Lawyer Profiles
Dick DeGuerin
1018 Preston Avenue
The Republic Building
Seventh Floor
Houston, Texas 77002
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"Texas breeds eccentricity like cattle, so Dick DeGuerin doesn't have much time to sit and reflect on his career. 'I consider myself fortunate to have had such a varied clientele---to be able to look back and know that it's been a hell of a ride,' DeGuerin says. Over several decades, DeGuerin has been attached to criminal cases in Texas that ended up being forums for the nation. He enjoys a reputation for being colorful, and it's not unusual to see him in a Stetson, but he's serious about work--and there's still quite a bit of fight in him. He's tenacious for his clients, but even more so for his belief that American justice demands that every person, without reservation and without discrimination against the crime they're accused of, deserves representation in court."
--Excerpted from Texas Super Lawyers, 2003 - 2008
- Partner
- Criminal Law
- Appellate Law
- Criminal Appeals
- 95% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
- Criminal Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization
- Texas, 1965
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, 1968
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas, 1973
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas, 1979
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas, 1983
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, 1982
- U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan, 1982
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1971
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1974
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 1981
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1982
- U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 1984
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1985
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1971
- The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas,
1965
LL.B.
- University of Texas,
1963
B.A.
- "Border Searches in the Fifth Circuit; Or a Case of Occlusive Trees", Voice for the Defense, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer's Publication, Fall, 1974
- "The Current Status of Border Search in the Fifth Circuit" For the Defense, Harris County Criminal Lawyer's Association Publication, Fall, 1974
- Associate Professor, "Criminal Law", South Texas College of Law,
1969
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1970
- Speaker, "Capital Murder in Texas", San Antonio Criminal Law Institute,
1976
- "Double Jeopardy", San Antonio Criminal Law Institute,
April 1, 1984
- "The War on Crime: A War on the Sixth Amendment", San Antonio Criminal Law Institute,
April 1, 1985
- Texas Super Lawyers, Law & Politics and the Publishers of Texas Monthly,
2003
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2008
- Houston Junior Bar Association,
1965
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1976
- Member, Committee on Law Day
- Houston Junior Bar Association,
1965
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1976
- Member, Committee on Award
- Houston Junior Bar Association,
1965
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1976
- Member, Committee on Criminal Law
- Houston Bar Association
- Member
- State Bar of Texas
- Member
- Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer's Association
- Charter Member
- Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer's Association,
1973
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1976
- Director
- Harris County Criminal Lawyer's Association
- Charter Member
- Harris County Criminal Lawyer's Association,
1976
- Present
- Director
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association
- Member
- Houston Trial Lawyers Association
- Member
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Member
- American Board of Trial Advocates
- American Board of Criminal Lawyers
- California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
- Member
- Harris County, Texas, Assistant District Attorney,
1965
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1968
- Trial Division, Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp, Associate,
1968
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1971
- Foreman & DeGuerin (Percy Foreman and Dick DeGuerin), Associate,
1971
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1982
- Delta Theta Phi
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