Meet the Law Practice Management Committee
The Committee is comprised of experienced lawyers from across Texas who have been appointed by the State Bar president.

JOhn
Meredith
Vice Chair
John Meredith is the Chief Operating Officer for Chamberlain Hrdlicka, which is a diversified law firm with multiple practice areas including tax, litigation, corporate, IP, real estate and estate planning. After graduating from Baylor Law School, he practiced trial law in Houston. He worked at nonprofits including Aspiring Youth where he was the founding President and General Counsel and at SpringSpirit as Executive Director and General Counsel. He has worked in law practice management at Greenberg Traurig as Business Director, Beck Redden as Executive Director and Chamberlain Hrdlicka as COO.

Debra L.
Bruce
Debra L. Bruce is President of Lawyer-Coach LLC, which provides coaching and training for lawyers on leadership and management, team effectiveness, and productivity. Capitalizing on 18 years in law practice and 20 years coaching, she helps lawyers adapt effectively to the unprecedented changes occurring in the legal industry today. She emphasizes 3 Ps for their practice: Productivity, Profitability and Personal Fulfillment. Debra was the first lawyer in Texas to be credentialed by the International Coach Federation. She has served as the Chair of the Law Practice Management Committee of the Houston Bar Association, served on a number of ABA Law Practice Division committees, and is currently the Co-Chair of the Productivity & Knowledge Strategy Committee of the ABA Law Practice Division.

Justice Lawrence Doss
Justice Larry Doss serves on the 46-county Seventh District of Texas, serving the Texas Panhandle and South Plains. Before going on the bench, Justice Doss was a partner in the firm of Mullin Hoard & Brown, LLP, a diversified law firm with multiple practice areas located in the Panhandle and Dallas metroplex. He previously served as a law clerk to Hon. Sam R. Cummings, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Larry is a Life Member of the Texas Bar Foundation and is a Trustee of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society. He is married Julie Doss, who is the Chair of the State Bar’s Public Affairs Committee.

Holly
Draper
Holly Draper is the managing partner of The Draper Law Firm, PC in McKinney, Texas. She is board certified in family law and has grown her firm from a solo practice starting in 2008 to a boutique family law firm with six attorneys. She practices primarily in Collin and Denton counties but handles cases throughout the DFW metroplex. She also handles family law appeals. Holly represented the father in the landmark parental rights case In re C.J.C. (No. 19-0694), where the Texas Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in favor of her client. She regularly gives CLE presentations to various attorney groups on C.J.C. and is regularly retained to represent parents in custody cases filed by non-parents. Holly is active in the Collin County Bar Association and has served on the leadership team for the CCBA’s Family Law Section.
Committee Members
Not Pictured
Diana Brown Melissa Astala Khan
James W. Wester (Board Advisor) Carmen Mae Roe (Alternate Board Advisor)
Peter S. Vogel is a lawyer at VOGEL IT LAW aka Peter S. Vogel, PC. Before practicing law he worked as a computer programmer, received a Master’s in Computer Science, and taught graduate courses in information systems.
Peter has negotiated hundreds of IT, eCommerce, and Cybersecurity contracts and had trials around the US on failed, software implementations, misappropriation of trade secrets, copyright infringement, software patent infringement, and eCommerce Internet disputes.
For more than 30 years Peter has been an Arbitrator and Mediator with the American Arbitration Association, and a Tech List Member of the Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center. Currently Peter is the General Counsel of the North Texas Information Systems & Security Association.
For 12 years Peter served as the Founding Chair of the Texas Supreme Court Judicial Committee on Information Technology which is responsible for helping automate the Texas court system and creating the Texas eFiling System.
Peter has taught courses at the SMU Dedman School of Law for more than 25 years including courses on eDiscovery and the Law of eCommerce. Many of Peter’s topics are discussed on his Internet, IT & E-Discovery blog www.vogelitlaw.com/blog.