James Otis Skinner

Jim Skinner is a 20+ year law enforcement veteran and former prosecutor who brings vast investigative knowledge and experience to a law firm that uses a multi-disciplinary approach in providing quality legal services. Throughout his law enforcement career, Skinner received extensive training and accumulated years of experience in narcotics enforcement, complex white-collar crime, public corruption, violent crimes and homicide investigations. After receiving his Juris Doctorate from the University of Houston Law Center in 2001, Skinner worked as a trial lawyer with Michael Pezzulli and Chris Barnes before becoming an Assistant District Attorney and Special Prosecutor for the Collin County Criminal District Attorney's Office. In 2008, Mr. Skinner re-entered the private sector where he consulted for complex civil litigators and corporate entities on the discovery and investigation of financially motivated criminal activity. In 2011, Skinner served as Collin County's Second Assistant District Attorney and Chief of the Special Prosecution Division before returning to the Firm.

Skinner is a graduate of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center's Fraud and Financial Investigations Training Program, the Advanced White Collar Crime Training Program, the Telecommunications Fraud Training Program, MCTFT's International Money Laundering Training, the FBI's Narcotics Related Financial Investigative Techniques Training Program, the DEA's Basic Narcotics/Dangerous Drug Enforcement School and numerous other programs related to the discovery and investigation of complex financial crime and organized criminal activity.