Alan Bush Named to Super Lawyers 2026 for Alternate Dispute Resolution, Mediation Practice

Two years into Alan’s new career as a mediator, Super Lawyers named him to its 2026 list.

Cancer, Alan thought, had ended his days on Super Lawyers lists. Making a list again seemed out of the question; he had no business surviving.

God had other plans. He gave Alan unexplainable peace, while healing me. My incredible wife fought beside me. God then brought Alan together with folks, like Felicia Harris Hoss, who worked hard together to push mediation practice further.

Alan Bush is a Houston area mediator. He helps parties resolve civil and employment disputes.

Houston Bar Association Hosts Alan for a 3-Hour Ethics CLE

The Houston Bar Association played host for Alan Bush and Felicia Harris Hoss to broadcast and record three of their ethics talks. Alan and Felicia, as always, had a blast presenting.

The first talk came peppered with video clips from football comedies. Golf comedy clips punctuated the second talk. And the third talk was an all-out gameshow-style competition.

Maximize Resolution's Value:
The Ethical Touchdown Before The Endzone

Mediation timing matters. Wait too long to settle, fees chew up your client’s value. Settle too early, lose the value of pressing your client’s strongest position. As a client’s advisor, counsel owes ethical duties to consider alternative paths to resolution. We’ll talk out practical skills to advise clients and make the most of mediation at any stage of a case.

Advanced Mediation Advocacy and Ethics:
Drive for Show, Putt for Dough

Long drives turn heads; putting skills win tournaments and fans. Trial practice is the same. Over 95% of disputes settle before the long drive to trial. The mediation session is often the closest thing to the client’s day in court. We’ll talk out client-centered advanced mediation and advocacy skills – like advising the client on the mediation process and timing, preparation, and strategy, and ways to effectively work with mediators. Our goal: Your clients will come running back to you and send their friends too.

Are You Ethically Smarter In Court Than a Fifth Grader?

Most ethical rules, boiled down, are common sense. That’s true even when the situation looks complicated. So in Foxworthy-style, we’ll test you out. Compete live against your classmates for all the bragging rights. Are you ethically smarter in court than a fifth grader?

Alan Bush is a Houston area mediator. He helps parties resolve civil and employment disputes.

The Litigation Section for the Houston Bar Association Taps Alan to Talk Ethics

The Houston Bar Association’s Litigation Section tapped Alan again - this time, with Felicia Harris Hoss - to talk legal ethics. Alan and Felicia had a blast giving this Foxworthy-style webinar:

Are You Ethically Smarter In Court Than a Fifth Grader?

Most ethical rules, boiled down, are common sense. That’s true even when the situation looks complicated. So in Foxworthy-style, we’ll test you out. Compete live against your classmates for all the bragging rights. Are you ethically smarter in court than a fifth grader?

Alan Bush is a Houston area mediator. He helps parties resolve civil and employment disputes.

The Houston Bar Association's Labor & Employment Section Hosts Alan Moderating a Texas Business Court Judicial Panel

The Houston Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Section hosted Alan Bush who moderated a panel of both judges from the Texas Business Court - Houston Division. Judges Grant Dorfman and Sofia Adrogue gave a great talk on the TBC’s expanded jurisdiction.

The Texas Court Builds on its Inaugural Year -
With Expanded Jurisdiction Over Trade Secrets

Building on a strong inaugural year, the Texas Business Courts now have concurrent jurisdiction over disputes about trade secrets and other intellectual property. The plaintiff might prefer to file in Business Court, or the defendant may find it advantageous to remove there. The two sitting Business Court judges will discuss their court's new jurisdiction — along with their court's procedures for injunctive relief, emergency motions, sealing the record, trial settings, scheduling orders, and more. 

Alan Bush is a Houston area mediator. He helps parties resolve civil and employment disputes. Alan is on the mediator wheel for the Texas Business Court.

Houston Bar Asssociation Solo and Small Firm Section Taps Alan to Talk "Advanced Mediation Advocacy and Ethics"

The Houston Bar Association’s Solo and Small Firm Section called on Alan and Felicia Harris Hoss to present on mediation advocacy and ethics. The pair of Aggie mediators answered the call.

Riddled with clips from golf comedies, the pair gave this talk:

Advanced Mediation Advocacy and Ethics: Drive for Show, Putt for Dough

Long drives turn heads; putting skills win tournaments and fans. Trial practice is the same. Over 95% of disputes settle before the long drive to trial. The mediation session is often the closest thing to the client’s day in court. We’ll talk out client-centered advanced mediation and advocacy skills – like advising the client on the mediation process and timing, preparation, and strategy, and ways to effectively work with mediators. Our goal: Your clients will come running back to you and send their friends too.

