Representative Presentations
Evidence
"Invasion of Privacy – Illegally Obtained Evidence, Wiretapping, and Video Recording"
State Bar of Texas Marriage Dissolution Course - 1999
"Taping, Wiretapping, E-mail Interception, Surveillance, Scanners, etc. - What's Possible and What's Legal"
State Bar of Texas Advanced Family Law Course – 1999
"Lies and Audiotape: Is It Live or Is It Memorex?"
Tarrant County/Dallas County Bar Association Summer Seminar
"Private Investigators – Problems and Privileges"
State Bar of Texas Annual Advanced Family Law Course – 2002
"Invasion of Privacy and Rules of Evidence"
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers – 2002
"Children In Court: Should You? A Powerful Small Voice"
Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists – 2004
"Evidentiary Issues in Termination of Parental Rights: An Interactive Simulation prepared by J. Eric Smithburn"
Texas Center for the Judiciary – Associate Judges Conference
"Internet Sex and Chicken-fried Lies"
Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists Annual Course - 2007
"Testing 1, 2, 3: Reading Between the Lines"
Dallas Bar Association Summer Family Law Seminar
"Social Study and Psychological Evaluation: Expert or Expertise?"
State Bar of Texas Annual Advanced Family Law Course – 2007
"Electronic Evidence and Information"
University of Texas School of Law Annual Family Law on the Front Lines Conference
"Evidence" (Judges Panel)
State Bar of Texas Annual Marriage Dissolution Institute – 2009
"Evidence Jeopardy"
Texas Center for the Judiciary – Associate Judges Conference
"Evidence Jeopardy"
Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists Annual Course 2011
Ethics
"Pro Se Litigants and Ex Parte Communications: Ethics for Judges"
Texas Center for the Judiciary – College for Judicial Studies
"Self-Represented Litigants in the Courtroom"
Texas Center for the Judiciary College for New Judges – 2008
"The Curious Judge"
Texas Center for the Judiciary – Annual Judicial Conference 2010
Family Violence
"Protective Orders: A View from the Bench"
Dallas Bar Association Pro Bono Training
"Federal Law and Family Violence"
Tarrant County/Dallas County Bar Association Summer Seminar
"Violence Against Women Act; A National Response to Domestic Violence"
State Bar of Texas Annual Advanced Family Law Course – 2000
"A National Response to Family Violence: The Violence Against Women Act and Texas Law"
State Bar of Texas Firearms Law Seminar – 2003
"A National Response to Family Violence: The Violence Against Women Act and Texas Law"
State Bar of Texas Firearms Law Seminar – 2004
"Controlling the Controlling Spouse – Mediation and Trial"
State Bar of Texas Annual Advanced Family Law Course
"The Impact of Findings of Family Violence"
Texas Center for the Judiciary – Regional Conferences 2011
Suits Affecting the Parent-Child Relationship
"Recent Developments in Suits Affecting the Parent-Child Relationship"
Dallas Bar Association; Solo and Small Firm Section
"Paternity: The Law and its Practical Applications" (Jointly with Doug Dunn, Esq.)
Guardian Ad Litem Training 1997 Spring Series
"Have a Cigar, It's A Baby: Recent Developments in Paternity Issues"
(Jointly with Fredrick S. Adams, Esq.)
Tarrant County/Dallas County Bar Association Summer Seminar
"Unusual Issues With Children"
State Bar of Texas Annual Advanced Family Law Course – 2002
"Unusual Possession: Structuring Access for the Divided Family"
Texas Center for the Judiciary - College for Judicial Studies 2004
"The Qualified Medical Child Support Order: A New Way to Prolong Litigation"
Dallas Association of Legal Assistants
Family Law
"Closing the File in a Family Law Case"
Dallas Bar Association: Pro Bono Training
"What You Always Needed to Know About Family Law But Did Not Know Enough to Ask" (Jointly with Fredrick S. Adams, Esq.)
Dallas Bar Association; Solo and Small Firm Section
"Deadlines Every Family Lawyer Should Know"
State Bar of Texas Annual Advanced Family Law Course
"Family Law 101 – An Overview"
State Bar of Texas – Paralegal Division
"Juvenile Law: No More Kiddie Court"
Dallas Bar Association; Solo and Small Firm Section
Temporary Orders
"Temporary Orders: We've Only Just Begun Again"
Texas Association of Legal Assistants
"Temporary Orders: We've Only Just Begun"
Clearwater Information Systems, Inc.: Family Law Practice for Paralegals
"Traps for the Unwary: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go to the Courthouse"
Tarrant County/Dallas County Bar Association Summer Seminar
Judicial Perspective and Administration
"Herding Cats: Docket Management and Control"
State Bar of Texas Annual Advanced Family Law Course – 2001
"Ways to Tick Off the Judge"
University of Texas School of Law Family Law on the Front Lines – 2003
"The Pro Se Litigant"
Texas Center for the Judiciary; College for New Judges – 2006
"Managing and Controlling Attorneys and Pro Se Litigants"
Texas Center for the Judiciary; Associate Judges Training – 2006
"Effective and Cost-Efficient Drafting"
University of Texas Parenting Plan Conference – 2006
"Overruled: A View from the Bench"
University of Texas School of Law Annual Family Law on the Front Lines Conference
"What Family Court Judges Want You to Know"
National Business Institute – 2008
"Fatal Drafting Mistakes: Perspective from the Bench"
Advanced Family Law Drafting Course – 2008
"So You Want to Be a Judge: From the Bar to the Bench"
State Bar of Texas Webcast - 2009
"Pro Se Litigants"
Texas Association of Court Administrators Annual Conference
"What Family Court Judges Want You to Know"
National Business Institute – 2010
"The Self-Represented Litigant In Court"
State Bar of Texas - Bar Leaders Conference 2010
"Sharpening Your Jury Skills"
State Bar of Texas Annual Advanced Family Law Course – 2010
Updates
"Legislative Update: What Have They Done for Us Lately?"
Dallas Family Law Summer Seminar - 2003
"Family Law Case Update"
Texas Center for the Judiciary – Regional Conferences 2005
"Case Law Update"
State Bar of Texas Annual Advanced Family Law Course – 2005
"CPS Case Law Update"
Dallas Bar Association; Juvenile Justice Committee Seminar – 2005
"Bench Book Update: Family Law"
Texas Center for the Judiciary – Annual Judicial Conference 2009
Miscellaneous
"Representing Children in Protective Care: A View from the Bench"
(Jointly with Gracie Lewis, 305th Judicial District Court)
Guardian Ad Litem Training 1998 Spring Series
"The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment: The Impact on Texas Gun
Laws"
State Bar of Texas Webcast – 2008
"Termination to Permanency: Is Texas Failing Our Kids?"
Texas Center for the Judiciary – CPS Judicial Conference
"Rule 194 and Other Discovery Hazards"
State Bar of Texas Annual Advanced Family Law Course – 2009