Admitted
1984, Texas; 1985, California; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Ninth Circuits, U.S. District Court, Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas and U.S. District Court, Central District of California
Law School
Yale University, J.D., 1982
Law School Graduation Year
1982
College
Rice University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1978
Memberships
Houston and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; State Bar of California
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa. Chairman, Barristers' Union, 1980-1981. Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Los Angeles, California, 1985-1991. Adjunct Professor: USC Law Center, 1989, 1991. Department of Justice Directors' Award, 1990. Fellow, Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart, Germany, 1991 1992. Adjunct Professor: University of Houston Law Center, 1994. Author: An Issue of Character: Predisposition and the Entrapment Defense, The Daily Journal Report, December, 1987; In the Name of a Greater Good: Beyond Law in Search of Order, The Daily Journal Report, May, 1989; The Emperor's Clause: District Attorneys, the Attorney General, and Section 382.095 of the Texas Clean Air Act, 24 Tex. Env. L. J. 167, 1994; Confessions from a Scorekeeper: A Reply to Mr. Bresler, 10 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 151, 1996; The Mythology of Aggregate Corporate Knowledge: A Deconstruction, 65 Geo. Washington L. Rev. 210, 1997. Life Fellow, Houston Bar Foundation.