CURRICULUM VITAE (updated 1/1/16)
NAME:
Deandra M. Grant
PROFESSION: Founder & CEO, Deandra M. Grant & Associates (formerly Law Office of Deandra M. Grant P.C.), 1994-present
Founder & CEO, Deandra Grant Consulting, 2014-present
President, International Legal & Forensic Science Services, Inc., March 2013-present Vice President, International Legal & Forensic Science Services, Inc., August 2012-March 2013
Assistant District Attorney, Dallas County, Texas 1993-94 ADDRESS: Deandra M. Grant & Associates (main office)
800 E. Campbell, Suite 110 Richardson, TX 75081
OFFICE PHONE: (972) 943-8500 FAX NUMBER: (972) 432-7547 E-MAIL: [email protected]
WEBSITE: www.TexasDWIGal.com, www.DeandraGrantConsulting.com BLOG: TexasDWIGal.blogspot.com
EDUCATION: Graduate Degree Candidate: Masters in Forensic Science University of Florida, College of Pharmacy
Gainesville, Florida (expected graduation Fall 2016)
Graduate Degree Candidate: Certificate in Forensic Toxicology University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine
Gainesville, Florida (expect graduation Fall 2016) Graduate Degree: Juris Doctor
SMU School of Law Dallas, Texas 1990-1993
Undergraduate Degree: Bachelor of Science Trinity University
San Antonio, Texas 1986-1990 Primary: Plano Senior High School Plano, Texas 1984-1986
HONORS: 2015, D Magazine’s Best Lawyers in Dallas: DWI 2015, Texas Super Lawyers
2015, Texas’ Top Attorneys
2015, National Trial Lawyers’ Top 100 Trial Lawyers 2014, D Magazine’s Best Lawyers in Dallas: DWI 2014, Texas Super Lawyers
2014, National Trial Lawyers’ Top 100 Trial Lawyers 2014, Best Criminal Defense Lawyers in Dallas - DWI 2014, Texas’ Top Attorneys
2014, President’s Award, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Assn.
2014, Exceptional Service Award, Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyers Assn. 2013, National Trial Lawyers’ Top 100 Trial Lawyers
2013, Texas’ Top Attorneys
2013, Best Criminal Defense Lawyers in Dallas – DWI
2013, President’s Award, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Assn.
2012, Top Advocate Award, Collin County Criminal Defense Lawyers Assn. 2012, Texas Super Lawyers
2012, President’s Award, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Assn. 2011, Texas Super Lawyers
2011, D Magazine’s Best Lawyers in Dallas
2010, D Magazine’s Best Women Lawyers in Dallas AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers The College of the State Bar
Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity ASSOCIATIONS: State Bar of Texas
DUI Defense Lawyers Association (President-elect)
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (Board 2011-17, DWI Committee) Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (Board 2007-16)
Collin County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Dallas Bar Association
Denton County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association National Women Trial Lawyers Association
Dallas Women Lawyers Association NORML Legal Committee
American Academy of Forensic Sciences American Chemical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science American Association for Clinical Chemistry
PUBLICATIONS: Co-author, The Texas DWI Manual, James Publishing, 2013, 2014, 2015
“Attacking Breath Test Results”, EGuide, James Publishing, 2013
“Missouri v. McNeely: Are Warrantless Blood Draws History?”, Voice For the
TRAINING: 2015 – Obtained the ACS Forensic Lawyer-Scientist Designation as recognized by the Chemistry & the Law division of the American Chemical Society
2015 Forensic Chromatography Course II – American Chemical Society/Axion Labs, Chicago, IL
2015 Forensic DUID Course – American Chemical Society/Axion Labs, Chicago, IL 2014 Forensic Drug Analysis Course – American Chemical Society/Axion Labs, Chicago, IL
2013 Hands-On Forensic DNA For Lawyers Course, Boise State Univ., Boise, ID 2012 Terry MacCarthy Cross Examination Workshop, San Antonio, TX
