Reynolds Campaign SKIP IS BEST QUALIFIED

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BEST QUALIFIED

SKIP REYNOLDS is truly the very best qualified candidate for the open seat on the bench of the 17th Judicial District Court.

The “BUTTON” and “page” titled “Campaign Biography” tell a little about SKIP'S qualifications; and the “BUTTON” and “page” titled “Experience is Important” give some explanation of why SKIP is uniquely and best qualified to be the next judge of the 17th Judicial District Court.

This “page” is set up to provide much more detailed background. For example, it lists most of the many articles that SKIP has written, and also lists some films that he made in past years as public service projects for use in public schools on topics relating to law and government. Also here you will find a detailed listing of a lot of information about much of SKIP’S other volunteer, unpaid service to the public, the community, to the State Bar of Texas, and to his local bar association and community. There is much more information, too, including information about SKIP'S trial and appellate experience, and pro bono work, and interest in constitutional law, and experience as a college level teacher of US Government and Texas Government [at the Austin and El Paso Community Colleges] before he became a lawyer, and SKIP'S involvement in grassroots Republican politics over many years, and even a little bit about SKIP'S views or perspective on issues such as God, Family and Country.

After you have seen this information you will better understand why no candidate, Republican or Democrat, is as well qualified as SKIP, and why Senator Jane Nelson has stated : “Skip- what an asset you would be to the trial bench. Your lifetime of impressive service makes you highly qualified for this position.”

SKIP’S BAR ADMISSIONS:

Since 1977 SKIP has been a member of the State Bar of Texas. He has been
admitted to practice in and before all Texas trial and appellate courts from November, 1977, to the present. SKIP has also been admitted to practice before various federal courts. He is a member of State Bar of Texas, Tarrant County Bar Association, and Tarrant County Bar Foundation. SKIP is also admitted to practice in various federal courts; but keep in mind that the position of Judge of the 17th Judicial District Court is a position on a Texas State Court.
SKIP was licensed to practice law in 1977, about a decade [or more for some candidates] before any other candidate in the race for the bench of the 17th Court, and SKIP has substantially more practice experience than any other candidate. SKIP held positions of statewide leadership in the State Bar of Texas before any other candidate even held a law license; and in 1984, which was before anyother candidate help a law license, SKIP was awarded the Texas Young Lawyers’ Association President’s Award after SKIP ably led a statewide committee that wrote a book which garnered a national award for Texas from the ABA/YLD. Some years earlier he had received an award from the Texas Bar Foundation for writing an outstanding article entitled Contracts Of Indemnity In Texas that appeared in The Texas Bar Journal, and which was cited by some state and federal courts in their opinions as guiding authority.

SKIP has been a member of the Appellate Section of the Tarrant County Bar Association longer than any other candidate, and SKIP has considerably more trial experience than any other candidate.

SKIP became active in doing bar association committee work at an early point in his career, and after winning the TYLA President’s Award in 1984 for meritorious service to the State Bar, in 1999 SKIP received the President’s Certificate of Outstanding Achievement from the Tarrant County Bar Association. He is a Charter Fellow of the Tarrant County Bar Foundation.

SKIP’S PRACTICE OF LAW:

SKIP has been engaged in the active private trial and appellate practice of law since his licensure in 1977. He has more experience than any other candidate in the Republican primary; and there will not be any Democrat candidate with more experience, either. This is very significant in this judicial election.

More information about SKIP'S unique and varied experience may be found at the “BUTTON” and “page” titled “Experience is Important”, where there is some explanation of why SKIP is uniquely and best qualified to be the next judge of the 17th Judicial District Court. The “page” titled “Campaign Biography” lists information about SKIP'S practice in various areas of law.

NON-LEGAL:

SKIP is a former college-level teacher. He taught freshman level courses in both Texas State Government and United States Government at the Austin Community College and the El Paso Community College prior to, and during, the time when he attended Law School.
SKIP did his Master’s Degree thesis on a constitutional First Amendment topic, and served as the graduate teaching assistant to his school’s Constitutional Law professor when he was a graduate student.

