J. Brett Harrison - Tyler, TX

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas, 1995
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, 1992
    B.A.

Current Employment Position(s)

• Shareholder

Past Positions

• First Assistant Criminal District Attorney, Smith County District Attorney's Office, 2004 - 2005
• Smith County, Assistant Criminal District Attorney, 1996 - 2004

Classes and Seminars

• Speaker, The Confrontation Clause," Texas Criminal Defense Association's Downtown Bill of Rights Review - Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments, Fort Worth, September 6, 2007 - September 7, 2007
  
• Instructor, "Courtroom Demeanor/Report Writing", Tyler Junior College Police Academy, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
  
• "Crawford and the Confrontation Clause Update", Smith County Bar Association, 2008, 2009, 2010
  
• "Obtaining the Release of Adults and Juvenile", Smith County Bar Association, 2006
  
• "Top Ten Traps Every Pre-teen Should Know To Avoid", All Saints Episcopal School, 2012 - Present
  
• "Top Ten Traps Every Pre-teen Should Know to Avoid", Tyler Area Association of Legal Professionals, 2012 - Present
  
• Advanced Criminal Law Course , State Bar of Texas, 2007 - 2014
  
• Multi-Track Federal Criminal Defense Seminar and Fundamentals of Federal Criminal Defense

Published Works

Articles

• Inside Deanna Laney's Capital Murder Trial, The Texas Prosecutor
  
• Strategies for Defending DWI Cases in Texas, Aspatore Books, a Thomson Reuters business, 2009
  
• The Current State of Confrontation, College Bar Bulletin, State Bar of Texas, Spring, 2011
  
• Strategies for Defending DWI Cases in Texas, EWI Myths and Reality,Aspatore , 2008
  
• Inside the Minds: Defending DWI Vehicular Homicide Cases, 2014
  

Bar Admissions

• Texas
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court

Specialties and Certifications

• Criminal Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 2005
• Criminal Trial Advocacy, National Board of Trial Advocacy, 2006

Other Affiliations

• State Bar of Texas
• Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
• Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers' Association
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• College of the State Bar
• Texas Board of Legal Specialization Criminal Law Exam Commission, 2007 - 2009
• National Board of Trial Advocacy Exam Commission, 2007 - 2008
• Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow
• Smith County Bar Association
• Smith County Bar Foundation
• Grievance Committee, District 2 (Chair)
• DWI College