John Goren
John Alan Goren was the Republican candidate for Dallas County Court at Law No. 3 in 2010.[1]
Elections
- See also: Texas judicial elections, 2010
Goren was defeated by incumbent Democrat Sally Lundberg Montgomery in the general election.[2]
Education
Goren graduated in 1970 from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylavania and in 1974 graduated in the top five% of his class from the University of Georgia School of Law with the degree of J.D. Cum Laude.[3][4]
Career
From 1974-77, he served as an Attorney-Adviser with the Securities Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. He returned to Dallas, Texas and entered into private practice with a large and small firm before opening a solo practice. Since 1987, he has been Board Certified in Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He has written briefs and orally argued before the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fifth and Federal Circuits and a majority of the intermediate appellate courts in Texas. He is one of the few lawyers to have written briefs and orally argued before both the Supreme Court of Texas and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. In his practice he has handled virtually every type of civil case at all levels of the court system as well as engaged in a business-oriented desk practice.[3]
Accomplishments
Active in several bar associations, he has a list of innovative firsts. When he served on the MCLE Committee of the State Bar of Texas, he was an early advocate for use of the Internet to provide low-cost, quality continuing legal education to lawyers and initiated the first experimental online programs in Texas. He founded the Appellate Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association, the first appellate section of a local bar association in Texas. And, when active with the Plano Bar Association (where he served as President as well as in other offices), he co-founded a seminar for divorcing parents to help parents cope with their divorces called "For Kids' Sake," which was the first such program created in Texas to meet the special needs of that state. The award-winning "For Kids' Sake" program has been offered in 58 counties in the State of Texas.[3]
Footnotes
Federal courts:
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Eastern District of Texas, Western District of Texas, Northern District of Texas, Southern District of Texas • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Eastern District of Texas, Western District of Texas, Northern District of Texas, Southern District of Texas
State courts:
Texas Supreme Court • Texas Court of Appeals • Texas Court of Criminal Appeals • Texas District Courts • Texas County Courts • Texas County Courts at Law • Texas Statutory Probate Courts • Texas Justice of the Peace Courts
State resources:
Courts in Texas • Texas judicial elections • Judicial selection in Texas
