Fred Hagans

Fred Hagans is the founder of Hagans Burdine Montgomery & Rustay, P.C. in Houston. He is certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Civil Trial Law and Personal Injury Trial Law. Fred is a graduate of the University of Texas Law School (1972) and he obtained his B.A. at the University of Texas in 1969. Mr. Hagans has served as Past President and Director, for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Gulf Coast Chapter. He is a member of Million Dollar Advocates Forum, American Board of Trial Advocates, National Board of Trial Advocacy, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and Houston Trial Lawyers Association. Fred is also a Fellow of ...

The Honorable Karen Gren Johnson

The Honorable Karen Gren Johnson joined the Dallas office of Jones Day in 2009 after eight years of judicial service as a state district judge where she presided over thousands of civil cases, including well over 100 cases tried to jury verdict. Prior to her judicial service she was in private practice for 18 years where she focused on complex tort, product liability, business, and other general civil litigation. Ms. Johnson is the recipient of numerous honors, including the 2008 Dallas Asian American Bar Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the first such award ever given by the organization; the Dallas Women Lawyers Association 2007 Louise B. Raggio Award for "significant contributions...

Charles Herring, Jr.

  Chuck Herring is a lawyer in Austin, Texas and is a partner in the law firm of Herring & Irwin, L.L.P. He is certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is co-author with Professor Albright of the West Practice series volume Handbook on Texas Discovery Practice, and since 1990 he has written Texas Legal Malpractice and Lawyer Discipline, which he updates annually. He has written many articles on legal malpractice, legal ethics, and litigation topics, and has taught and lectured extensively on those subjects. In 1991 the Texas Supreme Court appointed him to chair the Statewide Task Force on Sanctions, and the Court also appointe...

Justice Douglas S. Lang

Since October 24, 2002, Justice Lang has served as one of 13 Justices on the Court of Appeals, 5th District of Texas at Dallas. Justice Lang has also served as a member of the Texas Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation since 2003 after having been appointed by the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. In 2007, Lang was specially commissioned by the Governor of Texas to sit on a case at the Texas Supreme Court. His practice began as a briefing attorney at the Supreme Court of Missouri immediately after his graduation from the University of Missouri, School of Law in May, 1972. Prior to law school, he graduated from Drake University in 1969 with a degree in Business Administrati...

Judge Lora J. Livingston

After her successful election, Judge Livingston was sworn in as Judge of the 261st District Court in January, 1999. She is the first African-American woman to serve on a district court in Travis County, Texas. In 1992, she received the “Outstanding Attorney” award from the Travis County Women Lawyers Association. In 2005, she received both the Texas Access to Justice Commission Pro Bono Champion Award and the Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation Harold F. Kleinman Award. Judge Livingston was also the recipient of the 2005-2006 Texas Center for the Judiciary Exemplary Judicial Faculty Award. She was awarded the Women of Distinction Award in 2006 by the Lonestar Girl Scouts Co...