Law Office of William J. Dyer
Attorney-at-Law ♦ Counselor ♦ Trial Advocate
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Academic record
 
Bachelor of Arts Degree, with High Honors and Special Honors in the Plan II Interdisciplinary Honors Program, University of Texas at Austin (1977).
 

● Degree concentrations in English, history, and computer science.

 

● Completed all degree requirements in 24 months at age 19.

 

● Cactus (UT yearbook) Outstanding Student Award (1979).

 

● Member (1975-1980) and Trumpet Section Leader (1978-1979), University of Texas Longhorn Band.

 

● Member, Kappa Kappa Psi band service fraternity.

 

● Member, Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. 

 

Juris Doctor Degree, with High Honors (top 5%), University of Texas School of Law (1980). 

 

● Member (1978-1980) and Book Review Editor (1979-1980), Texas Law Review.

 

● Member, Order of the Coif (top 10%) and Chancellors (top 16 students) academic honorary societies.

 

● American Jurisprudence Awards (for top individual grade) in Torts, Business Associations, and Advanced Constitutional Law classes.

Graduate and Outstanding Participant Awardee, National Institute of Trial Advocacy, National Session (1985).
Bar admissions
 
Licensed by the State Bar of Texas on November 24, 1980, under Texas Bar No. 06321100.
 
Admitted to practice in —
 
 
● the United States District Courts for the each of the four federal districts (Southern, Northern, Eastern, and Western) of Texas;
 
● the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits; and
 
 

Publications and presentations

 
Note, Community Property Rights and the Business Partnership, 57 Texas L. Rev. 1018 (1979).
 
"The Tactical Use — and Misuse — of Motions to Disqualify," South Texas College of Law's Third Annual Seminar on Advanced Business Litigation, Houston (1989) and Dallas (1990).

"Insurance-Generated Ethical Concerns in Business Litigation," South Texas College of Law's Texas Insurance Law Symposium (Jan. 23, 2009) and "Just Ethics" CLE Luncheon Series (Feb. 13 & Mar. 13, 2009).
 
Although they may look like bandits or terrorists, this is a group of third-year law students from a quarter-century past who were very bright, very hard-working, and way too serious about themselves. I'm the third from the left in the back row, with the slouch and the smirk. (The listed firms are where I and my fellow law review editors began practicing, most of us after judicial clerkships.)