Alan Bush is a Houston area mediator. He helps parties resolve civil and employment lawsuits.

Texas Bar Calls Alan to Speak on "Advanced Mediation Advocacy and Ethics"

TexasBarCLE once again called on Alan to give a recorded webinar - his third, so far. Alan and Felicia Harris Hoss had a blast presenting this talk, punctuated with video clips from golf comedies:

Advanced Mediation Advocacy and Ethics:
Drive for Show, Putt for Dough

Long drives turn heads; putting skills win tournaments and fans. Trial practice is the same. Over 95% of disputes settle before the long drive to trial. The mediation session is often the closest thing to the client’s day in court. We’ll talk out client-centered advanced mediation and advocacy skills – like advising the client on the mediation process and timing, preparation, and strategy, and ways to effectively work with mediators. Our goal: Your clients will come running back to you and send their friends too.

Alan is a Houston area mediator. He helps parties resolve civil and employment disputes.

Texas Business Courts Appoint Alan to Their Mediator Wheel

The Texas Business Courts published their mediator wheel recently. It includes 22 Texas mediators — including Alan.

Besides serving on the mediator wheel for both civil district courts in Montgomery County and several courts in Harris County, Alan is honored to be included by the Texas Business Courts too.

Alan is a Houston area mediator. He helps parties resolve civil and employment disputes.

HR Southwest Again Calls Alan To Speak: This Time on Mediation

Alan spoke for HR Southwest every year from 2012 until 2018. Then cancer ended his streak. But today, he’s cancer-free and back. HRSW called Alan to speak on his current craft — mediation:

Mediation: Mystery Graveyard for HR Lawsuits

Most employment lawsuits end at mediation. Counsel explains the process, but there’s more at play. How early is too early to mediate? What’s happening in the employee-turned-plaintiff’s room? What emotions may bubble up with our own team? We’ll paint a picture with clips from movies and shows.

You can still register for HR Southwest here:

Alan is a Houston area mediator. He helps parties resolve civil and employment disputes.

Alan Moderates Panel of Both Houston Business Court Judges

The Montgomery County Bar Association tasked Alan with organizing and moderating a panel of both Business Court judges in the Houston Division. Mission accomplished!

The panel happened on 8.27.25 at the Black Walnut.

Along with Montgomery County District Courts’ rocket-docket, the Business Courts are now also a viable option to resolve business disputes.

A View from the Texas Business Court: The Inaugural Year — Progress & Momentum

Alan is a Houston area mediator. He helps parties resolve civil and employment disputes.

Texas Bar Broadcasts and Records Alan's Ethics CLE on Practicing Through Cancer and Other Medical Crises

The Texas Bar broadcast and recorded Alan’s popular talk about practicing through cancer and other medical crises. He broadcast the ethics CLE live and recorded it with TexasBar CLE.

Practicing Through Cancer — and Other Medical Crises

Chances are high that you or a buddy lawyer will have a serious medical crisis by age 55. Get ready now. Understand the ethical duties in play. Think through a rough plan to cover your tail, so you can keep practicing. A three-time cancer survivor tells his lessons learned with video clips of comedies.

When the recorded show becomes available, we’ll post it.

Alan is a Houston area mediator. He helps parties resolve civil and employment disputes.

Texas Mediator Credentialing Association Taps Alan to Speak

The TMCA’s Annual Symposium has called Alan to speak on 10..25.25. He’s humbled. Alan leads off the day, followed immediately by Justice Lehrmann and Hon. John Coselli.

Gulp! Big shoes to fill.

Alan will deliver a variant of his popular negotiation ethics talk:

The Ethical Fine Line in Mediation

Negotiations can involve pressure, particularly when attorneys may not be carefully measuring their words. How far is too far to go to get that “sweet deal”? Ethically, that is. As mediators, we’ll get a feel for how to better actively listen to the parties and counsel who want to walk right up to the ethical line.

Register for the Symposium here:

Alan is a Houston area mediator. He helps parties resolve civil and employment disputes.

17th Annual Business Disputes Called Alan to Speak

The Texas Bar called Alan to speak again — this time, for the 17th Annual Business Disputes Course. He presented his popular topic:

Negotiation Ethics: When You Can’t Back Down

Negotiations involve pressure. When your back is to the wall, how far can or should you go to get a sweet deal? Ethically, that is. Lawyers must measure their words to opponents – and their own clients.

Did you miss it? Register and watch the recorded course here.

