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Rex W. Manning, Associate Rmanning@Skv.Com 713.221.2350 Rex W. Manning, Associate [email protected] 713.221.2350 If you asked Rex Manning for words to lawyer by, he’d tell you the last thing the world needs is another boring, bloated legal brief. Vigorous writing is concise. Word limits are ceilings of last resort, not targets. So every word must tell—both efficiently and memorably. Mr. Manning learned the power of good writing from experience. He spent two years clerking for the Honorable Richard Allen Griffin on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Before that, he spent a year clerking for the Honorable Terrence G. Berg on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. As a law clerk, he encountered all levels of writing. And sure enough, it was the best writing that most often accompanied the best arguments. When he writes, then,argumentshis goal .is to pen something anyone could understand. He learned that objective from the Honorable Raymond Kethledge, under whose tutelage in law school he rebuilt his writing from the ground up. Writing might be Mr. Manning’s strongest suit, but it isn’t his only one. He’s a seasoned oral advocate too. In law school, for example, he presented over 40 judged oral arguments—including one in the Sixth Circuit. In college, he and his teammates took Michigan State University’s mock-trial team to its first and only National Championship Tournament. And in high school, Mr. Manning was an undefeated league champion in both policy debate and mock trial, as well as a state finalist in impromptu speaking. Before he was a law clerk, Mr. Manning was a litigation associate in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s Palo Alto office, where he created a pro bono partnership with the University of Michigan Law School’s Federal Appellate Litigation Clinic. As part of that partnership, he co-authored a petition for rehearing en banc in the Sixth Circuit and a petition for certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Manning earned his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and his B.A. from Michigan State University, where he graduated in three years. (He roots for Sparty, by the way.) EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE Michigan State University B.A., with honors, Political Theory Constitutional Democracy, 2012 University of Michigan Law School J.D., cum laude, 2015 Articles Editor, Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review Student Attorney, Federal Appellate Litigation Clinic Associate Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, 2015-2016 Law Clerk to the Hon. Terrence G. Berg, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 2016-2017 Law Clerk to the Hon. Richard A. Griffin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2017-2019 Associate Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, L.L.P., 2019-Present [email protected] (p) 713.221.2350 (f) 713.221.2320 717 Texas Ave #2800, Houston, TX 77002 ADMISSIONS State Bar of California No yet admitted to Texas Bar; practice supervised by a member of The State Bar of Texas U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California [email protected] (p) 713.221.2350 (f) 713.221.2320 717 Texas Ave #2800, Houston, TX 77002.
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