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Eads, Linda S.

Associate Professor of Law

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Bio

Following graduation from law school, Professor Eads joined the U.S. Department of Justice, where she was a trial attorney and then a senior trial attorney in the Tax Division. At the Justice Department, she received the Outstanding Attorney Award. From January 1999 to August 2000, Professor Eads served as Deputy Attorney General for Texas. In this position she supervised 300 lawyers in the eleven civil litigation divisions of the Attorney General’s Office. She also participated in the appeal to the 5th Circuit of the decision in Hopwood and in the landmark agreement between Aetna and Texas regarding HMO practices in Texas. She teaches in the areas of professional responsibility, evidence, trial advocacy, constitutional law, criminal tax fraud, and women and the law.

Primary Articles

GETTING IT RIGHT: THE TRIAL OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND CHILD MOLESTATION CASES UNDER FEDERAL RULES ON EVIDENCE, 413-415, 18 Behavior Sciences and the Law 169-216 (2000) (co-authored).

 

Books

Student guide, QUESTIONS & ANSWERS: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Lexis Pub.) (with McGreal).

 

Speeches/Presentations

“Changes in Referral Fee Practice in Texas,” Dallas Bar Association, July, 2004.

Speaker, “Legal Ethics and Professionalism”, annual meeting of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, Ft. Myers, FL., October, 2004.

Speaker, “Can Lawyers Achieve Civil Responsibility While Still Maximizing Wealth”, at SMU Corporate Counsel Symposium, October, 2004.

Organized and served as moderator of the Dallas Young Lawyer’s yearly forum on important legal issues.

Speaker, “Ethical Considerations in Corporate Governance,” National Association of Securities Law Administrators, yearly meeting in New Orleans.

Speaker, “Ethical Considerations in Corporate Governance,” Board of Directors of the McGuire Center.

Moderator, debate between various Texas Supreme Court candidates.

 

Other

CORPORATE AMERICA AND ITS ETHICAL CHOICES, SMU-McGuire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, paper No. 19 (2004).

Monthly column for the TEXAS LAWYER on legal ethics.

BETTY CROCKER OR BARBARA JORDAN: LIMITED ROLES FOR WOMEN AND THE EFFECT OF REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ON MOTHERHOOD, Texas Journal of Women and the Law, Spring 1998.

 


Curriculum Vitae

 

Education

B.A., 1971, American University
J.D., 1975, University of Texas