Edward A Mallett
Edward Mallett is a native Houstonian. He is a graduate of Lamar High School, Dartmouth College, and the University of Texas, School of Law. He has served as President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, President of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers and President of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association. Ed has served as a Special Prosecutor, appointed by the President of the State Bar of Texas. He has been Board Certified as a criminal lawyer for over 30 years.
Ed returned to Houston after taking the Bar Examination, and has been in private practice ever since. His career in criminal defense started with court appointments. His early successes quickly led to retained cases, including serious felonies in state and federal courts. He is admitted to practice law by the State of Texas, the State of New York and the United States Supreme Court.
Ed's academic career also includes attending the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, ten years on the faculty of the University of Houston School of Law, fifteen years teaching at the National Criminal Defense College and more than 100 publications and presentations on criminal law to bar associations and law students throughout the United States.
Areas of Practice
- Criminal Defense
- Asset Forfeiture
Certified Legal Specialties
- Criminal Law, State Bar of Texas, Board of Legal Specialization
Bar Admissions
- Texas
- New York
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
- U.S. District Court District of Arizona
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Education
- The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas
- J.D. - 1970
- Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
- B.A. - 1967
Published Works
- Convocation Issue, "Whatever Happened to Willie Horton?", The Champion Magazine, Sept./Oct., 2000
- "Death Row Defense", The Champion Magazine, Aug., 2000
- "Prison Mail", The Champion Magazine, Dec., 2000
- "The Race Card", The Champion Magazine, Nov., 2000
- "Discovery", The Champion Magazine, June, 2001
- "Poverty and Death", The Champion Magazine, May, 2001
- "Going Home", The Champion Magazine, August, 2001
- "Sex Offender Registration", The Champion Magazine, March, 2001
- "International Affairs", The Champion Magazine, July, 2001
- "District attorney's office looking into Russell Yates", Reporter-News Online: Texas News, March, 2002
- "DA: Yates' Husband Not criminally Responsible", WRAL.com, June, 2002
- "Guidelines Stiffened for Selling Ecstasy", SFGate.com, March, 2001
- "Ecstasy Selling Penalties Stiffened", CBS News.com, March, 2001
- "DNA Evidence is Chipping Away at a Long-Standing Legal Principle - a Time Limit for Justice - in Sexual Assault Cases", Americaonviolence.org, July, 2001
- "Both Sides Batten Down for Ashcroft Hearing", Seacoastonline.com, January, 2001
- "Bush Call to Fund Capital Defense Puzzling", NCADP, February, 2005
- "Hearing Today in Colombian Arms Case", Insidecostarica.com, May, 2003
- "New York Lawyers' Group has Standing to Challenge Assigned Counsel Rates", defgen.state.vt.us, January, 2001
- "Echols Got Short Shrift, Lawyer Says", Arkansas Democrat - Gazette, March, 2001
- Presenter, "Raising Penalties for MDA", United States Sentencing Guidelines Commission, March, 2001
Classes/Seminars
- Course Director, "Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Law", Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2010
- Faculty, National Criminal Defense College
- Faculty, University of Houston, School of Law
- Course Director, State Bar of Texas, Advanced Criminal Law Course, 1986
- Faculty, State Bar of Texas, Advanced Criminal Law Course
- Judicial Recusal and Disqualification, NORML, Missouri Bar Association, St. Louis, Missouri, 2006
- Evidence: The Facts and Only the Facts, TCDLA, Houston, Texas, 2005
- The Grand Jury, TCDLA, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005
- Cross Examination: Art, Theory and Practice, TCDLA, Dallas, Texas, 2004
- The Grand Jury and Privileges, State Bar of Texas, 2004
- Dealing with Judges: Love'em or Leave'em, NACDL, Spring Seminar, 2004
- Trial Evidence, NCDC, Macon, Georgia, 2004
- Trial Evidence: Making and Meeting Objections, TACDL, Nashville, Tennessee, 2000
Honors and Awards
- Selected for "The Best Lawyers in America"
- "Texas Monthly Super Lawyers"
- H Houston Magazine's Best Lawyers in Houston
- National Directory of Criminal Lawyers
- Fellow, American Board of Criminal Lawyers
- Life Fellow, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Educational Institute
- Life Fellow, Houston Bar Foundation
- H-Texas, Houston's Top Lawyers for the People, 2010
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Foundation for Criminal Justice, President, 2005 - 2010
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, President, 2000 - 2001
- Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, President, 1988 - 1989
- Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association, President, 1982 - 1983
- American Board of Criminal Lawyers, Fellow
- Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Educational Institute, Life Fellow
- Houston Bar Foundation, Life Fellow
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Life Member
- Texas Bar Foundation, Life Member
- National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Life Member, Legal Committee
- International Criminal Defense Bar, Member
Fraternities/Sororities
- Phi Delta Phi
