Roger Townsend

Practice Areas

Civil Appeals

Trial Legal Strategy

Legal Argument

Career

Co-Chair of Appellate Practice Group, Cokinos | Young, P.C.; appellate practice for more than 40 years; Board Certified in Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since its inception in 1987.

Professional Memberships

- Past President of by-invitation only American Academy of Appellate Lawyers

- Past Chair State Bar of Texas Appellate Section

- Houston Bar Association: Appellate Practice Section

- Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit

Publications

- Editor-in-Chief, Texas Appellate Practice Manual (State Bar of Texas 1993).

- National Editor, Superseding and Staying Judgments: A National Compendium (ABA TIPS 2007)

- Author, A Defense Lawyer’s Guide to Appellate Practice (DRI 2004)

- Author, Appellate Practice in Federal and State Courts (Law Journal Press 2011)

- Author, Texas Practitioner’s Guide to Civil Appeals (ALM 2014).