Alan is a Houston area mediator. He helps parties resolve civil and employment disputes.

Alan To Serve on the Section Council for the Houston Bar Association's Labor & Employment Section

The HBA’s Labor & Employment Section recently invited Alan to serve on its Section Council. Alan is honored to serve his fellow lawyers.

Alan is a Houston area mediator. He helps parties resolve civil and employment disputes.

Texas Bar Labor & Employment Section Taps Alan for the Labor & Employment Institute

The State Bar of Texas tapped Alan to speak for its Labor & Employment Section. He’ll speak for the 35th Annual Labor & Employment Institute.

“Practicing Through Cancer — and Other Deep Medical Crises” will be Alan’s topic on 8.22.25. He’s practiced through three rounds in the ring with aggressive, genetic-caused cancer. Now Alan offers ethics tips to lawyers to keep pushing, but take care of themselves and their clients.

Back before cancer, Alan frequented this conference. He made great memories at the lazy river with his wife and two daughters.

Houston Bar Association Labor & Employment Section Calls Alan To Speak on Mediation

The Houston Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Section has tapped Alan and Felicia to speak about early mediation to a roomful of employment lawyers. Here are the details:

Maximize Resolution’s Value:
The Ethical Touchdown Before The Endzone
8.12.25 at High Noon
Brennan’s of Houston or Virtual

Mediation timing matters. Wait too long to settle, fees chew up your client’s value. Settle too early, lose the value of pressing your client’s strongest position. As a client’s advisor, counsel owes ethical duties to consider alternative paths to resolution. We’ll talk out practical skills to make the most of mediation at any stage of a case.

Texas Bar Taps Alan to Speak on Mediation

Alan will give a webinar CLE with fellow Aggie, Felicia Harris Hoss, from the State Bar’s recording studio in Austin. Here are the details:

MAximize Resolution’s Value:
The Touchdown Before the End Zone

Tuesday 7.22.25
12:30 - 1:30 pm

Mediation timing matters. Wait too long to settle, fees chew up your client's value. Settle too early, lose the value of pressing your client's strongest position. Once you're in mediation, shepherd your client through the three bargaining phases. And make sure to bring your tools to break past anchoring and through impasse.

Trade Secrets, Business Courts, and a $51 Million TUTSA Trial - Texas Lawyer Article

Texas Lawyer just published Alan’s latest article. It’s titled “Business Courts Can Soon Hear Trade Secret Disputes: Lessons from a $51 Million Trial in Montgomery County.”

In the article, Alan unpacks:

• How House Bill 40 opens up Business Courts to trade secret disputes over $5 million;

• A recent trial of a $51 million Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act claim that resulted in a double-directed verdict in Montgomery County; and

• How the Business Courts may be a venue worth considering for trade secrets disputes in certain situations.

Find the article here.

Alan Bush is a mediator. He mediates civil and employment disputes in person at several locations across Greater Houston—and over Zoom throughout Texas.

State Bar Labor & Employment Section Tapped Alan to Talk FLSA Settlement

Alan recently presented “Can Your FLSA Settlement Slide Past The Judge” for the State Bar of Texas’ Labor & Employment Section. Given Alan’s work on both sides of the FLSA collective action docket, he had plenty to share.

Alan Bush is a mediator. He mediates civil and employment disputes in person at several locations across Greater Houston – and over Zoom throughout Texas.

Houston Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Section Tapped Alan to Speak on FLSA Settlement

Alan recently presented “Can Your FLSA Settlement Pass The Judge"?” for the Houston Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Section. His slide deck and article are available at Can Your FLSA Settlement Pass The Judge - Article PP.pdf.

Alan Bush is a mediator. He mediates civil and employment disputes in person at several locations across Greater Houston – and over Zoom throughout Texas.

Houston Bar Association’s Litigation Section Taps Alan to Speak on Negotiation Ethics

The speaking trail calls Alan again. The Houston Bar Association Litigation Section has tapped Alan to give his popular ethics CLE titled “Negotiation Ethics: When You Can’t Back Down.”

Negotiations involve pressure. When your back is to the wall, how far can you (or should you) go to get a sweet deal? Ethically, that is. Lawyers must measure their words to opponents - and their own clients. Movies and shows have lessons to teach.

Join Alan for this CLE on 1.22.25 at Brennan’s. Register here.

Due to the winter storm, the HBA Litigation Section has postponed the Alan’s Negotiation Ethics talk until Friday 1.31.25.

Though Bush Mediation, Alan Bush mediates across the Houston area — focusing on disputes about employment, civil trials and personal injury.