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What is Board Certification?

Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law

Board Certification is a voluntary designation program for attorneys and paralegals. Initial certification is valid for a period of five years. To remain certified, an attorney and paralegal must apply for recertification every five years and meet substantial involvement, peer review and continuing legal education requirements for the specialty area.

General requirements for Board Certification in Personal Injury Trial Law:
- All Personal Injury Trial Law Board Certified attorneys must have:
- Been licensed to practice law for at least 5 years
- Practiced personal injury trial law for at least 3 years
- Devoted a minimum of 25% of their law practice to personal injury trial law
- Handled a wide variety of personal injury trial law matters to demonstrate experience and involvement.
- Attended personal injury trial law continuing legal education seminars regularly to keep their legal training up to date
- Been evaluated by fellow lawyers and judges
- Passed a 6- hour written examination

Craig Depew

• Extensive experience handling Maritime injury and damage cases
•  Former oil and gas landman with experience handling oil and gas disputes
• Extensive experience handling complex industrial injury cases
• Served in several capacities within the drilling industry, including roughneck, motorman, derrick man, and relief drilling
• Extensive experience handling Aviation cases
• Instrument rated commercial pilot who has flown professionally
• Admitted to Texas State Bar, 1988
• Admitted to practice in all courts in Texas, The US Supreme Court, US Court of Appeals of the Fifth Circuit, and the Federal District Courts for the Northern, Southern and Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
• Earned B.B.A. degree, Petroleum Land Management, University of Texas at Austin, 1983
• Earned JD from University of Houston, 1988
• At University of Houston:
• Editor, Recent Developments and Book Review
• Author, Houston Journal of International Law: "Sidestepping Foreign Bank Secrecy Laws," 10 Hou. J. Intl. L. 57, 1987
• Member:
• Houston and American Bar Associations
• State Bar of Texas
• Trial Lawyers of Texas
• Trial Lawyers of America
• Maritime Law Association of the United States
• Forty-nine year Houston area resident

In the News

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