“We don’t do boring.”

-Alan

speaking

Negotiation Ethics:
When You Can’t Back Down

17th Annual Business Disputes 2025
TexasBarCLE
9.12.25

Texas Mediator Credentialing Association — Annual Conference
10.25.25

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

Practicing Through Cancer — and other
medical crises

35th Annual Labor & Employment Institute
State Bar Labor & Employment Section
8.22.25

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

Maximize Resolution’s Value:
The Touchdown Before the Endzone

TexasBarCLE — Webinar
7.22.25
Joint CLE with Felicia Harris Hoss

Houston Bar Association — Labor & Employment Section
8.12.25
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

Can Your FLSA Settlement
Get Past The Judge?

State Bar Annual Meeting — Labor and Employment Section
6.19.25 — CLE Article Available

Houston Bar — Labor & Employment Section and ADR Section
4.30.25 — CLE Article Available

Mediation: Mystery graveyard
for Employment lawsuits

HR Southwest Conference 2025
10.13.25

“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

Business Courts Can Soon Hear Trade Secret Disputes: Lessons from a $51 million trial in montgomery county

Texas LawyerArticle Available
6.27.25

Negotiating When You Can’t Back Down

Texas Lawyer Article Available
5.22.24

What Campaigns Can Teach Lawyers
About Negotiating

Texas LawyerArticle Available
3.15.19

Trump and #MeToo: Arbitration Waivers

Texas Lawyer Article Available
8.29.18

Employment Arbitration and Eggs:
Ditching the Bad rap

Texas Lawyer — Article Available
10.31.17

HR Legal Needs Heart

Texas LawyerArticle Available
9.29.17

Escargot and Employee Lawsuits:
Best Gulped Down FAst

Texas Lawyer Article Available
12.12.16

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
6.22.16

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

Longer Reach Has Its Advantages in venue selection

Texas LawyerArticle Available
12.21.15

People Problems in Deals: Overtime Pay, Trade Secrets and Non-competes

SBOT Corporate Counsel Review — Article Available
11.2.15

Emmy red carpets and investigation reports

Texas Lawyer Article Available
10.12.15

Avoid Costly Litigation By Staying Up to date on slurs

Texas LawyerArticle Available
9.7.15

Use These Tips to Cut Defense Costs

Texas Lawyer Article Available
1.20.15

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
9.9.14

Make Forum Selection Like BBQ

Texas LawyerArticle Available
3.17.14

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

Behind Enemy lines:
Employee-side lawyer tactics

Texas Lawyer Article Available
5.14.12

Provisions That Turbocharge
a Non-Compete

Texas Lawyer Article Available
12.12.11