As a college level teacher of United States Government and Texas Government SKIP regularly taught the units on The U. S. Constitution and also on the Texas Constitution. This included instruction on the Bill of Rights, including the First Amendment.
In law school SKIP was editor-in-chief of an internationally circulated law journal that routinely carried scholarly articles and comments on topics dealing with various aspects of the U. S. Constitution.

In his practice SKIP has sometimes dealt with issues of constitutional law, and during the years since he was first licensed to practice law SKIP has written on some constitutional topics and he has also made instructional films on some constitutional topics. As a concerned private citizen and member of The Heritage Foundation SKIP has continued to maintain an avid interest in constitutional issues and constitutional law.

SKIP’S LEGAL EDUCATION:

SKIP is an honors graduate of The University of Texas School of Law [J.D. 1977]

Some Law School Honors and Activities:
· Editor-In-Chief of A J C L [1976-1977][an internationally circulated legal publication]
· Member: Legal Research Board
· Member: Phi Delta Phi [legal academic honors society]

SKIP’S PRE-LEGAL EDUCATION:

School: The University of Texas at El Paso

Degrees: B.A. in Political Science [1972] [Honors][number 4 in class academically]
M.A. in Political Science [1974] [4.0 Average] [thesis track]

Some of SKIP’S College and Graduate School Honors and Activities:
· Thomas I. Cook Outstanding Graduate Student Award
· Graduate Teaching Assistant
· Top Ten Seniors
· Men & Women of Mines
· Chairman: University Forums Committee
· President: Student Union Council
· Member: Student Senate
· Chief Justice: Student Supreme Court
· Vice-Chairman: Publications Board
· Assistant Director: Taft Seminar of Government [SKIP is also a Diplomate of this program]

