ABOUT
Established in 2011
I threw up a shingle in 2011 after interning at the Travis County Attorney's Office while awaiting my bar results. It was a great experience, but it also taught me that the harder and more noble fight was that of a criminal defense attorney. My Uncle Bruce who practices criminal defense in Travis County provided me with an office in his building and the rest is history.
Meet the Business Owner
I am a lawyer. But I am also a husband to my wife Katie Fox, a Father to my son Eli Fox, and a brother to my little sister Hilary Fox. I grew up in Houston, Texas where I attended high school at Lamar before attending University of Texas in Austin. After graduation I worked for my Uncle Bruce Fox in Austin as his paralegal. I used those couple of years for traveling and seeing music around the country. In 2008 I began law school back in Houston at South Texas College of Law. The day after the bar exam I moved back to Austin and now my wife, son and I live in Southwest Austin with our chocolate lab Penny.
Credentials
CERTIFICATIONS
- Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST) Certified
EXPERIENCE
- Travis County Attorney’s Office-Criminal Division, Austin, Texas - Fall Internship, 2011
- Hoover Slovacek L.L.P., Houston, Texas - Summer Clerkship, 2010
- Office of the Texas Attorney General-Child Support Division, Austin, Texas - Summer Clerkship, 2010
- First Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston, Texas - Summer Internship, 2009
- Fourteenth Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston, Texas - Summer Internship, 2009
- Bruce S. Fox, Attorney at Law, Austin, Texas - Paralegal/Legal Assistant, 2002-2008
EDUCATION
- South Texas College of Law
- Juris Doctor, May 2011 - graduated in the top 2%
- The University of Texas at Austin
- Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Psychology, June 2006
- Minor: Government
HONORS
- National Trial Lawyer's Top 40 under 40
- Graduated Summa Cum Laude
- Dean’s Scholar
- Dean’s Honor List
- Order of the Lytae
- Academic Merit Scholarship Recipient
- Lylene Pilkenton Scholarship for Excellence in Academics and Leadership
- John R. Ensle Scholarship for Excellence in Evidence
- CALI Excellence for the Future Award, in Evidence, Federal and Texas Criminal Procedure, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Secured Transactions, Texas Trial & Appellate Procedure, and Family Law
PUBLICATIONS
- South Texas Law Review, Member
- Published Article, Present Danger: Preventing Wrongful Convictions by Resolving Critical Issues Within Texas’s Criminal Justice System
ACTIVITIES
- National Securities Dispute Resolution Tournament, Advocate, Witness
- South Texas Intramural Mediation Tournament, Advocate
- National White Collar Crime Mock Trial Tournament, Witness & Semi-finalist
- Leroy Jeffers Moot Court Tournament, 6th Best Oralist & 4th Best Brief
- Dean Treece’s Summer Trial Academy & Tournament, Advocate & Semi-finalist
- Langdell Scholar, Teaching Criminal Law
- Academic Success Class, Teaching Criminal Law & Exam Skills
- Jewish Law Student’s Association (JLSA), Membership Vice President
- South Texas Texas Exes, Member
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Advocates, Member
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
- Annual Triple Play Softball Tournament supporting Big Brothers Big Sisters & AVDA
- Annual Houston Food Bank Drive
- Annual JLSA Comedy Hour Fundraiser benefiting the Houston Food Bank
- MS150 bicycle ride raising money for Multiple Sclerosis research
- Annual Austin Food Bank Drive
- UT Expunction Project
ASSOCIATIONS
- Member of the State Bar of Texas
- Admitted to Federal Court in the Western District of Texas
- Member of Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer Association
- Member of Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer's Association
- Member of Williamson County Bar Association
- Member of NORML
- Texas Exes Lifetime Member
- Member of Congregation Beth Israel