“We don’t do boring.”
-Alan
speaking
Can Your FLSA Settlement
Get Past The Judge?
SBOT Annual Meeting — Labor and Employment Section
6.19.25
Houston Bar — Labor & Employment Section and ADR Section
4.30.25 — CLE Article Available
Negotiation Ethics:
When You Can’t Back Down
Texas Mediator Credentialing Association — Annual Conference
10.25.25
TexasBarCLE — 17th Annual Business Disputes
9.12.25
Brazoria County Bar
4.9.25
Fort Bend County Bar
2.27.25
Houston Bar — Litigation Section
1.31.25
Montgomery County Bar
6.12.24
The Woodlands Bar
4.26.24
Maximize Resolution’s Value:
The Touchdown Before the Endzone
TexasBarCLE — Webinar
7.22.25
Joint CLE with Felicia Harris Hoss
A View from the Texas Business Court:
The Inaugural Year — Progress & Momentum
Montgomery County Bar
8.27.25
Moderator for Hons. Adrogué and Dorfman — 11th Business Court
Mediation: Mystery graveyard
for hr lawsuits
HR Southwest Conference 2025
10.13.25
Practicing Law Through Medical Crisis
American Bar Association — Mediation Section
5.14.25
Montgomery County Bar — Bench-and-Bar Conference
5.2.25
Texas Aggie Bar — Annual Conference
3.1.25
The Woodlands Bar
10.9.24
“I Just Strong-Armed A Great Settlement! Could I Also Get Disbarred?”
Montgomery County Bar
5.3.19
The Woodlands Bar
2.13.19
Trade Secret and Overtime Pay Lessons from the Oil Patch
Montgomery County Bar — Law Day Bench-and-Bar
5.6.16
Texas A&M Law Review — Energy Law Symposium
4.2.15
Woodlands Bar
10.15.13
Digital Damage Control:
Trade Secret Theft
HR Southwest
10.27.15
Tapping A Competitor’s Talent Pool:
Non-Competes and Trade Secrets
HR Southwest
10.11.13
New Day for Non-Competes
HR Southwest
6.21.12
MC-SHRM
6.21.12
Montgomery County Bar
3.30.12
Non-Compete, Non-Disclosure and Non-Solicit: Can Someone Explain it?
South Texas College of Law — Employment Law Conference
7.2.13
Can You Keep A Secret?
TUTSA Enters The Scene.
Woodlands Bar
11.6.14
HR Meets CSI: Nothing Up My Sleeve, But Hands Off My Thumb Drive
Woodlands Bar
10.13.11
Personal Injury Lawyers Want You: Overtime Pay
Woodlands Bar
11.9.18
Overtime Pay: Sleepless in San Antonio
Texas CPA Society — CPE by the Sea
6.15.18
HR Houston — Monthly Meeting
2.14.18
Houston Bar — Litigation Section
10.18.17
Houston CPA Society — Spring Accounting Expo
5.23.17
HR Southwest
10.19.16
Texas CPA Society — Expo
1.13.15
HR Legal Lessons from the Oil Patch
Montgomery County Bar — Law Day Bench-and-Bar
5.6.16
Overtime Pay — Safe to Go in the Water?
HR Southwest
10.26.15
Overtime Lessons from the Oil Patch
HR Southwest
10.9.13
Overtime Claims: Save Your Company
(and your own skin)
HR Southwest
10.17.12
Gulf Coast Symposium
5.10.12
Employing People in a Trump Era
Texas CPA Society — Expo
11.29.18
HR Southwest
10.4.17
The Defenders
South Texas College of Law — Employment Law Conference
6.24.12
So You’ve Got an EEOC Charge?
HR Southwest
10.17.18
Zip It! The Boss’ Words Can Bite You.
HR Southwest
10.17.18
Living With the Complaining Employee
HR Southwest
10.3.17
Gulf Coast Symposium
5.11.17
HR in the Hot Seat: 20/20 Hindsight
HR Southwest
10.4.17
27 Things Plaintiff’s Counsel is Begging You To Do
Gulf Coast Symposium
5.10.18
Are You Smarter Than a Plaintiff’s Lawyer?
Gulf Coast Symposium
5.10.18
HR Optics
Gulf Coast Symposium
5.12.17
When The Other Guy’s Employees
Are Yours Too
HR Southwest
10.18.16
Investigation Report: Lights Out
HR Southwest
10.27.16
Love Gone Sour — Legal Issues That Spoil M&A
HR Southwest
10.26.15
Investigations on the Record (Strictly)
HR Southwest
10.27.14
Writing
Negotiating When You Can’t Back Down
Texas Lawyer — Article Available
5.22.24
What Campaigns Can Teach Lawyers
About Negotiating
Texas Lawyer — Article Available
3.15.19
Off-the-Clock Overtime Pay Class Lawsuits: It Only Takes One Ex-Employee
SBOT Corporate Counsel Review — Article Available
11.30.16
Early Christmas Present for Plaintiff’s Overtime Counsel
Texas Lawyer — Article Available
11.1.16
Open Letter to a Data Thief
(Turned Federal Defendant)
Texas Lawyer — Article Available
Overtime Pay Front-and-Center
Texas Lawyer — Article Available
4.20.16
DOL Retools Joint Employment
SBOT Corporate Counsel Newsletter — Article Available
4.4.16
People Problems in Deals: Overtime Pay, Trade Secrets and Non-competes
SBOT Corporate Counsel Review — Article Available
11.2.15
HR Legal Troubles That Spoil M&A
Texas Lawyer — Article Available
4.20.15
Trial Lessons from Running A Campaign
Texas Lawyer — Article Available
12.15.14
Rethink Non-Competes
Texas Lawyer — Article Available
9.914
Texas Steps Into The Fray on
the “Uniform” Trade Secrets Act
SBOT Corporate Counsel Review — Article Available
11.20.13
Work Boots, Not Wing Tips
Texas Lawyer — Article Available
10.14.13
Major Changes in the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act
Texas Lawyer — Article Available
5.27.13
Get Smart About Non-Competes
Texas Lawyer — Article Available
4.1.13
Trade Secrets: Security for Soft IP
SBOT Corporate Counsel Review — Article Available
11.6.12
How To Survive the Overtime Dog Pile
Texas Lawyer — Article Available
11.5.12
Out of the Boxing Ring,
Into The Courtroom
Texas Lawyer — Article Available
10.15.12
Provisions That Turbocharge a Non-Compete
Texas Lawyer — Article Available
12.12.11