SOME OF SKIP’S SERVICE ON STATE AND LOCAL BAR COMMITTEES,
AND MEMBERSHIPS, AND COMMUNITY GROUP INVOLVEMENT,
AND POLITICAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES:
· Member: The State Bar of Texas [since 1977, and presently]
· Member: Tarrant County Bar Association
· Past Member: Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Committee [State Bar of Texas : ________________1999-2005]
· Recipient: [Tarrant County Bar Association] President’s Certificate of Outstanding Achievement ____________[June, 1999]
· Member: Texas Girls’ Choir Board of Directors [for many years]
· Chair: Aviation Committee [Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce]
· Member: Board of Directors of Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
· Member: Executive Committee of Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
· Member: Zoning Board of Adjustment [Place 2], City of Colleyville, Texas [2000-2006][now ___________serving fourth term; former vice chair]
· Member: Sign Board, City of Colleyville, Texas [now serving second term]
· Past Member: Board of Directors: Tarrant County Republican Assembly
· Member: Northeast Tarrant County Republican Club [for many years, and presently]
· Past Chair: Nominations Committee: Northeast Tarrant County Republican Club
· Member: The Heritage Foundation: Congress Watchers [former member of President’s Club ____________2000-2001]
· Past Member: Tarrant County Bar Association Judicial Evaluation and Polls Committee [2000 - ________________2003]
· Provider: Mr. Reynolds was placed on the list of Continuing Legal Education Providers for the ___________Court of Appeals, Second District of Texas in 2001 [he provided accredited continuing ___________legal education to the judges and legal staff of this Court : this included preparing a ___________special paper and presenting a special lecture]
· Past Member: Board of Directors of Republican Forum of Tarrant County [2000-2005][and vice ________________president, programs: 2003 and 2004]
· Past Chair: Nominations Committee: Republican Forum of Tarrant County
· Past Member: Finance Commitee of Tarrant County Republican Party
· Member: World Future Society
· Past Member: Defense Research Institute
· Past Member: American Health Lawyers Association
· Past Member: Texas Association of Defense Counsel [former Board Member]
· Registered: Formerly Registered by Texas Department of Insurance as a provider of continuing ______________education courses for agents, and adjusters, licensed under applicable articles of ------------the Texas Insurance Code [Provider No. 2136]
· Chairman: Sub-Committee on Sealing of Records in Trade Secret Litigation [a subcommittee of -----------State Bar of Texas Court Rules Committee] [1997-1999]
· Chairman: Continuing Legal Education Planning for 1999 Convention of The State Bar of Texas -----------[1998-1999]
· Member: Annual Meeting Committee to plan 1999 Annual Meeting and convention of The State ----------Bar of Texas [1998-1999]
· Co-Chairman: TCBA Law and Technology/Web Page Committee, Tarrant County Bar Association --------------[1998-1999]
· Member: Board of Directors of Texas Association of Defense Counsel [1994-1996]
· Chairman: Texas Association of Defense Counsel TRIAL ACADEMY [1994]
· Course Director: THE ULTIMATE TRIAL NOTEBOOK: MASTERS OF TRIAL [1993] [sponsored by ----------------the State Bar of Texas]
· Chairman: Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Tarrant County Bar Association
· Co-Chairman: Special Committee to Plan Continuing Legal Education events for 1993 ----------------------Convention of The State Bar of Texas
· Member: Fee Arbitration Committee [Tarrant County Bar Association]
· Member: Punitive Damages Legislative Team [TADC: 1993-1994]
· Faculty Member: Texas Association of Defense Counsel TRIAL ACADEMY [1993]
· Judge: 1993 National Bicentennial Competition [Texas State Meet]
· Past-President: Tarrant County Civil Trial Lawyers Association [past vice-president; past --------------------member of board of directors]
· Past Member: Continuing Legal Education Committee [State Bar of Texas; frequently served on --------------planning committees for seminars, often writing and lecturing] [vice-chairman ----------------1993-1995]
· Past Chairman: Joint-Ventures subcommittee [a subcommittee of the Continuing Legal ----------------------Education Committee]
· Past Member: Committee on Court Rules [State Bar of Texas; this is the successor to the --------------------Administration of Justice Committee]
· Past Chairman: Subcommittee on Bifurcation of Trial [a subcommittee of the Committee on -------------------Court Rules]
· Judge: 1992 National Bicentennial Competition [Texas State Meet]
· Past Member: Administration of Rules of Evidence Committee [State Bar of Texas; this is the ----------------committee having oversight responsibilities for the Texas Rules of Evidence]
· Past Member: Administration of Justice Committee [State Bar of Texas; this Committee (C.O.A.J.) --------------was to concern itself with review and revision of procedural rules and statutes in --------------Texas]
· Past Chairman: Bifurcated Trial Subcommittee [a subcommittee of C.O.A.J.]
· Past Member: Citizens and Law Focused Education Committee [State Bar of Texas]
· Chairman: Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Texas Association of Defense Counsel -----------[1987-1988]
· Course Director: PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY -- A PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT COURSE [1986] ----------------[sponsored by the State Bar of Texas]
· Member: Task Force on Practice Skills [1987] [State Bar of Texas]
· Recipient: TYLA President’s Award [Texas Young Lawyers Association; 1983-1984] [for service -----------to bar and public]
· Past Member: Delivery of Legal Services to the Poor Committee [TYLA]
· Co-Chairman: Law Focused Education Committee [TYLA; 1983-86]
· Co-Chairman: Sesquicentennial Committee [TYLA; 1984-86]
· Previously Listed: Outstanding Young Men of America
· Previously Listed: Who’s Who in Texas
· Listed: Who’s Who in the World [Marquis: 2000 - ____]
· Listed: Who’s Who in America [Marquis 2001 - ____]
· Listed: Who’s Who In Finance and Industry [Marquis 2002 -__]
· Member: The Fort Worth Club
· Member: World Affairs Council of Dallas~Fort Worth
· Charter Fellow: The Tarrant County Bar Foundation

SOME OF SKIP’S LEGAL PUBLICATIONS / ACCREDITED COURSE MATERIALS /
PRESENTATIONS / BOOKS & FILMS ON LEGAL TOPICS:

· Consultant for Matthew-Bender & Company in connection with initial preparation and initial publication of TEXAS TORTS AND REMEDIES treatise [and, separately, a contributing author : see Chapter 10]

· General Principles of Professional Liability, Vol. I TEXAS TORTS AND REMEDIES [Matthew-Bender & Company] [appearing therein as Chapter 10]

