47 Years of Litigation Experience. 40+ Jury Trials. One Focus: Resolution. You don’t need to educate your mediator. You need one who already understands the case.
“In 2022, I retired after 45 years of handling high-stakes insurance disputes. I believed my days in the courtroom—and at the negotiating table—were behind me.
But the calls kept coming. Lawyers on both sides of the docket complained that mediators with a deep, working understanding of insurance coverage were in short supply. This practice exists to meet that need.
“I didn’t start this practice because I had to. I started it because I was needed.”
Creative Tools for the Last Hour of Mediation (Nov. 2025)
State Bar of Texas
Stowers – Trouble With Towers (June 2020)
University of Texas Insurance Law Institute
The Fortuity Doctrine: Known Loss & Loss in Progress (Oct. 2012)
University of Houston - Advanced Insurance and Tort Claims Seminar
Coverage Issues in Construction Defect Claims (April 2008)
Mealey’s Insurance Insolvency and Reinsurance Roundtable
Compelling Receivers to Arbitrate under the Federal Arbitration Act (April 1999)
Texas-Louisiana Oil and Gas Symposium
Environmental Coverage Under First-Party Policies (1992)
Defense Research Institute
Duty to Defend and the Right to Control the Defense (1991)
RECOGNITION
CONSISTENTLY RECOGNIZED BY THE PROFESSION
Consistently recognized by the profession’s most rigorous rating systems.
AV PREEMINENT
Martindale-Hubbell
Highest Peer Rating — Awarded for exceptional legal ability, communication skills, and high ethical standards.
Since 1978 · Continuously Maintained
Super Lawyers
Insurance Coverage (2004–2026)
22 yrs
Best Lawyers in America
Insurance Coverage (2006–2026)
20 yrs
Texas Bar Foundation
Life Fellow
Fellow
SMU Law – Order of the Coif
J.D. 1978 · Top Academic Distinction
1978
RECOGNITION
CONSISTENTLY RECOGNIZED BY THE PROFESSION
Consistently recognized by the profession’s most rigorous rating systems.
Super Lawyers
Insurance Coverage (2004–2026)
Martindale-Hubbell
AV Preeminent
Best Lawyers in America
Insurance Coverage (2006–2026)
Texas Bar Foundation
Life Fellow
SMU Law – Order of the Coif
J.D. 1978 · Top Academic Distinction
“Experience That Moves Cases Forward.”
When the issues are complex and the stakes are real, resolution depends on more than process. It depends on judgment, experience, and the ability to understand what is actually driving the dispute.