Areas of Practice:

• Antitrust
• Class actions
• Employment
• Energy
• Securities
• Other complex litigation

Examples of Clients Represented:

• Armstrong Rubber Co.
• Austin Diagnostic Clinic (401k Profit Sharing Plan)
• Austin Independent School District;
• Bally Manufacturing Corp.
• Bank of America Corp.
• Bristol-Myers Squibb Corp.
• Central Telephone Co.
• Continental Airlines
• Duke Field Energy Services
• El Paso Corp.
• Farmland Industries, Inc.
• General Electric Capital Corp.
• Gibson Greeting Cards Co.

• HCA, Inc.
• Kemper National Insurance Companies
• McLane Co., Inc.
• Marathon Oil Corp.
• National City Bank
• National Grocers Association
• NationsBanc Securities
• Nike, Inc.
• Parker & Parsley Petroleum Corp.
• Pep Boys
• Phillips Petroleum Co.
• Sun Oil Co. (Delaware)
• Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas.

Born: October 16, 1946

Legal Education: University of Texas School of Law (J.D., with honors, 1972).

Prepatory Education: West Texas State University (B.S., with special honors 1969).

Professional Affiliations:

McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, 1973-90.

Johnson & Gibbs, 1990-95.

Kuperman, Orr, Rial & Albers, P. C. - since 1995.

Examples of Litigation Experience:

Administrative: 81 F.3d 578 (5th Cir.1996); 894 S.W.2d 49 (Tex.App.-- Austin 1995).

Antitrust: 818 F.2d 1219 (5th Cir.1987); 615 F.2d 1372 (5th Cir. 1980); 585 S.W.2d 521 (Tex. App.-- Austin 1993).

Class Actions: 319 F.3d 205 (5th Cir. 2003); 110 S.W.3d 67 (Tex. App.--Eastland 2003).

Constitutional: 429 U.S. 990 (1976); 564 F.2d 162 (5th Cir. 1977); 500 F.2d 1307 (5th Cir. 1974).

Copyright: 752 F.2d 145 (5th Cir. 1985).

Energy: 442 U.S. 529 (1979); 768 S.W.2d 318 (Tex. App. -- El Paso 1989); 560 S.W.2d 467 (Tex. App. -- Houston 1997).

ERISA: 105 F.3d 210 (5th Cir. 1997).

Real Estate: 621 S.W.2d 816 (Tex. App. -- Austin 1981).

Will Contest: 521 S.W.2d 845 (Tex. 1975).