence,” 29 Voice for the Defense 5, May 2000.
• “Throwing Away the Book,” The Warrior, Spring, 2003.
• “Communicating Through Shared Experience (Part I of an Occasional Series of Deep Thoughts About Jury Communication),” 38 Voice for the Defense 6, June 2009 at 11.
• “One Picture and 1,000 Words (Approximately),” 38 Voice for the Defense 6, July-Aug. 2009 at 12.
• “Stupid Pet Tricks,” 38 Voice For The Defense 8, Oct. 2009 at 12.
• “The Big Lie,” 38 Voice For The Defense 10, Dec. 2009 at 12.
• “How Wiggins v. Smith Raised the Bar,” 39 Voice For The Defense 3, April 2010 at 11.
• “We, the Haters,” 39 Voice For The Defense 4, May 2010 at 11.
• “A Conversation With Justice Anthony Kennedy,” 39 Voice For The Defense 5, June 2010 at 12.
• “Darrow’s Dream,” 39 Voice for the Defense 6, July/Aug. 2010 at 12.
• “Fashionable Racism,” 39 Voice for the Defense 7, Sept. 2010 at 12.
• “A Little Death Penalty Math,” 40 Voice for the Defense 8, Sept. 2011 at 12.
• “The Sniff Test,” 40 Voice for the Defense 9, Oct. 2011 at 12.
• “A Little Death Penalty Math, Part 2,” 41 Voice for the Defense 1, Jan./Feb. 2012 at 11.
• “Why I Think The Death Penalty Will Die,” 41 Voice for the Defense 3, April 2012 at 11.

• Tarrant County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (Past President)
• Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (Board of Directors; Officer)
• Eldon B. Mahon Inn of Court (Barrister, 2008-2012)
• Tarrant County Bar Association
• Tarrant County Bar Foundation (Life Fellow)
• Texas Bar Foundation (Fellow)
• Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
• College of the State Bar of Texas