2012 Terry MacCarthy Cross Examination Workshop, Tampa, FL 2011 Forensic Chromatography Course – American Chemical Society/Axion Labs, Chicago, IL
2010 Forensic Sobriety Assessment Certification Course
2010 20-hour Multi-Device Breath Testing Course, Atlanta, GA
2010 NHTSA Drug Evaluation & Classification Overview Course (DRE) 2009 NHTSA Standard Field Sobriety Testing Instructor Course
2008 28-hour Forensic Blood & Urine Testing Seminar, Atlanta, GA 2008 NHTSA Standard Field Sobriety Testing Course
2004 Intoxilyzer 5000 Operator Certification Course, Palm Springs, FL
2004 Intoxilyzer 5000 Maintenance Technician Certification Course, Palm Springs, FL 2004 Breath Analysis Forensic Workshop, Florida International University
GUEST LECTURES: “Forensic Aspects of Modern DWI Defense”, San Marcos, TX, October 2013 Visiting Lecturer, Texas State University
“DWI Defense 101”, Lubbock, TX, October 2013 Visiting Lecturer, Texas Tech School of Law
“Defending DWI Cases with Blood Evidence”, Dallas, TX, October 2013
Visiting Lecturer, SMU School of Law
“DWI Blood Cases: A Primer”, Dallas, TX, October 2012
Visiting Lecturer, SMU School of Law
PRESENTATIONS: “Intoxilyzer 5000 vs 8000 vs 9000”, Lewisville, TX, December 2015
Seminar: 8th Annual Jolly Roger Hal Jackson Memorial Criminal Law Seminar (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Enzymatic Serum Ethanol Testing: Anatomy of a Criminal Case”, Little Rock,
AR, October, 2015
“Cross Examining the State’s Blood Expert”, Course Director, Chicago, IL, July
2015
Seminar: 2015 Summer Seminar (DUI Defense Lawyers Association)
“Deconstructing the State’s Blood Expert” & “Intoxilyzer 5000 vs 8000 vs 9000”,
Course Director, Austin, TX, July 2015
Seminar: Lone Star DWI (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Cross Examination of the State’s Blood Expert”, Course Director, Arlington, TX,
May 2015
Seminar: DWI Defense Project (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Forensic Blood Testing 101”, San Antonio, TX, April 2015
Seminar: 52nd Annual Criminal Law Institute (San Antonio Bar Association & Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Common Defenses in Breath Testing Cases”, Columbus, OH, March 2015
Seminar: Advanced DUI Seminar (Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)
“Enzymatic Serum Ethanol Testing: Anatomy of a Criminal Case”, Key West, FL,
Feb 2015
Seminar: 9th Annual Diving Into a DUI Case Seminar (Trial Skills University & Meadows Law Firm)
Course Director, Santa Monica, CA, Jan 2015
Seminar: 2015 Winter Seminar (DUI Defense Lawyers Association)
“Enzymatic Serum Ethanol Testing and Its Use As Forensic Evidence in a Criminal Case”, Lewisville, Texas, Dec 2014
Seminar: 6th Annual Jolly Roger Hal Jackson Memorial Criminal Law Seminar (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Blood Testing for the DUI Cases”, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Oct 2014
Seminar: DUI Defense Seminar (Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)
“Lab Errors”, Dallas, Texas, Sept 2014
Seminar: Monthly Luncheon CLE (Dallas Bar Association)
“Lab Errors”, Course Director, Houston, Texas, July 2014
Seminar: Advanced Criminal Law Seminar (State Bar of Texas)
“DWI Blood 101”, Course Director, Austin, Texas, July 2014
Seminar: Lone Star DWI (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Blinding Them With Science: DWI Blood Evidence”, Course Director, Arlington,
Texas, May 2014
“Blinding Them With Science: DWI Blood Evidence”, Salt Lake City, UT, April
2014
Seminar: Advanced DUI Seminar (Utah Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)
“Enzymatic Serum Ethanol Testing and Its Use As Forensic Evidence in a Criminal Case” – Oral Presentation of Abstract, Dallas, TX, March 2014
Seminar: 247th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition
“Team Innocent”, Columbus, OH, March 2014
Seminar: Advanced DUI Seminar (Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)
