Michael Curry earned a J.D. degree (with honors) from the UT School of Law in 1976. After working as a Briefing Attorney for Texas Supreme Court Justice Thomas Reavely, he served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Texas Attorney General's Office. Mr. Curry entered private practice in Austin, Texas in 1980, handling civil litigation. He has served as a member of the Pattern Jury Charge - Volume IV Committee (1995-96) and as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the UT Law School from 1985 to 1998. Mr. Curry has authored or co-authored numerous articles and one book and has taught a graduate course on Alternative Dispute Resolution at Texas State University. When he practiced law, he was admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Northern and Western Districts of Texas, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of the Travis County and San Antonio Bar Associations. Mr. Curry is a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and the Austin Bar Foundation. He is rated by Martindale-Hubble as an AV Preeminent lawyer.
Mr. Curry is an AAM Certified Mediator.
A full-time mediator since 1994, Mr. Curry has mediated over 5,000 cases, including complex personal injury, corporate, employment, partnership, construction, DTPA, malpractice, contract, insurance, real estate, zoning, appellate, and regulatory disputes. He is on the approved mediator lists for the federal district courts in the Western District of Texas (Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, Waco) and for the state district courts in Austin and San Antonio. Mr. Curry is a member of the Association of Attorney-Mediators (President of the Central Texas Chapter, 1996-97). In the public policy dispute arena, he has served both as a mediator and facilitator and is a Fellow of the Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution. He served as co-moderator of a national online discussion forum dealing with alternative dispute resolution issues for two years and has spoken at seminars for lawyers and mediators on mediation, ethics, and negotiation.
