R. DUANE FRIZELL

rdf@callister-reynolds.com

EDUCATION:

Juris Doctorate, May 1998
University of Maryland School of Law
Graduate, University Honors
Recipient, Milton Talkin Scholarship
Executive Articles Editor, Maryland Law Review

Master of Arts, August 1995
International & Area Studies: Asian Studies
Brigham Young University
Recipient, Christensen Foundation Grant for Thesis Research
Recipient, Kennedy Center Scholarship
International Student, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, PRC

Bachelor of Arts, August 1993
Political Science and Chinese (double major)
Brigham Young University
Graduate, Cum Laude
Graduate, University Honors
Recipient, Phelps Dodge Foundation Scholarship

JUDICIAL LAW CLERK, August 1998 – September 1999
The Honorable Pamela B. Minzner
Supreme Court of New Mexico

BAR ADMISSIONS/AFFILIATIONS:
New Mexico (1998); Texas (1999); Nevada (2006)
United States District Courts for the Districts of New Mexico, as well as the Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas (2000)
United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Tenth Circuits (2001)

REPORTED CASES:
In re Recals of Gadsden Independent Schools Board Members, 2005-NMSC-037m 138 N.M. 575, 124 P.3d 210 (lead counsel)

Cronin v. Sierra Med. Ctr., 2000-NMCA-082, 129 N.M. 521, 10 P.3d 845, cert. denied, 129 N.M. 519, 10 P.3d 843 (2000), cert. denied, 532 U.S. 921 (2001) (co-counsel)

Thompson v. Pate, 69 S.W.3d 743 ( Tex. App. C El Paso 2002, no pet (co-counsel)

PUBLICATIONS:
Robert D. Frizell, Note, Gilchrist v. State: Extending to White Potential Jurors the Equal Protection Right to a Racially Neutral Jury Selection Process, 56 Md. L. Rev. 674 (1997).

Robert D. Frizell, Book Summary, 1996-1997 Chinese Y.B. Int'l L. & Aff. 223 (reviewing Ralph H. Folsom & W. Davis Folsom, Understanding NAFTA and Its International Business Implications (1996)).

Duane Frizell, Historical Development of Law in Chinese Politics, J. Int'l & Area Stud., Winter 1993, at 35.

CLE SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS:
Ethical Considerations for the Environmental Practitioner. @ Texas Water Law Seminar, CLE International (Houston, Tex. May 2004).

Ethical Considerations for the Water Practitioner. @ Texas Water Law Seminar, CLE International (Austin, Tex. Oct. 2003).

PROFESSIONAL:
Civil Appeals
Commercial and Antitrust Litigation
Water/Environmental Law
International Commercial Disputes
Products Liability

LANGUAGES:
Mandarin Chinese (fluent)
Spanish (intermediate)