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Dick DeGuerin


1018 Preston St Fl 7
Houston, TX 77002-1823(713) 223-5959
ddeguerin@aol.com
App,Cap-app,Cap-hab,Cap-mur,Drug,DWI,Extra,Fam,Fed-app,Fed-post,Fed-tri,Fel,Juv,Mis,Sex,State-tri
Member Since: 10/29/1971
Bio
Mr. DeGuerin specializes in criminal defense and enjoys a widely varied practice in both state and federal trials and appeals. In practice for fifty-eight years, he was associated with famed defense attorney Percy Foreman during the seventies and has successfully defended a wide variety of clients in State and Federal Court, including doctors, lawyers, judges, a United States Senator; and persons accused of murder, smuggling, money laundering and white collar crime. Mr. DeGuerin was the first lawyer in the United States to file a motion relating to the "Hyde Amendment." He was referred to as "one of the state's finest lawyers" in Texas Monthly 1994 Bum Steer Awards, Outstanding Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year in 1994 by the State Bar of Texas, Attorney of the Year for 1999 by the Harris County Criminal Layers Association, and was named in the Houston Chronicle, December 12, 1999, as one of the top ten lawyers in Harris County in the past 100 years. He is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and a Fellow in the American Board of Criminal Lawyers, as well as a charter member of both the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and the Harris County Criminal Lawyers, and a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense lawyers. In addition to his busy trial practice he teaches Criminal Defense Advocacy as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law.