PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Education: Doctor of Jurisprudence, The University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 1973; Bachelor of Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 1970

Summary of Experience: January, 1976, established solo general practice of law in Levelland, Texas, county seat of Hockley County, thirty miles West of Lubbock, Texas. Prior to 1986 and the collapse of the oil industry in West Texas, general practice in West Texas included periodic banking, collections, corporate, employee relations, worker's compensation, personal injury, oil and gas leases and contracts, real estate, criminal and family law. Since the downturn in the oil and gas, real estate and banking industries, general law practice here has a greater emphasis on family and criminal law and less calling for commercial and industrial/labor related problems. In the year 2000 moved primary office to Lubbock, Texas. Still maintains close ties with Hockley and Cochran Counties and rural West Texas.