- 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
- 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.