Admitted
1980, Texas and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits
Law School
University of Houston, J.D., cum laude, 1980
Law School Graduation Year
1980
College
University of Houston, B.A., summa cum laude, 1977
Memberships
Houston and American (Vice Chair, Technology Committee, Section on Environment, Energy and Resources Law, 1996-1997); State Bar of Texas; Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (Vice Chair, Special Institutes Committee, 1992-1994); Southwestern Legal Foundation (Member, Advisory Board, 1992-1994).
Biographical
Author: Pemex's Multiple Services Contract Poses Financing Issues, International Oil & Gas Finance Review, 2003; Federal OCS Leases as Collateral for the Non-US Lender, Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, July 1995. Commentator, Analysis of the Oil Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Advisory Report of the ABA Central & East European Law Initiative (1995). Moderator: Globalization in Reverse - Planning the South American Divestiture Project, 15th Annual International Law Institute, International Law Section, State Bar of Texas (Dallas 2002); Implementing the Corporate Antitrust Program, Annual Meeting, Global Corporate Counsel Association (Versailles 2002); Development of Integrated Energy Projects in Latin America, Annual Meeting, ABA Section on Environment, Energy and Resources Law (Hilton Head 1998). Speaker: Corporate Strategies for US Risk Assessment - Liability Protection and Litigation Response, UK Energy Industries Council (London 1995); Structuring US Operations of UK Companies, Grampian Regional Council (Aberdeen 1992); Protecting the UK Parent Company from US Liabilities, British-American Chamber of Commerce/Department of Trade & Industry (London 1990). Member: Executive Board, Institute for Energy Law and Enterprise, University of Houston, 2003—; A. A. White Society, University of Houston Law Foundation, 1999—; Advisory Board, Institute for International and Comparative Law, The Center for American and International Law, 2003—.