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Board of Directors Tyrone Moncriffe (N) Houston, TX 5th Circuit
 Tyrone C. Moncriffe is Board Certified in Criminal Law. He is certified first chair in Death Penalty cases in Harris County, Texas. Tyrone is Board Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is a faculty member of the Criminal Law Institute. He graduated from Texas Southern University Magna Cum Laude and Thurgood Marshall School of Law in 1982.He has been in private practice since 1983 where he handles criminal cases.He is an active faculty member of the Trial Advocacy Institute where he assists with training members in various trial tactics such as Voir Dire, direct/cross examination and the psychology of stories as they relate to trials.He is an active member of many professional associations and a past Director of TCDLA. NATIONAL BOARD OF TRIAL ADVOCACYCriminal Law Specialist – 1998Certified Specialist Capital Murder – 1st Chair Harris CountyLecturer / Faculty:Huntsville, Texas Seminar – Trial AdvocacyDeath Penalty – Demonstrative Evidence – 2002Center for American and International Law – 2004 - 2005 State Bar of Texas – Speaker – 2008 - 2011Voir Dire Seminar – 2009 & 2010Rusty Duncan Seminar – 2009, 2010 & 2011Final ArgumentsTCDLAIndigent Defense – Voir DireAdvance Criminal Lawyers Lectures – Persuasion of a Story – 2008University of Houston – Power of the Story – 2006 - 2011Criminal Defense Lawyers Project Louisiana Defense Lawyers Assoc. – Power of the Story - 2009 Travis County Criminal Lawyers Association - Austin, Texas – Storytelling – 2009Voted Top Lawyer for the People in H Texas Magazine - 2005One of the Best Lawyer in Houston in H Texas Magazine – 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011Selected as Texas Super Lawyer - 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010NACDL – Storytelling and the Art of Persuasion – 2010Federal Public Defenders Seminar - 2011 Mr. Moncriffe has given presentations for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) in February 2010, Austin, Texas, February 2011 in San Antonio, Texas and in April 2011 was ask by President Jim Lavine to speak in Houston, Texas. Mr. Moncriffe’s presentation was voted as one of the best of 2010 by (NACDL).Mr. Moncriffe would want to participate on the committee on Diversity if elected to the Board. Mr. Moncriffe devotes a great deal of his time speaking to young lawyers in an effort to help them develop better trial skills. He has spoken and been a faculty member for the last 10 years at the Criminal Law Institute in Huntsville, Texas given by Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Associates. He has spoken and been a faculty member at the Criminal Law Institute in Plano, Texas for the last 8 years. He regularly speaks at the University of Houston and Texas Southern University to young lawyers on developing, communication and trial skills. He has spoken on Death Penalty Issues in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Mississippi in an effort to assist lawyers on Death Penalty issues. Mr. Moncriffe has a radio show (Moncriffe Files) in Baytown, Texas KWWJ 1360, where he speaks and explains legal issues to keep the community abreast of their basic rights as American citizens. National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
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