Biography
Tim’s practice focuses on insurance coverage, commercial litigation, and related appellate matters. He has experience litigating before federal and state courts in Texas and surrounding states, as well as on appeals to the Fifth and Tenth Circuits, Texas Supreme Court, and numerous immediate appellate courts in Texas.
Drawn to the rigorous Practice Court program at Baylor, Tim developed the advocacy skills that allowed him to make his first court appearance less than one week after he was sworn into the bar—winning an evidentiary argument on a critical piece of evidence and resulted in a favorable verdict for his client. Since then, Tim has represented clients as first and second chair and has taken cases to verdict in state and federal courts representing both plaintiffs and defendants. His appellate experience reinforces that appeals are won or lost at the trial court and Tim takes to heart Professor Gerald Powell’s advice that a good trial lawyer is a good record-smith. Whether it is forum battles, discovery disputes, dispositive motions, evidentiary issues, or the jury charge, Tim works tirelessly to position cases to ensure successful outcomes at the trial court and to defend those successes on appeal.
When he is not representing clients in the courtroom, Tim is in the classroom. Starting in 2024, Tim began working with UNT Dallas College of Law’s advocacy program. He organized and co-hosted UNT’s first appellate brief writing workshop where law students spent the day learning how to craft a compelling appellate brief—something one student called “the most valuable lesson he’s had in law school.” He has hosted the workshop every semester since. After the brief writing workshop is concluded, and the students have submitted their briefs, Tim then coaches moot court students competitions on how best to present oral argument at interscholastic competitions, where Tim’s students have a winning-record against the Ivy League.
Education
- Baylor Law School – J.D., 2019
- Texas Christian University – B.S. Political Science, 2015
Recognitions & Distinctions
- Texas Bar Foundation Fellow
- Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Leadership Class (2025)
Representative Experience
- Appellate counsel for insurance company in appeal to the Fifth Circuit. Prepared portion of the brief on appeal addressing federal court jurisdiction and the voluntary-involuntary rule, resulting in opinion from the Fifth Circuit affirming the trial court’s denial of motion to remand and resolving a sharp split of authority among district courts in Texas regarding removal jurisdiction and the voluntary-involuntary rule.
- Appellate counsel for Fortune 500 company related to trial court’s discovery order that included disclosure of company’s trade secrets without adequate protection. Motion for reconsideration, which was filed to bolster mandamus record, was granted, mooting need for appeal.
- Lead appellate counsel in mandamus proceeding seeking review of the trial court’s denial of motion to quash corporate representative deposition. After the court of appeals requested a response, the plaintiff agreed to withdraw the notice of deposition and mandamus was dismissed as moot.
- Appellate counsel for insurance company in appeal to the Fifth Circuit. Prepared brief and presented oral argument regarding application of intellectual property exclusion in insurance policy.
- Second-chair in multi-day jury trial defending insurance company in suit involving claims of breach of contract, insurance bad faith, and deceptive trade practices and counterclaims of fraud and conversion stemming from insurance claim arising from residential fire. After less than two hours of deliberations, the jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of insurance company on all claims.
- Obtained favorable settlement on behalf of manufacturing company in dispute about damage to pumps used in a power plant despite the insurance company’s initial denial and repeated refusal to reconsider its position by identifying previously overlooked argument that doubled potential damages in litigation.
Speaking Engagements & Presentations
- Appellate Brief Writing Workshop, UNT Dallas College of Law (hosted every semester since Fall 2024)
Publications
- Author, From Chaos to Clarity: Procedural Misjoinder Revisited, The Review of Litigation, volume 45, University of Texas (Forthcoming Spring 2026)
- Author, The Next Thirty Years: Developments in Mandamus Jurisprudence in the Last Thirty Years and Why the General Rule that Mandamus is Unavailable to Review the Denial of Summary Judgment is Inconsistent with Modern Mandamus Jurisprudence Under the In Re Prudential Balancing Test, 55 St. Mary’s L.J. 351 (April 2024)
- Contributor, Noteworthy Cases, Following the Fifth (Forthcoming May 2026)
- Co-Author, What is the Wayback Machine and How Can You Use it In Court?, Dallas Bar Association Headnotes (Aug. 2025)
- Co-Author, The Role of Coverage Counsel in Tort Litigation, Dallas Bar Association Headnotes (Nov. 2024)
Memberships & Affiliations
- State Bar of Texas
- Appellate, Construction, Litigation, and Insurance Sections
- Dallas Bar Association
- Appellate, Construction, Professionalism, Tort & Insurance Practice, and Trial Skills Sections
- Bench Bar Conference Committee (2024-present)
- Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
- Judiciary Committee, Member (2024-present), Co-Chair (2025-present)
- DAYL Leadership Class Steering Committee, Member (2025)
- American Bar Association
- Litigation, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice, and JD Appellate Judges Conference Sections
- Bar Association of the Federal Fifth Circuit
- Civil & Administrative Law Committee (2025-present)
- Texas Bar Foundation
- Fellow (2025-present)
Admissions
- State Bar of Texas
- United States District Court: Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, Northern and Western District of Oklahoma, District of New Mexico, Western District of Tennessee
- United States Courts of Appeals: Fifth and Tenth Circuits
Community Involvement
- UNT Dallas College of Law, Adjunct Faculty (2024-present)