On November 5, 2025, I will have practiced law for twenty years. I started out in 2005 with a desk, phone and covering the hearings for a personal injury attorney in 2005 in Sherman, TX. The local judges had known me from interning for Sheriff Keith Gary, Judge Paul Brown, and District Attorney Joe Brown, so let me start with state jail felonies and third degree felony appointments rather than just misdemeanors. I mainly covered criminal and family law hearings for him while I built up my own practice through court appointments, referrals and advertising on the internet and otherwise. I even bought matches and coasters with my information and placed them at the local bars and bar/restaurant scene in Grayson and Cooke county. I sent direct mails to DWI arrests in Grayson and Fannin county, encouraging them to come in before their drivers license was automatically suspended if they didn’t request the ALR hearing within 15 days. The only case I know for sure to have come from one of the matchbooks was an important felony aggravated assault case in Cooke County that ended up being my first jury trial win in 2006. My client had chased his ex up and down highway 82 in Gainesville to retrieve his daughter from her vehicle, as it was his day for custody and she was playing games. She happened to be friends with the police officers, who arrested him for aggravated assault when he backed his car into hers in the median. We got a misdemeanor fine only and no jail time from a very fair jury.
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