· Consultant: MEDICAL PHYSICISTS AND MALPRACTICE [Medical Physics Publishing 1996][consultant to the authors of this book prior to publication]

· Article: Dealing With Confidential and Proprietary Information [Co-Authors:
Kim Askew, J.D., Chris Griesel, J.D., Paul J. Van Osselaer, J.D.] [a seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book 16TH ANNUAL ADVANCED EVIDENCE AND DISCOVERY COURSE: 2003][SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ presentation available for video distribution]

· Article: Proving Nursing Home Liability [Co-Author: Roy Alan Camberg, J.D.] [a seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book ADVANCED EXPERT WITNESS COURSE III: 2002][SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ presentation available for video distribution]

· Article: Bill of Exceptions and Offers [Co-Authors: Paul Speaker, J.D. and Kim Askew, J.D.] [a seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book 14TH ANNUAL ADVANCED EVIDENCE AND DISCOVERY COURSE: 2001][SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ presentation available for video distribution]

· Article: Protecting the Client by Protecting the Record: A Discussion of Texas Law and Practice Regarding Bills of Exception and Offers of Proof [a seminar paper which appeared in the course book for the 2001 TADC Spring Meeting program] [Mr. Reynolds presented this topic as part of the program on April 6, 2001, to a TADC audience in Las Vegas, Nevada].

· Paper: Bills of Exception and Offers of Proof: A Review of Texas Law and Practice [research assistant: Paul Speaker, J.D.] [a paper prepared for a C.L.E. presentation on April 19, 2001, to justices, staff and law clerks of the Honorable Court of Appeals for the Second District of Texas] [Mr. Reynolds has been included by invitation on the Court’s list of Continuing Legal Education Providers]

· Training Session: Presented to Haag Engineering at Dallas, Texas, for professional, engineering and technical personnel. [Topic: The Trial of a Negligence Lawsuit] [February 9, 2001]

· Training Lecture: Presented at State Farm University Program in Arlington, Texas, for legal, professional and adjuster personnel of State Farm Insurance. [Topic: The Trial of a Negligence Lawsuit] [February 13, 2001]

· Accredited Course: Insurance Fraud: Arson [author; and approved Provider No. 2136 for Course No. 32748CF010 (for Property and Casualty Agents) and Course No. 32748CA010 (for Insurance Adjusters-All Types)
by The Texas Department of Insurance; this is not now an active course]

· Accredited Course: The Trial of a Negligence Lawsuit [author; and approved provider No. 2136 for Course No. 32004CA010 accredited (1.0 credit hours) by The Texas Department of Insurance; this is not now an active course]

· Accredited Course: Nursing Home Claims: A "Primer" for Adjusters on Texas Law [author; and approved Provider No. 2136 for Course No. 29578CA010 accredited (1.0 credit hours) by The Texas Department of Insurance; this is not now an active course]

· Accredited Course: Principles of Professional Liability: A Short Primer for Insurance Claims Professionals [author; and approved provider no. 2136 for course no. 27064CA010, accredited (1.0 credit hours) by The Texas Department of Insurance; this is not now an active course]

· Article: Nursing Home Liability: The Texas Perspective [a seminar paper appearing in the course book for the 2000 TADC Spring Meeting program] [Mr. Reynolds presented this topic as part of the program to a TADC audience in San Diego, California].

· Outline: Experts, Attorneys, and the Resolution of Energy Industry Disputes [an outline prepared for and distributed to an audience on February 15, 2000, in conjunction with a lecture presentation to attendees at THE 2000 NORTH TEXAS ENERGY COUNCIL SYMPOSIUM]

· Outline: What Adjusters Need to Know About Nursing Home Law [a handout prepared for and distributed to an audience on November 16, 1999, in conjunction with a lecture presentation to the Fort Worth Claims Association]

· Panelist: Fiduciary Duty and Third Party Reliance Panel [a panel discussion presented as a portion of the SBOT seminar program: 13TH ANNUAL ADVANCED EVIDENCE AND DISCOVERY COURSE: 2000] [SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ seminar presentation available for video distribution]

