Top Rated Schools & Education Attorney in Lufkin, TX

Honors/Awards:

• Texas Top-Notch Lawyers (One of Five Lawyers so Honored in Texas) featured in the Go-To Guide, The Texas Lawyer, October, 2002

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Texas School Administrator’s Legal Digest Editorial Advisory Board Member, January 2013 through December, 2015. 
• State Bar of Texas, School Law Section Member, State Chair 2005-2006, and Director 1999-2006
• Sustaining Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
• Council of School Attorneys of the Texas Association of School Boards, Chairman and Executive Committee Member, 1992-1996
• Texas Association of Community College Attorneys, Founding Director and Past President, 2005-2009
• College of the State Bar, Member
• National School Board Association Council of School Attorneys, Member
• Past President, Angelina County Bar Association, 1995-1996

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Lone Star Legal Aid named Lufkin's Haglund Law Firm the 2014 Firm of the Year for the firm's long-standing commitment to pro bono representation through Lone Star Legal Aid, which covers 72 counties and 60,000 square miles, or 1/3 of the State of Texas and is the fourth largest free legal aid provider in the United States.   http://lufkindailynews.com/business/article_36ae21a8-8892-11e4-8668-b78ec99df418.html, 2014

Scholarly Lectures/Writings:

• I have been privileged to participate with five other lawyers selected by the Texas Association of School Boards to undertake the writing of a set of modifications to the American Institute of Architects construction contracts. This work has gone on for more than nine (9) years now, includes rewriting modifications each time the AIA forms are revised, and has involved some of the most experienced construction lawyers in Texas. The contract documents are being marketed to over a thousand school district by the Texas Association of School Boards. The Texas Association of School Boards has licensed these contract documents to the National School Board Associaiton for distribution to school districts nationwide. I have been advised that in the first year the contract documents were available they became the fastest selling documents available through the National School Board Association. ● Article, Navigating the Unchartered Waters of Procurement of Construction Contracts, Texas School Administrators' Legal Digest, published in the September, 2013 issue ● Article, Building a Better Contract, American School Board Journal, Volume 198, No. 10 (October, 2011) (one of a group of 6 attorneys who co-wrote article). ● Co-author of TASB School District Construction Contract Documents Modifying American Institute of Architects Contract Forms for Public Schools, published by Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) and National Schools Boards Association (NSBA) (2004 - present). ● Article, One Nation Under God: New Cases Involving Religion on Campus, Texas School Administrators' Legal Digest, published in the September, 2005 issue. ● Article, Guidelines for School Employees Concerning Religion on Campus, Texas School Administrators' Legal Digest, Vol. 17, No. 3 (March 2001). ● Article, Conducting an Effective On-Campus Investigation of Employee Wrongdoing, Texas School Administrators' Legal Digest, Vol. 9, No. 5 (May 1993).
• Publications: ● Article, Navigating the Unchartered Waters of Procurement of Construction Contracts, Texas School Administrators' Legal Digest, published in the September, 2013 issue ● Article, Building a Better Construction Contract, American School Board Journal, Volume 198, No. 10 (October, 2011) (one of a group of 6 attorneys who co-wrote article) ● Co-author of TASB School District Construction Contract Documents Modifying American Institute of Architects Contract Forms for Public Schools, published by Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) and National Schools Boards Association (NSBA) (2004 - present) ● Article, One Nation Under God: New Cases Involving Religion on Campus, Texas School Administrators' Legal Digest, published in the September, 2005 issue ● Article, Guidelines for School Employees Concerning Religion on Campus, Texas School Administrators' Legal Digest, Vol. 17, No. 3 (March 2001) ● Article, Conducting an Effective On-Campus Investigation of Employee Wrongdoing, Texas School Administrators' Legal Digest, Vol. 9, No. 5 (May 1993)

Representative Clients:

• Alto Independent School District ● Angelina College● Apple Springs Independent School District● Big Sandy Independent School District● Broaddus Independent School District● Center Independent School District● Central Independent School District● Chester Independent School District● Coldspring-Oakhurst Consolidated Independent School District● Etoile Independent School District● Joaquin Independent School District● Laneville Independent School District● Leggett Independent School District● Lufkin Independent School District ● Nacogdoches Independent School District● Newton Independent School District● Onalaska Independent School District● Panola Charter School ● Redwater Independent School District● Rusk Independent School District● San Augustine Independent School District● Woodville Independent School District ● Angelina Community Theater● Burke Center, Lufkin, Texas, formerly known as Deep East Texas Regional Mental Health Mental Retardation Services (Community Center which serves 12 counties in Deep East Texas)● City of Zavalla● Louisiana Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church● Lufkin Daily News● Mt. Enterprise Water Supply Corporation● Southwood Drive Animal Clinic ● Spherion, Lufkin ● Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church  

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Educational Background:

• University of Texas, Austin, B.A., 1974