“Blinding Them With Science: DWI Blood Evidence”, Key West, FL, February
2014
Seminar: 8th Annual Diving Into a DUI Case Seminar (Lyons Legal Seminars) “Understanding Blood Alcohol Testing,” Ft. Worth, Texas, January 2014
Seminar: Tarrant County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association CLE (Tarrant County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Blinding Them With Science: DWI Defense”, Lubbock, TX, January 2014 Seminar: 34th Annual LCDLA Prairie Dog Lawyers Advanced Criminal Law
Seminar (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Understanding Blood Alcohol Testing”, Denton, TX, December 2013
Seminar: 6th Annual Jolly Roger Hal Jackson Memorial Criminal Law Seminar (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
Course Director & Seminar Faculty, Denver, CO, October 2013
Seminar: DUI Drug Cases & DRE: Mastering the Science & Trial Skills (Int’l Legal & Forensic Science Services)
Course Director & Seminar Faculty, Lubbock, TX, October 2013
Seminar: 1-Day Trial Skills: Defending a DWI with Breath/Blood Evidence (International Legal & Forensic Science Services, Inc.)
“Prepping and Trying a Blood Draw DWI Case”, McKinney, TX, September 2013 Seminar: 3CDLA DWI Nuts ‘n Bolts Seminar (Collin County Criminal Defense
Lawyers Association)
“Team Innocent”, Dallas, TX, August 2013
Seminar: DCDLA Monthly CLE (Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association) “McCarthy Cross”, Course Director, Dallas, TX, July 2013
Seminar: 1-Day Trial Skills: Defending a DWI with Breath/Blood Evidence (International Legal & Forensic Science Services, Inc.)
“Trial Skills for DWI Blood Cases”, Forney, TX, July 2013
“DWI Case Law Update: Blood Evidence”, Course Director, Dallas, TX, July 2013 Seminar: Advanced Criminal Law Course DWI Track (State Bar of Texas) “Blood & McNeely: A Status Update”, Ft. Worth, TX, May 2013
Seminar: TCCDLA Monthly CLE (Tarrant County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Working Blood Magic in a Vampire World”, Course Director, Arlington, TX May 2013
Seminar: DWI Defense Project (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association) “Mission Impossible: Discovery in DWI Blood Test Cases” & “Working Blood
Magic in a Vampire World”, Columbus, OH, March 2013
Seminar: Advanced DUI Seminar (Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)
“Team Innocent”, Columbus, OH, March 2013
Seminar: Annual Trial Skills Workshop (Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers – Faculty)
“Cross Examination in a Criminal Case”, Course Director, Miami, FL, February 2013
Seminar: Trial Skills Workshop (International Legal & Forensic Science Services, Inc.)
“Working Blood Magic in a Vampire World”, Key West, FL, February 2013 Seminar: 7th Annual Diving Into a DUI Case Seminar (Lyons Legal Seminars) “DWI Basics for the Non-Criminal Law Specialist”, Dallas, TX, December 2012 Seminar: DWI Panel (Dallas Bar Association)
“DWI Discovery &Trial Tactics for Blood Test Cases”, McKinney, TX, December 2012
Seminar: Monthly Meeting (Collin County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Teaching Blood Alcohol Testing to the Wal-Mart Shopper”, McKinney, TX,
November 2012
Seminar: Trying Blood Cases in Collin County (Collin County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Teaching Blood Alcohol Testing to the Wal-Mart Shopper”, Sugarland, TX,
November 2012
Seminar: Gideon’s Trumpet (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“DWI Blood Cases: A Primer” & “Teaching Blood Alcohol Testing to the Wal-Mart Shopper”, Albuquerque, NM, November 2012
“Teaching Blood Alcohol Testing to the Wal-Mart Shopper”, Tunica, MS, October
2012
Seminar: TACDL Annual DUI Seminar (Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)
Course Director & Faculty, Dallas, TX, September 2012
Seminar: Intoxilyzer 5000 Boot Camp (International Legal & Forensic Science Services, Inc.)
