David Halpern

David Halpern is an Austin attorney, married 40 years and father of two. Over the past 20 years, David has served on local, state and national boards that include the Seedling Foundation (mentoring children of incarcerated parents), The Sims Foundation (providing affordable behavioral health and addiction treatment for members of the Austin music community), Mental Health American of Texas, Education Reach for Texans (supporting youth with lived in experience in foster care), and the American Board of Trial Advocates where he is co-chair of its Editorial Board and founder of the national civic education program, the Teachers Law School.

David and Linda are the proud parents of Katelyn Rose Halpern, a dancer, choreographer, and poet in Jersey City, N.J. and Joshua Nathanial Halpern, a professional musician where the road is often his home.

As a lawyer, David served the people of Texas for 30 years as an Assistant Attorney General and Assistant General Counsel for the Texas A&M System Office of General Counsel where he provided counsel to its universities. As a trial lawyer, David defended state agencies and employees in personal injury, medical malpractice and employment discrimination and retaliation cases. He is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law; an adjunct professor at the Texas A&M School of Law and the University of Texas School of Law.  He has years of faculty service to the National Institute for Trial Advocacy,  the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Supreme Court’s Permanent Commission for Children, Youth, and Families, and the National Association of Attorneys General.  His writings have been published in the Texas Bar Journal, Voir Dire quarterly, the Juror Connection, and he is a contributing author to the book, Practicing Medicine in the 21st Century.