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Mark Curriden is a lawyer/journalist and founder of The Texas Lawbook and legal correspondent for The Houston Chronicle and the Dallas Business Journal. Mark is the author of the best selling book Contempt of Court: A Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism. The book received the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award and numerous other honors.
The Dallas Morning News made Mark its national legal affairs writer in 1996, where he wrote extensively about the tobacco litigation, alleged price-fixing in the pharmaceutical industry, the Exxon Valdez litigation, and more than 25 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. Mark also authored a highly-acclaimed 16-part series on the future of the American jury system. As part of his extensive coverage of the tobacco litigation, Mark unearthed confidential documents and evidence showing that the then Texas Attorney General, Dan Morales, had made a secret deal with a long-time lawyer and friend in which the friend would have profited hundreds of millions of dollars from the tobacco settlement. As a direct result of Mark’s articles, the U.S. Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation, which led to the indictment and conviction of Mr. Morales. You can reach Mark at mark.curriden@texaslawbook.net or 214.232.6783. Session 12:30pm - 1:15pm - Criminal — The Notorious Criminal Case: Handling the Media, the Jury, and the Judge |