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Houston Family Law Lawyer
About Michael David Sydow
Practice Areas
- Family Law
- Intellectual Property
- International Law
Languages
- English
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- French
- Italian
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Texas, 1976
- New York
- New Jersey
- Florida
- Mississippi
- Alabama
- Louisiana
- Michigan
- Wisconsin
- Colorado
- California
- Idaho
- British Columbia
- United States Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
Specialties and Certifications
- Civil Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization
Other Affiliations
- Houston Bar Association’s Judicial Liaison Committee (Chair)
Education
- The University of Texas School of Law,
Austin,
Texas,
1976
J.D. with Honors - Southwestern University,
1973
B.A.
Past Positions
- United States Navy
- Eastham, Watson, Dale & Forney
- Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson, & Hand, Shareholder, 1997 - 2002
- Michael Jackson, Counsel, 2004 - 2006
Pro Bono Activities
- Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
- Fellow, Houston Bar Foundation
Classes and Seminars
- Fourth Annual Southwest Regional Head Injury Symposium: How to Deal Competently with Legally Competent Individuals Who are Incompetent; Trusts, etc.,” Colorado, 1986
- Houston Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Program, “Effective Planning and Use of Discovery Tools,” 1990
- Advanced Civil Litigation, University of Houston Law Center, “Pleadings and Attacks on Pleadings,” 1991
- 10th Annual Advanced Civil Trial Law Conference, South Texas College of Law, “Probing the Edges of Peer Privileges,” 2001
- Advanced Evidence and Discovery Institute, University of Houston Law Foundation, “Damages (Including Actual and Punitive Damages): Evidentiary Requirements and Proof of Techniques,” 1999 and 2001
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Honors
- President’s Award, Houston Bar Association’s Judicial Liaison Committee, 1990 - Present
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Office Information
Address
3355 West Alabama StreetSuite 444Houston, TX 77098
Phone
Offers Free Initial Consultation
Yes
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Publication
Articles
- “Admiralty Jurisdiction Over Injuries to Offshore Workers.” 22 South Texas Law Journal 3, 1982
- “No Duty: An Historical Perspective on the Judicial Creation of a Privileged Class: 12 Trial Lawyers Forum 17, 1988
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