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Michelle Simpson Tuegel

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Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 13 years of experience

Personal Injury

3301 Elm St., Dallas, TX 75226

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About Michelle Simpson Tuegel

Practice Areas

Personal Injury

Education

Baylor University School of Law, Waco, Texas, 2010
J.D.
- Major: Criminal Practice
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, 2006
B.A.
- Major: English
- Honors: magna cum laude

Classes and Seminars

Waco Legal Professionals Association, Speaker, - 2013
Municipal Court Clerk Certification Program in Waco, Speaker, - 2014
Rural Court Administrators Conference, "Capital Murder Cases", Speaker, - 2014
Baylor Law School Criminal Practice Class, "Jury Selection", Lecture, 2014 - 2015
iEngage Summer Civics Institute for Children, Teacher, 2014 - 2015
Baylor Law School, Practice and Life after Law School, Speaker
Baylor Law School Lecture to Practice Court Class, "Jury Selection", Lecture, - 2015
Voice of Jubilee Apostolic Center, "Know Your Rights & Immigration Update", Speaker , - 2015
Baylor University Lecture to Public Law & Service Class, "Capital Defense", Lecture, 2015 - 2016
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, "Mitigation in Non-Capital Cases", Presentation, - 2016
Baylor Law School Awards Ceremony & Lecture Series, "Distinguished Speaker", - April 14, 2015
Justice And Mercy
Jailhouse Snitches Don't Go To The Pen, But Send A Friend
The Price Of Freedom
Seeking Life In The (Death) Bible Belt
The Pope On Never Excluding The Dimension Of Hope
TCDLA Rusty Duncan Seminar on “Mitigation and Jury Selection”, Co-presented with Robert Swafford, July 1, 2016 - Present
Baylor Law School New Student Orientation, Speaker, August 18, 2016 - Present
Baylor Law School Legal Mapmaker’s CLE “Bar & Community Involvement”, Speaker, August 19, 2016 - Present
TCDLA Voir Dire Seminar on “Jury Selection: The Colorado Method & Strike for Cause Method”, Speaker – Co-presented with Jeff Blackburn (founder of the Texas Innocence Project), September 9, 2016 - Present
Waco NAACP, Conducted a Jury Workshop, Speaker, September 17, 2016 - Present
Lecture to Baylor University Law & Public Service Course “Representing the Accused and Public Service”, September 29, 2016 - Present
Baylor Law School Practice Court Class “Jury Selection”, Co-Lecture with Robert Swafford , November 14, 2016 - Present
Waco High School – Mock Trial Class, Lecturer, November 16, 2016 - Present
Scheduled to speak at Texas State Bar CLE on jury selection, unable to present in the end, but provided paper for the seminar , December 1, 2016 - Present
NAACP/Phi Kappa Delta Commission on Civil Rights “The Power of Juries in the Fight for Criminal Justice”, Speaker, January 12, 2017 - Present
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Advanced Criminal Law Seminar in Aspen, Colorado on “Sentencing & Mitigation”, Speaker, January 18, 2017 - Present
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Seminar on Jury Selection, Speaker, January 1, 2017 - Present
Conducted Focus Group for large civil litigation case with jury consultant/attorney Robert Swafford , February 1, 2017 - Present
Southern Methodist University, Sports Ethics Graduate Course, “Title IX and Campus Sexual Assault Cases”, April 18, 2017 - Present
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Seminar on Jury Selection, Speaker, April 21, 2017 - Present
Waco Legal Professionals Association, “Title IX Investigations and Adjudications in the University Setting.”, Speaker, May 9, 2017 - Present
CJA Panel Training/Federal Criminal Defense Seminar – “Resist, Persist and Defend: CJA Panel Representation in Waco, Texas”, Panel Speaker, May 19, 2017 - Present
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Seminar “Successfully Defending Child Physical Abuse and Child Death Cases, Pretrial Investigations”, Speaker, September 15, 2017 - Present
Baylor Law School “First Seven Years of Practice: What I Wish I’d Known from the Start”, Speaker, September 21, 2017 - Present
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Fall Seminar on Title IX Cases, Speaker, October 1, 2017 - Present
Scheduled to Speak at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Association Sexual Assault Seminar in Las Vegas, November 1, 2017 - Present

Qualifications

Bar Admissions

Texas, 2010
New York, 2019
U.S. District Court Western District of Texas, 2011
U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, 2014
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas, 2017
U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 2017
U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan, 2018
U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas, 2018

Other Affiliations

Capital Defense (death penalty appointment list) “second chair” qualified – 3rd Judicial Region of Texas, 2013 - 2016
Waco McLennan County Bar Association, 2010 - 2016 (Member)
United States District Court, Western District of Texas, Waco Division (CJA Panel Member)
Judge Abner V. McCall American Inn of Court, 2014 - 2016 (Associate/Member)
American Bar Association (Member)
College of the State Bar of Texas (Member)
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (Member)
McLennan County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (Member)
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Life Member)
Former Associate Municipal Court Judge – City of Woodway, Texas
State Bar of Texas (Member)
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) (Board of Directors)
NACDL, Amicus Curiae Committee (Fifth Circuit Vice Chair)
NACDL Title IX Committee (Member)
NACDL Budget Committee (Member)
NACDL Death Penalty Committee (Member)
NACDL Women in Criminal Defense Committee (Member)
NACDL Membership Committee (Vice-Chair)
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (TCDLA) (Member)
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (Board of Directors)
TCDLA New Lawyers’ Committee (Co-Chair)
TCDLA Law School Committee (Member)
TCDLA Nomination Committee (Member)
Waco McLennan County Bar Association
McLennan County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
Municipal Court Judge – City of Woodway, Texas (Former Associate)

Past Positions

Law Office of Russell D. Hunt Sr., Associate, 2012
Law Office of Rod Goble, Associate, 2010 - 2012
McLennan County District Attorney's Office, Waco, TX, Legal Intern — Fall, 2009
Fee, Smith, Sharp & Vitullo, Dallas, TX, Summer Associate - Summer, 2009
Kelly, Hart & Hallman, Fort Worth, TX, Summer Associate - Summer, 2009
Amnesty International, United Kingdom, Intern, Parliamentary Branch - Fall, 2004
Professional Slalom Water Skier, 2002 - 2009
Mastercraft Boats, Sponsored Athlete, 2002 - 2008
Shaklee Products, Sponsored Athlete, 2006 - 2008
Hunt & Tuegel PLLC, Partner, 2013 - 2018

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