 TONY ANINAO BAR MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Solo Law Practice, February 1988 to present, general law practice in state and federal District Courts in Harris and surrounding counties. Handled criminal appeals and trials, family law, civil practice (personal injury, collections), and some probate work. Extensive jury trial experience, and appellate briefs filed in Texas Courts of Appeals, and Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and U. S. Supreme Court. Associate Counsel, Law Offices of M. Gabriel Nahas, Jr., September 1983 to February 1988. Handled primarily criminal and some family law litigation in Harris, Montgomery, Galveston, Brazoria and surrounding counties before jury and bench. National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Houston, Texas, October 1981 to January 1982. Consultant, editor, and writer prior to Texas Bar Admission. Staff Attorney, Roxbury Defenders Committee, Boston, Massachusetts, October 1979 to July 1981. Represented 230 clients in 21 month period in felony prosecutions involving armed robbery, rape, attempted murder, drugs and weapons offenses in Roxbury District Court and Massachusetts Superior Court, Suffolk County from appointment to appeal. Appeared before Massachusetts Appeals Court and single justice session of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Legal Intern, Massachusetts Defenders Committee, Boston, Massachusetts, summer 1978. Represented 62 clients in misdemeanor and some felony cases under supervision in the Boston Municipal Court for non-jury trial or other hearing. Legal Intern, Massachusetts Department of Correction, Boston, Massachusetts, summer 1977. Duties included legal research and writing, drafting discovery, memoranda and departmental regulations; investigation for prisoners' rights litigation and civil commitment hearings at Bridgewater State Hospital. Docket Clerk, Public Defender Division, Legal Aid Society,
Cincinnati, Ohio, August 1975 to September 1976. Responsible for opening and closing of
case files, docket control, office intake interviews, and criminal litigation support. EDUCATION Boston College Law School, Newton, Massachusetts, J. D. May 1979. Asian-American Law Students Association, 1976-1979. National Mock Trial Competition Semi-Finalist, 1979. Director of Audio-Visual Services, 1977-1978). Award for Distinguished Service to Boston College Law School, 1979. Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. A.B. May 1975. Phi
Beta Kappa (Beta Chapter of Ohio). Summa cum laude with High Honors. Major: Philosophy.
Merit List, 1971-1975. Chairman of the Kenyon Symposium, a student lectureships group.
Virgil Aldrich Prize in Philosophy, 1975. Final Class Rank: 16 / 288. Present address: Friendswood, Texas. Born 1953; married to the same woman since 1981 and blessed with two wonderful sons and daddy's big little princess.
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