· Speaker: Key Differences Between State and Federal Discovery Rules [written materials by P. Alvarez and M. Montemayor] [Program: SBOT 13TH ANNUAL ADVANCED EVIDENCE AND DISCOVERY COURSE: 2000] [SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ seminar presentation available for video distribution]

· Speaker: Court’s Charge [written materials by J. Storey][Program: SBOT 22ND ANNUAL ADVANCED CIVIL TRIAL COURSE: 1999]

· Outline: Mediation and Arbitration: A Comparative Review of Two Widely Used Methods of Dispute Resolution [an outline prepared for distribution, and distributed on August 12, 1999, in conjunction with a lecture presentation at a national annual meeting seminar program for PRIMECO Human Resources professionals]

· Article: Nursing Home Liability [a SBOT seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book ADVANCED PERSONAL INJURY LAW COURSE: 1999] [SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ seminar presentation available for video distribution]

· Presenter: Mediation Solutions for Insurance Claims in Dispute [a course presented to an audience of members of the Fort Worth Claims Association on June 9, 1999, on the campus of Texas Christian University, with mediator Bill Low]

· Video Presentation: Overlooked Discovery Rules [this presentation was made in May, 1999, to audiences in Dallas and San Antonio attending the SBOT seminar program: SPECIAL EDITION ADVANCED EVIDENCE & DISCOVERY COURSE: THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS -- A REPORT FROM THE FRONT LINES ON THE NEW RULES OF DISCOVERY]

· Article: Discovery: Overlooked and Forgotten Rules -- Traps for the Unwary [a re-write, with C. Baker, A. Regan-Loyd and D. Beck, of an article first written by Dan Price in 1993; this re-write appeared as a SBOT seminar paper in the Professional Development Program book 11TH ANNUAL ADVANCED EVIDENCE AND DISCOVERY COURSE: 1998][SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ seminar presentation available for video distribution]

· Panelist: LEGAL ETHICS AND MEDICAL ISSUES [a panel discussion program presented to an audience on October 15, 1998, as a portion of the Continuing Legal Education programming presented at the Annual Convention of the National Federation of Paralegal Associations

· Editorial Update: Discovery: Overlooked and Forgotten Rules -- Traps for the Unwary [a SBOT seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book 10TH ANNUAL ADVANCED EVIDENCE AND DISCOVERY COURSE: 1997] [SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ seminar presentation available for video distribution]

· Outline: Nursing Home Law [an outline prepared for and distributed to an audience on March 6, 1997, in conjunction with a lecture presentation at a meeting of the Tarrant County Probate Bar Association]

· Editorial Update: Discovery: Overlooked and Forgotten Rules -- Traps for the Unwary [a SBOT seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book 9TH ANNUAL ADVANCED EVIDENCE AND DISCOVERY COURSE: 1996] [SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ seminar presentation available for video distribution]

· Article: The Nursing Home: “Wrongful Discharge,” Abuse and Liability Issues [a SBOT seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book ELDER LAW: 1996] [SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ seminar presentation available for video distribution]

· Speaker: Legal Malpractice Update [written materials by B. Spivey and R. Barrett] [program: SBOT 12TH ANNUAL ADVANCED PERSONAL INJURY COURSE: 1996]

· Speaker: Professional Liability for the PI Lawyer, the Sword and the Shield [written materials by R. Barrett] [program: SBOT 11TH ANNUAL ADVANCED PERSONAL INJURY COURSE: 1995]

· Article: Hospital and Nursing Home Liability [a SBOT seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book ADVANCED PERSONAL INJURY LAW COURSe: 1993]

· TRIAL PROBLEM MATERIALS FOR 1994 TADC TRIAL ACADEMY [a notebook approximately 200 pages in length prepared for and used at the 1994 TADC Trial Academy]

· Editorial Update: Discovery: Overlooked and Forgotten Rules -- Traps for the Unwary [a SBOT seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book 7TH ANNUAL ADVANCED EVIDENCE AND DISCOVERY COURSE: 1994] [SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ seminar presentation available for video distribution]

· Editorial Update: Common Discovery Problems -- Workshop [a SBOT seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book 7TH ANNUAL ADVANCED EVIDENCE AND DISCOVERY COURSE: 1994] [SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ seminar presentation available for video distribution]

