Publications and Presentations

  • Coauthor, Tips of the Trade series in State Bar of Texas’s Litigation Section’s News for the Bar Newsletter, Winter 2015-2018.
  • Contributor, Brief Writing: Make Yourself Useful as Well as Ornamental, The Advocate (Texas State Bar Litigation Section Report), Fall 2016.
  • Author, Top 10 (Mostly Legal) Mistakes Startups and New Businesses Make, Fort Worth Business Press, April 15, 2016.
  • Panelist, Dr. Kenneth Street Law Symposium, Austin College, Attorneys’ Use of Social Media, February 2016.
  • Presenter, Keeping It Together: Tactics for Staying on Strategy, Tarrant County Bar Association, Marketing Seminar, January 2016.
  • Coauthor, A Self-Inflicted Wound: Creating a Claim for Attorney’s Fees by an Unnecessary Pleading of the Declaratory Judgments Act, State Bar of Texas, Litigation Section Newsletter, June 2015
  • Panelist, Judicial Clerk Professionalism Luncheon, Professionalism in the Legal Profession, August, 2014.
  • Coauthor, Appellate Attorney’s Fees: The Red-Headed Step Child of Fee Recoveries, paper and presentation, Tarrant County Bar Association Brown Bag CLE in Appellate Law, March 28, 2014.
  • Tarrant County Bar Association, Marketing Seminar, Marketing the Solo or Small Law Firm, January 2014.
  • Presentation contributor, Preservation of Error Post-Trial: How to Avoid That Sinking Feeling, for Steven K. Hayes (author/presenter) and Dabney Bassel (author/presenter), presented at Texas State Bar’s Advanced Appellate Practice CLE 2011 and 2012.
  • Texas Wesleyan Law Review, Law Firm Marketing Seminar, Panelist, October 2012.
  • Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, Guest Lecturer Business Associations Course, October 2012.
  • Westlaw Insider: Small Law Firms Blog Posts (2012)
    • Unifying Your Brand To Increase Client Acquisition
    • Leverage Your Network to Increase Referrals
    • Newly Solo? Use Your “Downtime” Productively
    • Breaking Out – Expanding Into A New Practice Area
      • Part 1: Identify Your Target Client and Services
      • Part 2: Finding Your Client Base
      • Part 3: Engage Your Prospects
  • Panel Member, Thomson Reuter’s/West Town Hall Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, August 2012.
  • Tarrant County Community College Small Business Development Center, Monthly Lecturer on two legal topics (contracts and consumer law), July 2012 – 2015.
  • Chief Executive Legal Guide (General Corporate Law Chapter Coauthor), published by CEO Magazine, May 2012.
  • Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Seminar Lecturer in Bilingual Business Development on Legal Issues of Formation, Contracts, and Liability, April 2012 – 2014.
  • Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, Guest Lecturer Business Fundamentals Course, March and October 2012.
  • New Solos: Use your Downtime Productively!, Published in the TYLA and Arlington Bar Association Newsletters, 2011