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"Managing the Complex Case" (SBOT, 2016 Advanced Trial Strategies Seminar Panel Presentation)."Emerging Technology: Legal Issues Involving Drones and Autonomous Vehicles" (SBOT, 2016 Advanced Personal Injury Law Course)."A Game of Drones" ( Trial, December 2015)."Autonomous Vehicles - What Does the Future Hold?" (State Bar of Texas, 2017 Advanced Personal Injury Law Course)."Getting to "Resolved:" Preparing Your Plaintiffs’ or Defense Damages Case,” Embry Riddle Aviation Law & Insurance Symposium (2018)."Knowing Your Audience – The Art of Resonating with Different Generations," State Bar of Texas 7 thAnnual Advanced Trial Strategies Seminar (2018)."General Aviation Revitalization Act – An Update," IATS 2018 Air & Transport Law Conference Panel Presentation (2018)."Trial Techniques and Tactics: Those Who Influence Juror Damage Awards," ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice (2018).Daimler," State Bar of Texas 8 thAnnual Advanced Trial Strategies (2019)."Forum Selection and Jurisdictional Challenges in Multiple Defendant Litigation Post."Initiating Litigation," State Bar of Texas 9 thAnnual Advanced Trial Strategies (2020)."Anatomy of an Air Crash," North Austin IMC Club Capital of Texas Aviation Seminar (2020)."Preparing for the Virtual Trial," State Bar of Texas Advanced Trial Strategies (2021)."Going Viral: COVID-Related Issues and Lessons Learned for Plaintiffs, Defendants, and Insurers," Embry-Riddle Aviation Law and Insurance Symposium (2021).J.D., The University of Texas at Austin.and M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University Mike is certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Civil Trial Advocate and by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Personal Injury Trial Law. He has been honored with the Outstanding Aerospace Engineer and Distinguished Aerospace Engineer Alumni Awards by the Texas A&M University's Department of Aerospace Engineering in the Dwight Look College of Engineering. In 2002, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics named Mike an Associate Fellow, a unique honor for an attorney.
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While at NASA he innovated a system, later used on Space Shuttle launches, which greatly mitigated flight loads during ascent. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mike was a senior aerospace engineer at NASA, where he worked on the Apollo-Soyuz and Space Shuttle programs and received special recognition from NASA for his contributions. That agreement also included an inspection protocol where he could visit the manufacturer’s facility and inspect the retrofit production line with no prior notice to the manufacturer. In a case where the product defect was being ignored by the manufacturer and the Federal Aviation Administration, he was able to negotiate a voluntary recall program as part of the settlement, in which the helicopter manufacturer agreed to establish a retrofit program for its owners to obtain a redesigned fuel system that eliminated the risk of a post-impact fire in otherwise survivable accidents. Besides securing optimum monetary compensation for his clients, Mike aggressively seeks to eliminate dangerous defects for unsafe products or practices. Mike has achieved record settlements and verdicts in numerous cases against aviation operators and manufacturers. He has received national media attention as an advocate for aviation safety, especially stronger federal oversight over unsafe products or practices in the realms of aircraft design and operations of air ambulances, charters, air tours and commercial hot air balloons. Mike makes it a priority to be proactive in a lawsuit and reduce or eliminate the risk of similar accidents or losses from happening in the future. He relentlessly seeks to identify the problem that led to the accident or loss and identify ways to correct deficiencies in the product or practice. In his legal career Mike has litigated or tried lawsuits in state or federal courts in 36 states.Īs an engineer, Mike is a problem solver. Besides providing the highest-quality legal services, Mike believes that it is his firm's responsibility not just to serve as our clients' legal advocate, but also to provide a comprehensive support system for our clients who have experienced a tragedy in their lives. For most of his legal career, he has focused on aviation accident cases, handling a diverse array of aviation accident cases in every aviation realm from major airline disasters to smaller general aviation aircraft. Mike's legal experience includes more than 36 years and litigating hundreds of lawsuits arising from catastrophic injuries and deaths due to unsafe products or practices.