Member at the firm Welsh & Chapoton, LLP
Areas of Practice
Civil Litigation; Complex and Multi-District Litigation; Mass Torts; Class Actions; Securities; Corporate Law; Business Litigation; Commercial Litigation; False Claims Act; Products Liability; Professional Liability; Torts; Personal Injury; Property Law; Energy; RICO; Wills; Estate Planning; Tax Litigation
Admitted
1975, Texas; U.S. District Court, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits
Law School
University of Texas, J.D., with honors, 1975
College
Northwestern University, B.S., 1972
Membership
Houston and American (Member, Litigation Section) Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; American Board of Trial Advocates; Texas Association of Defense Counsel; Texas Law Review Association (Life Member). Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers (Member, Committee on Federal Civil Procedure, 2003); The Southwestern Legal Foundation.
Biography
Order of the Coif. Phi Delta Phi Scholar. Clarion DeWitt Hardy Scholar, Northwestern University. Note Editor, Texas Law Review, 1973-1974. Author and Lecturer: ""Professional Liability," Houston Bar Association Institute; "Damages and Other Remedies in Business Litigation," Annual Advanced Civil Trial Course, State Bar of Texas; "Medical Malpractice in Texas," Baylor Medical School Cardiology Fellows, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital Cardiology Hospital Cardiology Service, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital; "Business Litigation: Attorney and Accountant Perspectives," Houston Bar Association-Houston Foundation of the Texas Society of CPA's; "Pre-Trial Discovery," Federal Bar Association, South Texas College of Law; "Medico-Legal Problems in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery," Houston Cardiology Society; "Damages," Annual Advanced Personal Injury Course, South Texas College of Law; "Choosing and Courting a Jury," State Bar of Texas, South Texas College of Law; "Corporations-Sale of Control-Possibility of Looting Not Foreseeable to Seller," 51 Texas Law Review 1234; "European Economic Community Law versus United Kingdom Law: A Doctrinal Dilemma," 53 Texas Law Review 1032; "Damages and Other Remedies in Civil Litigation," Advanced Civil Trial Course; "Damages in Personal Injury Actions," Advanced Personal Injury Course. Instructor and Team Leader, Trial Advocacy Program, Louisiana State University. Former Special Disciplinary Trust Counsel, State Bar of Texas; Past Member and Administration of the Rules of Evidence Committee, State Bar of Texas. Former Chair, Medical Malpractice Committee, Texas Association of Defense Counsel. Former Editor, Texas Medical Malpractice Newsletter. National Advisory Counsel, Northwestern University School of Speech. Life Fellow, Houston Bar Foundation. Sustaining Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation. Keeton Fellow, University of Texas School of Law.
Born
Orange, New Jersey, January 9, 1950
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