About
Before starting his very own law practice, Don labored for a properly-regarded corporate regulation workplace, for a country legal professional general, and as a judicial law clerk. He has visible first-hand how the regulation is made, how it's miles formed with the aid of courtroom selections, and the way it affects enterprise customers.
Don commenced his legal profession with a one-year clerkship at the Texas Supreme Court, which is Texas s maximum courtroom and specializes in civil (not crook) instances. Law clerks help the Court compare which of the roughly 1000 petitions filed every yr have to be granted and help the Justices write their critiques.
His private exercise started out as a litigator for Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a prominent New York regulation workplace. While at Wachtell, Don worked on numerous excessive-stakes industrial disputes. The cases blanketed contract law, insurance coverage, enterprise torts, securities fraud, financial ruin, antitrust law, and federal regulatory investigations. He become a member of the trial crew in IBP, Inc. v. Tyson Foods, a landmark merger case within the Delaware Court of Chancery, and also labored at the belongings-coverage lawsuit filed to assist rebuild the World Trade Center. He specially enjoyed his paintings on cases related to net domain names, trademark law, copyright, and sports regulation.
In 2003, Don back to Texas to function an Assistant Solicitor General (ASG) inside the Texas Office of the Lawyer General. ASGs are individuals of the Solicitor General s division, which handles the State s maximum crucial appellate cases. Don s instances concerned questions of constitutional law and the way courts have to interpret new statutes. He has argued earlier than the Texas Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and different Texas appellate courts.
In 2007, Don started out his very own regulation exercise based in Austin, Texas.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Entertainment & Sports Law
- Constitutional Law
- Copyright
- First Amendment
- Internet Law
Costs
Certificates
Languages
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Lawyer
Law Office of Don Cruse
2007 - Assistant Solicitor General
Office of the Solicitor General, State of Texas
2003 - Associate
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
2000 - Law Clerk to Justice Priscilla Owen
Supreme Court of Texas
1999
Educations
Graduation year: 1996
Graduation year: 1996
Graduation year: 1991
