Honors and Awards:

• Member, American Law Institute and ALI's Members Consultative Group for Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation. Martindale-Hubbell AV (highest) rating since 1995. Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in Antitrust and General Commercial Litigation (2007-10). The Best Lawyers in America, Bet-the-Company Litigation (2010-2012), Commercial Litigation (2003-2012), Litigation - Antitrust (2012), Litigation - Intellectual Property (2012), and Litigation - Patent (2012).Texas Super Lawyer in Business Litigation, Antitrust Litigation, and Class Action/Mass Torts (2003-2011). Who's Who Legal: Texas (competition).The Legal 500 U.S. (2007-11) (mass tort and class actions: antitrust). Fellow, LitigationCounsel of America (2010-2011).

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Member, State Bar of Texas; American Bar Association; Section of Litigation and Section of Antitrust Law; American Association for Justice; Dallas Bar Association; Houston Bar Association; Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation, Dallas Bar Foundation, and Houston Bar Foundation.

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Trustee, Greenhill School. Trustee, Center for American and International Law.  Alumnus member, Texas Lyceum.

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Co-author, "Techniques for Expediting and Streamlining Litigation" for American Bar Association Section of Litigation's second edition of Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts (2005-08). Creator and blogger-in-chief, Blawgletter®, which ranks in the top three percent of law blogs on Justia.Interviews by and articles for NPR's "Marketplace" report, Law Blog of The Wall Street Journal, Texas Lawyer, ABA Journal, business torts "Hot Topics" by the Litigation Section of the Texas Bar Association, Kansas City Business Journal, The Dallas Morning News, Blawg Review, Texas Cable News, D CEO, and Dallas Business Journal.Author and speaker at continuing legal education seminars, including "Techniques for Expediting and Streamlining Litigation" for the Harris County Civil District Judges Summer Conference; "How to Bust or Follow Through with an Arbitration" for the State Bar of Texas's Advanced Civil Trial Course; "Rule-Making and How It Affects Your Practice" for the State Bar of Texas's Advanced Personal Injury Law Course; "Current Developments in Business Litigation", American Bar Association.

Representative Clients:

• Public companies: Cisco Systems, EMC, ENSCO, AmWINS, Forest Oil, The Shaw Group, Trammell Crow Company, Texas Instruments, New Century Financial.Private companies: ACADIA, All Smiles Dental, Energy Future Holdings, ISOL Technology, Luminant Generation, Luminant Mining, Mewbourne Oil & Gas, Olympia Minerals, Valor Equity, Neiman Marcus Group, Gobeli Research, Swift Cash, Wagner & Brown, Ltd., and Morris & Dickson Co.

Educational Background:

• B.A., magna cum laude, History (honors) and Economics, Yale University, 1981
• J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1984