Faculty
UH LAW CENTER ADJUNCT FACULTY
Michael E. Clark
Hamel, Bowers & Clark, L.L.P.
Michael E. Clark is a partner with Hamel Bowers & Clark LLP in Houston, TX, where he represents businesses and executives, conducts internal investigations, and provides advice on matters involving corporate governance. He has extensive trial and appellate experience in federal and state courts. Mr. Clark has served as faculty instructor for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) since the 1990's, teaching at its Southern Regional Program and its Houston Deposition Program. Before entering private practice in 1998, Mr. Clark was a federal prosecutor for 10 years (which included four years as the Criminal Division Chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas).
Within the American Bar Association, Mr. Clark holds several leadership positions: He serves as the Chair of the Health Law Section's Executive Publications Committee and is a member of the Section's Governing Council; serves as the Chair of the Business Law Section's White Collar Crimes Committee and is a member of the editorial board for the Section's peer reviewed publication, "The Business Lawyer"; serves as a member of the ABA's Standing Committee on Publishing Oversight; and serves as co-chair of the South Texas Regional Subcommittee of the White Collar Crimes Committee within the Criminal Justice Section.
Mr. Clark is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Life Fellow of the Houston Bar Foundation. He is Board Certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Clark is AV® rated by Martindale Hubbell, and a member of the National Arbitration Forum Panel.
He has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, where he has taught Antitrust and Health Care; Food and Drug Law; and has co-taught Regulation of Biomedical Research, Civil Trial Advocacy, and Criminal Trial Advocacy. In addition to his J.D. (from South Texas College of Law), Mr. Clark has obtained two LL.M. degrees - one in Taxation and the other in Health Law - from the University of Houston Law Center.
For several years, Mr. Clark served as the Editor-in-Chief of the HEALTH CARE FRAUD & ABUSE NEWSLETTER, and he currently is a member of the editorial boards of the BUSINESS CRIMES BULLETIN and the CCH HEALTH CARE COMPLIANCE LETTER.
Mr. Clark is the editor-in-chief of PHARMACEUTICAL LAW: REGULATION OF RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND MARKETING (BNA/ABA Section of Health Law 2007); has contributed chapters to Aspen Publishing's HEALTH LAW AND COMPLIANCE UPDATES for 2003 through 2006: "Current Issues in Pharmaceutical Marketing"; "Current Issues in Healthcare and Antitrust"; "Current Issues in Clinical Research"; "Compliance and Governance Issues and Trends after Sarbanes-Oxley"; and "The Growing Importance of Securities Regulation for Publicly-Traded Entities in the Post-Sarbanes-Oxley Marketplace." He also contributed a chapter (and an update) entitled "Litigation Issues in Antitrust and Managed Care" for MANAGED CARE LITIGATION, which was jointly published by BNA/ABA Health Law Section in 2005.
He speaks and writes frequently about a variety of topics affecting businesses and professionals, and has made recent presentations about internal investigations, corporate governance and compliance issues, antitrust and complex litigation issues, and white collar defense issues. Mr. Clark has been interviewed and quoted by several national media sources about various public interest cases or legal matters, including the Associated Press, the Cancer Letter, the Chicago Tribune; CNBC; the Dallas Morning News; 48 Hours (CBS); the Health Channel; the Houston Chronicle; the National Law Journal; the New York Law Journal; the New York Times; the Texas Lawyer; and USA Today.
COURSES:
- Civil Trial Advocacy
Criminal Trial Advocacy
Antitrust & Health Law
Food & Drug Law