For the past 25 years, I have handled disputes and lawsuits in regulatory, state, and federal litigation, predominantly in commercial business litigation, but I have handled many personal injury cases in the context of other laws such as products liability and premises liability. I have represented both plaintiffs and defendants in trial and on appeal. Based on my extensive experience, I have a good handle on case dynamics, what it will be like going to trial, and what issues will survive to trial on a wide variety of cases. While many lawyers go to work for a firm in a certain practice area out of law school and stay there, I took an unorthodox approach to my career to satisfy my constant quest for new knowledge and experience, working at many different firms on many different types of cases. I started my career at Hays McConn in Houston – at the time a large Texas firm known for its litigation prowess. Indeed, it was known as the “drop you in the grease” firm, meaning, we were put to work immediately – no writing research memos in a cushy office up high for seven years—no, I conducted my first deposition the day after receiving my bar results (despite the late night before!) and my first trial two months to the day after passing the bar, capping off years of training with the firm while I was in school, writing motions, taking depositions, and attending hearings on the motions I wrote.