MIKE FARRIS is a 1983 cum laude graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law, where he was an associate editor on the Texas Tech Law Review and was inducted into the prestigious Order of the Coif. Mike joined the Dallas firm of Vincent Lopez Serafino Jenevein, P.C., as Of Counsel in 2010, where his practice includes complex commercial litigation as well as entertainment law, focusing on the movie and publishing industries.In addition to his law practice, Mike and his wife, Susan, also an attorney, run Farris Literary Agency, Inc. As an agent, Mike has placed several award-winning novels for publication, including "Balaam Gimble's Gumption" by Mike Nichols, winner of the Texas Institute of Letters John Bloom Humor Award, and Sheldon Russell's "Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush," winner of the Langum Prize for Excellence in American Historical Fiction. Mike also represents various university presses and has successfully placed subsidiary rights to their published books, including negotiating the sale of movie rights to producers and Hollywood studios.Mike is the 2014 Chair of the Dallas Bar Association's Sports and Entertainment Law Section, after also having served as Chair in 2012 and 2009 and Vice-Chair in 2011. He is the editor of the State Bar of Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Journal, and he is an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas in its Sports & Entertainment Management MBA program, where he serves on the Sports & Entertainment Advisory Board. He has taught trial advocacy as an adjunct professor at Texas Wesleyan University Law School and creative writing at Richland College in Dallas.Mike is much in demand as a presenter at writers' conferences around the country. As a regular presenter at the Screenwriting Conference in Santa Fe and the La Jolla Writers Conference, among others, he has taught seminars and led workshops on the art and craft of adapting source material into screenplays, cinematic storytelling, legal issues for writers, and common mistakes that writers make.