“DWI Blood Cases: A Primer”, Austin, TX, September 2012
Seminar: Monthly CLE (Austin Criminal Defense Lawyers Association) “Highway Through the Danger Zone: Cross Examination of the Arresting
Officer”, Austin, TX, August 2012
Seminar: Top Gun DWI (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association) Instructor & Co-Course Director, Dallas, TX, August 2012
Seminar: NHTSA SFST Practitioner Course (Platt & Associates)
“Defending a DWI Blood Test Case”, Course Director, San Antonio, TX, July 2012 Seminar: Advanced Criminal Law Seminar DWI Track (State Bar of Texas) “Building the Ultimate DUI Trial Notebook”, Monterrey, CA, June 2012
Seminar: 4th Annual DUI Defense Practice Institute (California Public Defenders Association)
“DWI Blood Cases: A Primer”, Tunica, MS, June 2012
Seminar: Betting on Justice XII (Arkansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)
“Battling Blood: Qualified Person? Sanitary Place?”, Dallas, TX, June 2012
Seminar: Monthly CLE (Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Battling Blood: Qualified Person? Sanitary Place?”, Course Director, Arlington,
TX, May 2012
Seminar: DWI Defense Project (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association) Seminar Faculty, Columbus, OH, March 2012
Seminar: First Annual Trial Skills Workshop (Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)
“Challenging Breath Tests”, Columbus, OH, March 2012
Seminar: Advanced DUI Seminar (Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)
“Discovery in DWI Blood Test Cases”, Austin, TX, December 2011
Seminar: DWI & Gas Chromatography (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Discovery in DWI Blood Test Cases”, San Antonio, TX, September 2011
Defense Lawyers Association & San Antonio Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Mock Cross Examination of the State’s Blood Expert”, Houston, TX, August 2011
Seminar: Top Gun DWI – Blood, Breath & Beyond (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Blood Suppression After the Robinson Case”, Dallas, TX, August 2011
Seminar: Monthly Meeting (Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association) “DWI Case Law Update”, San Antonio, TX, June 2011
Seminar: State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting
“The Intoxilyzer 5000 From the Defense Perspective”, Dallas, TX, May 2011
Seminar: DWI Technology Conference (Texas Center for the Judiciary)
“DWI Blood Cases: Discovery, Science & Strategy”, Arlington, TX, May 2011
Seminar: DWI Defense Project – What You Must Know to Win (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Discovery in DWI Blood Test Cases”, New Orleans, LA, April 2011
Seminar: Mastering Scientific Evidence in DWI Cases (National College for DUI Defense/Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Hospital Blood in DWI Accident Cases” & “How to Build a House of Doubt at Trial”, Columbus, OH, March 2011
Seminar: Advanced DUI Seminar (Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)
“Defending the DWI Blood Test Case”, McKinney, TX, April 2010
Seminar: Monthly CLE (Collin County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association) “DWI For the Non-Criminal Specialist”, Ft. Worth, TX, June 2010
Seminar: State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting “DWI Trial Tactics”, Nationwide Phone CLE, July 2010 Seminar: DWI Seminar (American Association for Justice) “Blood Testing in DWI Cases”, Dallas TX, March 2009
Seminar: Advanced DWI Seminar (Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)
“Blood Cases: Science, Strategy & Discovery”, Dallas, TX, May 2009
Seminar: DWI Defense Project (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association) “DWI Blood Case Discovery”, Dallas, TX, July 2009
Seminar: Advanced Criminal Law Seminar (State Bar of Texas) “Defending the Breath Test Case”, Plano, TX, January 2007
