Professional and Civic Activities
- Rated AV in Martindale Hubbell
- Member of Unidroit Committee of Government Experts in Rome
- April 2002, participated in negotiations to form a Model Franchise Disclosure Law
- Member of the International Bar Association (Vice Chair, Committee X)
- Member of the International Franchise Association (Council of Franchise Suppliers)
- Member of the American Arbitration Association Panel of Arbitrators International/Domestic from 1990 – 1998
- Member of the International Commercial Dispute Resolution Committee of ABA Section of International Law and Practice
- Member of The Institute for Transnational Arbitration, a Division of The Center For American And International Law (formerly The Southwestern Legal Foundation)
- Member of the American Bar Association International Section
- Member of the ABA Forum on Franchising
- Member of the State Bar of Texas Intellectual Property Section (International Law and Franchising Committee)
- Member of the Dallas Bar Association (Chair, Equal Access Campaign 2000; Founding Member and Director, Franchise Law Section)
- Member of Federal Bar Association
- Member of the Southwestern Legal Foundation (Board of Advisors)
- Member of the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce (former Chair, Trade Mission Committee)
- Listed in an International “Who’s Who” of Franchise Lawyers
- Founder, University of Texas School of Law’s annual Expanding Abroad Conference
- Member, University of Texas Millennium Committee
- Member Texas Appleseed and the Appleseed Foundation
- Greenhill School Dallas Building Campaign Committee
- Greenhill School Dallas Annual Giving Campaign (Former Grade Chair)
- Former Member of Board of Medisend International
- Member of Board of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas, Inc.
- Listed in Franchise Times magazine top “Legal Eagle in Franchising”
- Recipient of 2005 Pro Bono Service Award by the Texas Appleseed Foundation
- Member, IBA Section on Business Law
- Member, IBA Asia Pacific Forum
- Member, Latin America/Caribbean Forum
- Former Member State Bar of Texas Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee