- Won all but 3 of over 120 jury trials
- Board Certified as Specialist in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Since 1990
- Assistant District Attorney of Tarrant County (1984-1987)
- Member:
- American Board of Trial Advocates (Top 1% of Texas Trial Attorneys)
- Life Fellow-Texas Bar Foundation (1/2 of 1% of Texas Bar Membership)
- Appointed Chairman of Texas Business Advisory Council
- Member of Council on Litigation Management
- Texas and Dallas Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute
- Admitted to practice before all Texas State Courts and before Federal Courts
- Frequent speaker at continuing education seminars
- Texas Wesleyan University (B.A., Magna Cum Laude, 1980); Voted by faculty as most outstanding senior student of 1980 graduating class
- Texas Tech School of Law (J.D., 1983); Phi Delta Phi Scholastic Honors Fraternity