Biography
I'm a lawyer in private practice in Houston, Texas. My last name is pronounced 'Tate.' (I sorta wish my German great-great-something grandfather had changed the spelling to be more user-friendly when he came to this country 150+ years ago, but there you go.)
I post occasional reading notes, observations, and sometimes essays, about legal matters at the 100 Feet Up blog and its companion archive wiki. (The origin of the name is here.)
I spend a good deal of my time on my Pactix model contract project, developing tools to reduce the time and expense of negotiating routine commercial contracts.
My non-work blog is The Questioning Christian. I'm an Episcopalian, fairly active in one of the largest Episcopal parishes in the U.S., formerly serving as an elected member of its vestry.
Any views I might express on-line are my own and not those of my clients, my former employer, my former law firm, my parish, etc., etc.
Email address: dc //dahtt// toedt //attt // toedt //dahtt // commm. (CAUTION: DO NOT send me any confidential information without my prior agreement; if you do, you might lose any applicable attorney-client privilege in the information, because you and I will not have an attorney-client relationship unless we both expressly agree to that in advance.)
