Faculty
Chad Baruch
Chad Baruch served as the 85th Chair of the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors and is the first Jewish bar chair or president in Texas history. A former college basketball coach and government professor, Chad is board-certified in civil appellate law. As the Texas Lawbook recently wrote, “big corporate America” hires Chad for “bet-the-company” appeals.
Chad has been voted to the “Top 100 in Texas” list of Super Lawyers four of the past five years. In 2019, he was named an “Appellate Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in America. And LawDragon recently named him one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America.”
A recognized constitutional scholar, Chad also serves as a contributor to Black’s Law Dictionary and has lectured to thousands of judges and attorneys, from more than 25 different nations, on legal writing. His scholarly work has been cited as legal authority in several appellate opinions and more than 50 law review articles.
A former college and high school head basketball coach, Chad was a Finalist for State Coach of the Year from the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches in 2006. He has served as the men’s basketball coach at the University of Dallas and Paul Quinn College.
David Coale
David Coale is a partner at Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann in Dallas, Texas. Widely recognized as one of the top appellate lawyers in Texas, his diverse experience ranges from sophisticated constitutional issues in the United States Supreme Court to the defense of a payphone operator before a Tarrant County Justice of the Peace. He is among the few lawyers to have handled a matter in all fifteen of the Texas intermediate courts of appeals. David is the only known Texas appellate lawyer fictionalized in a romance-novel series as the lawyer for an outlaw motorcycle gang.
A frequent commentator on legal issues, David publishes 600camp.com, a popular blog about business cases in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and 600commerce.com, a similar blog about the Dallas Court of Appeals and Texas Supreme Court. His recent articles have appeared in Slate, Salon, the Times of Israel, and the Cornell Law Review Online.