ACADEMIC COUNSEL Northwestern University School of Law J.D., 1988 cum laude University of Arizona B.A. English with High Honors, 1984 Phi Beta Kappa Assistant Professor of Law Walter F. George School of Law Mercer University 2002-present Visiting Professor of Law University of Houston 2004 Adjunct Professor of Law University of Texas School of Law 1999-2001 Admitted to Practice Texas, 1988 Georgia, 2006 Printer Friendly Version DAVID HRICIK dhricik@yetterwarden.com  |   713.632.8000   |     vCard David Hricik is a Professor of Law with the Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University, in Macon, Georgia. The Firm consults with him on matters concerning legal malpractice, intellectual property, federal civil procedure, and complex commercial litigation. He is a past chair of the Ethics and Professionalism Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, as well as the Professionalism and Ethics Committee of the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association. Professor Hricik was the Chair for 2002-2003 of the Ethics Committee of the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association; a member of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Committee of the Texas State Bar in 1997-2002; a member of the Drafting Subcommittee of the TDRPCC in 1999-2002; a member of the Special Joint Subcommittee which drafted the Texas advertising rules regulating the Internet; a member of the Texas Appellate Lawyer's Creed Drafting Committee in 1998; chair of the Amicus Brief Committee of the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association in 1995-1996; and a member of the Editorial Review Board Jurimetrics in 1997-2000. Professor Hricik is an accomplished author and has written numerous books and articles, including Property: Cases, Documents, and Lawyering Strategies (2008) (Casebook, co-authored with Professors Crump & Caudill); Modern Statutory Interpretation (2006) (Carolina Academic Press, co-authored with Professor Jellum); Trouble Waiting to Happen: Malpractice and Ethical Issues in Patent Prosecution, 31 Am. Intell. Prop. L. Q.J. 387 (2003); Wrong About Everything: Application by the District Courts of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) to Inequitable Conduct, 86 Marquette L. Rev. 895 (2003); Aerial Boundaries: The Duty of Candor as a Limitation on the Duty of Patent Practitioners to Advocate for Maximum Patent Coverage, 44 So. Tex. L. Rev. 205 (2002); and Lawyers Worry Too Much About Transmitting Client Confidences by Internet E-mail, 11 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 459 (1998). He is admitted to practice in Texas, Georgia, the United States Supreme Court, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.