- Board member and former president, National Association of Former United States Attorneys (NAFUSA)
- President, NAFUSA Foundation
- Member, American Bar Association
- Founder, Southwest Section, Committee for White Collar Crime
- Former chair, Criminal Justice Section, White Collar Crime Committee’s North Texas/Oklahoma Region Subcommittee (2008)
- Member, Bar Association, Fifth Federal Circuit
- Member, Dallas Bar Association
- Member, Texas Bar Foundation
- Member, Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee in Texas (2009-2011)
- Board member, Dallas Classic Film Festival
- Treasurer
- Advisory board member, Texas Book Festival
- Advisory council member, Harry Ransom Center
- Emeritus board member, Dallas CASA
- Past president, North Texas Crime Commission
- U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, 1993-2001
- Texas special assistant attorney general, 1991-1993
- Assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, 1980-1983
Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1978, Harvard Civil Rights, Civil Liberties Law Review
- Oxford University, Diploma in Law, 1977
- Oxford University, B.A., 1974, First Class Honors; Rhodes Scholar
- Yale University, B.A., summa cum laude with departmental distinction, 1973, Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
- Texas
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Presenter, “Doctors in the Crosshairs: DOJ’s Scrutiny of the Medical Profession,” Lawline, October 2025.
- Speaker, “Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Amendments and Strategies,” Lawline, April 9, 2024.
- Speaker, “Business Fraud Update and Managing the Risk of Fraud,” ACPEN Signature, September 20, 2023.
- Speaker, “Trends in Antitrust: Regulation of the Labor Market Through Increased Criminal Enforcement,” Lawline, May 2, 2023.
- Speaker, “Trends in Antitrust: Regulating the Labor Market Through Increased Criminal Enforcement,” Quimbee, October 10, 2022.
- Speaker, “2022 Business Fraud Update and Managing the Risk of Fraud,” ACPEN, September 21, 2022.
- Speaker, “Antitrust Risks Arising from No-Poach and Wage-Fixing Agreements,” Texas Association of Business: Employment Relations Symposium 2022, August 11, 2022.
- Speaker, “Cybersecurity Update: Latest Trends,” Dallas Startup Week, August 10, 2022.
- Speaker, “Defending Criminal No-Poach & Wage Fixing Claims,” State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting, June 9, 2022.
- Speaker, “Criminal Antitrust Investigations and Trials – Recent Lessons,” Federal Bar Association, May 20, 2022.
- Speaker, “Ethical Issues Facing In-House Counsel,” UT Law CLE: 7th Annual Government Enforcement Institute, October 1, 2021.
- Speaker, “How to Survive a DOJ Investigation,” Locke Lord, October 7, 2020.
- Speaker, “The State of the Justice Department: Are We In Crisis?” Dallas Democratic Forum, September 17, 2020.
- Author, “From Counsel to Co-Defendant: Beware of the Crime-Fraud Exception,” Dallas Bar Association, May 2020.
- Interviewed, “‘Picking the Right Word’: Troutman Pepper Locke’s Paul Coggins Talks Trials, Fiction Writing,” The Texas Lawbook, October 15, 2026. Republished in Dallas Morning News, October 18, 2026, and mentioned in The Texas Lawbook, October 19, 2026.
- Quoted, “Texas Feels the Fallout as Federal White-Collar Cases Decline,” Texas Lawbook, July 8, 2026.
- Quoted, “Federal Judge Dismisses Texas Kickback Indictment Involving 10 Doctors, Pharma Executives,” The Texas Lawbook, February 23, 2026.
- Quoted, “Government Drops Case Over Referrals-For-Kickback Scheme,” Law360, February 18, 2026.