Recipient: Texas Super Lawyer, Civil Litigation Defense, Texas Monthly, 2004-2009; DRI National Member of the Month, November 2002; Author and Speaker: "Advanced Personal Injury Seminar," State Bar of Texas, 1998; Program Chair: DRI Trucking Law Conference, 2002; DRI Preeminent Trial Lawyer Mock Trial Program, September 2007; DRI Trucking Law Meeting "Strategic Considerations for Defending Claims Brought by Undocumented Foreign Nationals", April 2008; Trucking Industry Defense Association Advanced Skills Course-"Excess Insurer's Perspective on Jury Trials," January 2008; Seminar on Bi-National Products Liability Law, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, Mexico City, 2002; Seminar on International Arbitration, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, Mexico City, 2003; Speaker on defending claims brought by undocumented foreign nationals, October 2008 North Carolina Defense Lawyer Association Annual Meeting; January 2009 Winter Meeting Texas Association of Defense Counsel, 2008-2010 Faculty Member at Trucking Law Boot Camps - Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Mechanicsburg regarding on board electronics.