· Article: Texas Lawmakers Protect Retailers Sued in Products Liability Cases, 9 THE COUNSELOR [No. 4 -- Fall 1993]

· Paper: Legislature Defines Indemnity Rights For Innocent Sellers [presented December 7, 1993, to a meeting of the Tarrant County Bar]

· Outline: The Selection and Use of Medical Care Experts [a handout prepared for and distributed to an audience on June 18, 1993, in conjunction with a lecture presentation at the annual meeting of the State Bar of Texas]

· Article: Privity Defenses in Malpractice Claims -- Still Viable? [a SBOT seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book ANTICIPATING AND AVOIDING LEGAL MALPRACTICE CLAIMS: 1993] [SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ seminar presentation available for video distribution]

· Article: Nursing Homes: Some Comments About Potential Tort Liability and About OBRA [a SBOT seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book ELDER LAW INSTITUTE: 1992][SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ seminar presentation available for video distribution]

· Article: Planning the Defendant’s Discovery Strategy [a SBOT seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book THE ULTIMATE PRE-TRIAL NOTEBOOK: 1992]

· Paper: Legal Malpractice and You: The Paralegal’s Perspective on the Problem [presented February 28, 1992, to a meeting of the Fort Worth Paralegal Association]

· Article: Lawyer Liability in the Handling of Insurance Claims -- Defendant’s Perspective [a SBOT seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book SUING, DEFENDING AND NEGOTIATING WITH INSURANCE COMPANIES: 1991] [SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ seminar presentation available for video distribution]

· Article: The Bifurcation Proposal: A Status Report, 8 TEXAS EVIDENCE REPORTER 1 [1991]

· Paper: Trial by Jury and the Paralegal: Discovery [presented May 18, 1991, at the Annual DALA/FWPA Joint Seminar, and printed in the seminar course book]

· Paper: Legal Malpractice -- Defenses [presented April 5, 1991, at TCCTLA seminar, and printed in the seminar course book] [an updated and revised version of the 1990 article of same title]

· Article: Legal Malpractice -- Defenses [a SBOT seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book THE LAWYER AS TARGET -- EMERGING THEORIES OF LIABILITY AND METHODS OF PREVENTION: A PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT COURSE: 1990]

· Article: Presenting Expert Testimony at Trial, 36 THE T.A.L.S. DOCKET 3 [1989]

· Article: Selection and Use of the Defense Expert [a SBOT seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book UTILIZING EXPERTS IN LITIGATION: A PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT COURSE: 1989] [an updated and revised version of the 1987 article of same title]

· Article: Selection and Use of the Defense Expert [a SBOT seminar paper appearing in the Professional Development Program book EXPERTS IN LITIGATION: A PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT COURSE: 1987] [SBOT also made Mr. Reynolds’ seminar presentation available for video distribution]

· Article: A Look at the Tort Reform Issue, Vol. 10 PROFESSIONAL MUTUAL MONITOR, No. 1, p. 8 [Summer 1987]

· Paper: Tort Reform [presented 15 October 1986 to a Risk Management Seminar of the I.A.D.C.]

· Paper: Some Evidentiary Considerations Regarding Professional Liability Litigation [presented at Texas Association of Defense Counsel Spring Seminar, May 1, 1986, and printed in the seminar course book]

· Article: Creating Your Lawsuit: Organization from Inception to Trial [presented in several cities in Fall 1985, as a paper for a State Bar of Texas seminar; also, available in the printed SBOT/PDP seminar course book; also, Mr. Reynolds’ seminar presentation was made available in audio tape form from the Texas Tapes Series]

· Article: The Role of the Paralegal in Litigation, 31 THE T.A.L.S. DOCKET 6 [September 1985]

· Article: Some Comments About Developments in Evidence Law Likely to Have Significant Impact on Tort Litigation in Texas State Courts, 1 TEXAS EVIDENCE REPORTER 58 [November 1984]

· Workshop Presenter: Leon Jaworski Memorial Conference: ORDER AND LAW IN THE SCHOOLS [1984] [topic dealing generally with guidance for attorneys requested to visit and serve as resource persons for public schools]

