As a member of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.'s litigation section since 1993, Cecil Kuhne has represented clients in federal and state court proceedings involving complex commercial disputes, business torts, and product liability. 

His experience extends to litigation concerning contractual interpretation, misappropriation of trade secrets, liability for pharmaceutical products and medical devices, professional malpractice, environmental degradation, and oil and gas development.

• State Bar of Texas
  • Litigation Section
  • Appellate Section 
• Dallas Bar Association
  • Business Litigation Section
  • Corporate Counsel Section
• Texas Association of Defense Counsel
  • Former Editor, Commercial Litigation Newsletter

Legal Treatises (Author) 

• A Litigator's Guide to Expert Witnesses (ABA., 2006, 225 pp.)
• Convincing the Judge: Practical Advice for Litigators (ABA., 2008, 197 pp.)
• Building Your Best Argument: Tested Stratgegies for Litigators (ABA., 2010, 265 pp.)

Legal Treatises (Contributor)

• "Tortious Interference with Business Relations" (Ch. 205), Texas Litigation Guide
• "Interference with Business Relations" (Ch. 46), Texas Torts and Remedies
• "Hearsay Exceptions" (Ch. 803), Weinstein's Federal Evidence

Law Reviews

Constitutional concerns:

• "The Diminishing Sphere of Political Speech: Implications of an Overbearing Election Bureaucracy," The Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy
• "Testing the Outer Limits of Commercial Speech: Its First Amendment Implications," The Review of Litigation (The University of Texas School of Law)
• "School Voucher Programs: Has the Supreme Court Pulled Up the Gangplank to Establishment Clause Challenges?" St. Mary's Law Journal

Litigation discovery in the federal context:

• "Excluding Testimony of Financial Experts in Federal Litigation: How Far Do the Daubert Standards Extend?" St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary
• "The Advice-of-Counsel Defense in Patent Infringement Cases: How Far Does Waiver of Work Product Extend? " Pepperdine Law Review

Federal legislation:

• "The Steadily Shrinking Public Domain: Inefficiencies of Existing Copyright Law in the Modern Technology Age," Loyola Law Review
• "Forcing the Copyright Genie Back Into the Bottle: Public Policy Implications of Copyright Extension Legislation," Southwestern University Law Review
• "Expanding the Scope of Securities Fraud?: The Shifting Sands of Central Bank," Drake Law Review

1976 - J.D., Texas Tech University School of Law
1973 - B.A. (cum laude), Economics, Texas Christian University

Admitted to practice law in Texas in 1977. Also admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and all U.S. District Courts of Texas.

Author of twenty books, ranging in subject from adventure travel and whitewater rafting to the works of the late British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge.