Attorney

Notable Accomplishments

Book Publications

• Co-Author and General Editor of All About Texas Law and Kids, TX Lawyer Press, 2010.
• Co-Author of Texas Automobile Insurance Policy Annotated, TX Lawyer Press, 1st ed. 2000 through 12th ed. 2012.
• Co-Author of What I Wish I’d Known About Raising a Child With Autism, Future Horizons, 2011.
• Co-Author of a chapter in Autism in Lockdown, Future Horizons 2020.
• Author of a chapter in The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up, by Carol Kranowitz, Penguin/Random House, 2016.

Continuing Legal Education Papers and Presentations

• Author and Presenter: “What’s In an Insurance Policy?,” Paper and Presentation at UTCLE Car Crash Seminar, Dallas and San Antonio, 2005.
• Co-author and Co-Presenter: “Homeowners’ Coverages: Appraisal and Arbitration – Changing Times Ahead,” presented at the Ultimate Insurance Seminar, March 2001.
• Co-Author: “Arson and the Emerging Law (What a Hot Topic!),” presented to the Arson Training Seminar, Insurance Committee for Arson Control, February 2001.
• Co-Author: Annual Updates (1995 – 2003) for “Life in the Trenches: Handling Claims,” a three-hour course on claims handling approved by the Texas Department of Insurance (2 hours continuing education; 1 hour consumer protection).
• Co-Author: “Homeowner Claims: The Use and Misuse of the Appraisal Provision,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Associations of Special Investigative Units, September 1999.
• Co-Author and Co-Presenter: “Bad Faith: What is it? Is it Catching? How Do I Avoid It?,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Associations of Special Investigative Units, September 1999.
• Co-Author and Presenter: “Civil Trial and Evidentiary Rule Changes: The Good, The Bad & The Different,” presented to the Texas Association of Defense Counsel’s Winter Meeting in February 1998 in Crested Butte, Colorado.
• Co-Author: “Who Gets the Proceeds? Issues Related to the Claims of Mortgagees, Loss Payees and Additional Insureds,” presented to the Property Insurance Law Section of the American Bar Association, March 1997.
• Co-Author: “An Overview of Civil Litigation Involving Sexual Torts,” for the State Bar of Texas 11th and 12th Annual Advanced Personal Injury Law Course, 1995 and 1996.