· Article: Significant Developments: Tort Litigation in Texas, 47 TEX. B.J. 430 [1984]

· Article: Computerized Information Management in Litigation: Some Comments, T.A.D.C. MAGAZINE [January 1984]

· Article: Managing the Defense of a Multi-Defendant Case, 29 THE PRACTICAL LAWYER 81 [June 1983] [reprinted in 1986 as a chapter in THE PRACTICAL LAWYER’S MANUAL ON PRE-TRIAL PREPARATION NO. 2]

· Article: Contracts of Indemnity in Texas, 43 TEX. B.J. 297 [1980] [This article received recognition from the Texas Bar Foundation.] [cited as authority in cases from The Supreme Court of Texas and the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals]

· Article: Changing Times -- A Look at the Interspousal Tort Immunity Doctrine in Texas After Bounds v. Caudle, 41 TEX. B.J. 153 [1978]

SOME OF SKIP’S PUBLIC SERVICE PROJECTS:

· Public school classroom presentation: What Lawyers Do – A Fourth Grade Presentation [first put together in Spring, 1989]

· Book: OF COUNSEL TO CLASSROOMS [SBOT/TYLA 2nd ed.; 1986] [associate editor and contributing author]

· Book: OF COUNSEL TO CLASSROOMS [SBOT/TYLA May, 1984] [general editor and contributing author] [this book project earned a special national recognition award for Texas~TYLA from ABA/YLD] [it was for his work on this project that SKIP received the TYLA President’s Award in 1984]

· Film: BUDGETING: HOW THE STATE OF TEXAS MAKES A BUDGET [SBOT/TYLA 1986]

· Film: THE TEXAS BILL OF RIGHTS [SBOT/TYLA 1983]

· Film: THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION [SBOT/TYLA 1982]

NOTE: SKIP REYNOLDS chaired the TYLA committees that wrote and produced these books, and made these films, and SKIP also participated actively in the processes of researching and writing the book materials, and the film script materials, and producing the films. These books and films, upon completion, were made available by SBOT/TYLA free of charge to the T.E.A. for use in Texas schools, and were made available by SBOT/TYLA free of charge for general public use.

SKIP’S EXTENSIVE TRIAL AND APPELLATE EXPERIENCE :

SKIP has more real trial experience than any other candidate, and he also has extensive experience appellate experience. SKIP was trained by senior and very skilled trial attorneys, some of whom had served as presidents of the Texas Association of Defense Counsel [the civil defense attorneys’ group in Texas], and at a very early point in his career SKIP assumed full duties as a first-chair trial attorney. He became know years ago as a highly competent civil litigator, and in the early nineteen nineties he was tapped by the Texas Association of Defense Counsel to chair and run its Trial Academy, which was the program for training the very most promising young litigators from all over the state so that they could hone and improve their litigation skills. SKIP took on that task, and did it well. Some few years back, SKIP also helped to train three younger lawyers who are now candidates in the 2008 Republican Primary. None of them are caliming to be better qualified than SKIP, and in fact there is not a better qualified candidate [Republican or Democrat] than SKIP REYNOLDS. He has ried cases of many types in many places around the state. For example, SKIP is the only candidate who has tried to verdict, and won, medical cases in which he defended hospitals and defended doctors. He has also tried and won cases of other types, too.

SKIP has also handled many appeals during his years of law practice, and has been a member of the Appellate section of the Tarrant County Bar Association for many years, and longer than any other candidate. Like his trial record, SKIP'S record of appellate experience is real first-chair experience. One of his cases, which was decided by The Supreme Court of Texas in the mid nineteen-nineties, was a case in which SKIP got that high court to uphold the peer review statute that apples to all hospitals. At least one of the other attorneys in the present race for the 17th Court got early appellate training from SKIP.

SKIP is the only candidate who has provided accredited continuing legal education training to the Justices and legal staff of the Fort Worth Court of Appeals. When the Chief Justice of that Court invited SKIP to do so, SKIP accepted the invitation and wrote a legal paper and presented it to the Justices and legal staff of the Fort Worth Court of Appeals to help them to meet their requirement for accredited continuing legal education.

