D. Shane Read is a best-selling and multiple award-winning author. Both his deposition book, Winning at Deposition, and his trial advocacy book, Winning at Trial, have won the highest award available for a legal publication: the Association for Continuing Legal Education's Best Publication Award. He is also an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University and a faculty member of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.

A graduate of Yale University and the University of Texas School of Law, he began his career at Akin Gump in 1989. Since 1998, he has worked on civil and criminal cases as an Assistant United States Attorney in Dallas, Texas, and teaches lawyers and law students throughout the United States.

 

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