Recipient, Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Continuing Legal Education Program, University of Texas School of Law, November 1990. Comments Editor, South Texas Law Journal, 1972-1973. Adjunct Professor of Bankruptcy Law, University of Texas School of Law, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2000. Author: "The Constitutionality of Pre-Trial Juvenile Proceedings in Texas - Especially Detention," 14 S. Tex. L.J. 279 (1973); Comment, "The Medico-Legal Significance of Pain and Suffering," 15 S. Tex. L.J. 279 (1973); "Creditors/Debtors in State Bar of Texas," 2nd Ann. Gen. Practice Inst. B. 1 (1979); "Sequestration, Garnishment, Attachments," Baylor University Law School (Spring, 1975). Co-Author: Hoffman and Murray, "Obligations the Cannot Be Erased," Family Advocate 18 (Winter, 1983). Lecturer: "Automatic Stays in Bankruptcy Cases," Matthew Hoffman and Kaaran Thomas, Bankruptcy Practice Update, University of Houston College of Law (November, 1981); "Texas First Amended Credit and Bankruptcy Seminar," Texaco, Inc.'s First Annual Credit and Bankruptcy Seminar, Houston, Texas, June 7, 1983; "Preferences, Fraudulent Transfers, Post-Petition Transfers and Set-Offs Affecting Oil and Gas Transactions," Second Annual Workshop on the Effect of Bankruptcy Laws on Oil & Gas Operations sponsored by the Oil Committee of the National Resources Section, American Bar Association, Houston, Texas, October 30, 1984; "The Perils of Representing Debtors in Chapters 7 and 11," Houston Bankruptcy Conference, The Doubletree Hotel Houston, Texas, May 20, 1988; "Conference on Valuation of Assets in Bankruptcy," Co-Chairman, Planning Committee for Conference on Valuation of Assets in Bankruptcy, Stouffer Austin Hotel, Austin, Texas, 1988-1993.