SKIP’S INTEREST IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW :

SKIP did his Master’s Degree thesis on a constitutional First Amendment topic, and served as the graduate teaching assistant to his school’s Constitutional Law professor when he was a graduate student.

In his practice SKIP has sometimes dealt with issues of constitutional law, and during the yeaand member of The Heritage Foundation SKIP has continued to maintain an avid interest in constitutional issues and constitutional law.

SKIP’S PRO BONO WORK :

Through the many years of his law practice SKIP has always made time to do some pro bono work along the way. He has done this quietly, but also he has done this consistently. Sometimes he has provided free legal work for individuals, and sometimes for groups. He has provided free legal work for some public officials in connection with matters of interest to the community. One single example of SKIP'S pro bono work is his legal work through many years for the Texas Girls Choir [he is also a longtime member of the board of directors of that choir]. SKIP has provided free legal services to the choir on a number of occasions through the past years, and he is the attorney who represented the interests of the choir in negotiating, and then drafting and finalizing, the current long term lease of the grounds where the choir has its camp on Lake Worth. Thousands of girls and members of their families have enjoyed that camp since the present lease was put in place.

SKIP REYNOLDS : GRASS ROOTS REPUBLICAN OVER MANY YEARS :

SKIP is a real “grassroots” Reagan type Republican, and he has been quietly and consistently active at the grassroots level in Tarrant County Republican politics since the nineteen-eighties. Perhaps that is why longtime real Republicans like Bob Stewart (the longtime leader of the Northeast Republican Club, which is SKIP'S home club) have rallied to support SKIP REYNOLDS in this present campaign for the Republican nomination for the bench of the 17th Judicial District Court.

SKIP has been consistently active in Tarrant County Republican politics since the
nineteen-eighties. He has been a member of the Northeast Republican Club and also has chaired its nominations committee. SKIP has been a member of the Republican Forum of Tarrant County, and has chaired its nominations committee, and served on its board of directors, and has also been one of its officers. Also, SKIP has been a member of the Tarrant County Republican Assembly, and he has served on its board, and attended two of its Texas state conventions.
Over the years SKIP has often worked on campaigns, and supported candidates and Republican groups and causes.

No other candidate has nearly so much real involvement in Republican political activity here in Tarrant County!

SKIP is a real Reagan Republican.

GOD, FAMILY AND COUNTRY :

SKIP REYNOLDS was raised in faith, believing in God; and he still does, and always will.
SKIP has been married once. He and his wife, the former Barbara Lovas, were married in El Paso in the church where her family attended services. They wed in December of 1973, and after a few years they were blessed with children (all girls). Now their daughters are grown, educated, and married, so SKIP and BARBARA live together with no human children in their home, but they do have some pets that seem to think of themselves as “children”. SKIP and BARBARA believe that families are the backbone of society, and that marriage is a sacred institution.
SKIP is thankful to be an American, and a Texan.

SIXTH GENERATION TEXAN :

SKIP is a sixth generation Texan. In 1835 his great, great, great grandfather, C. W. Hemphill, loaded the family and its possessions onto a sailing ship in South Carolina and came to Texas, landing at the port of Galveston en route to a final destination at the Ben Milam empressario colony at Mina (now Bastrop, near Austin). Along the trail, C. W. died, but he had seen the “promised land” that would be home to his family for many years, and the family perservered and made its way to Mina. Many years later, in 1881, SKIP'S great granfather, W. T. Hemphill, and some of his cousins, came to Abilene as a part of the group who were the founding pioneers of that town. W. T. Had a daughter, Sallie, who married SKIP'S grandfather, Mr. Reynolds, who was the eldest son of an early day Texas pioneer pastor.

One of the early day members of SKIP'S grandmother’s family may be known to you from your study of Texas history : JOHN HEMPHILL was the last Chief Justice of Texas while it was still an independent nation, and he then became the first Chief Justice of the State of Texas. From that post he was sent by Texas to Washington, D. C. to serve as a United States Senator, and followed Sam Houston into that position and so he served in the same senate seat now held by John Cornyn (who SKIP has known and supported for many years).
SKIP is dedicated to Texas and all of her people.

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