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Bickerstaff <br />Heath Delgado Acosta LLP <br />Attorney Overview <br />Sydney W. Falk, Jr. <br />3711 S. MoPac Expressway, Phone: 512-472-8021 <br />Building One, Suite 300 Fax: 512-320-5638 <br />Austin, Texas 78746 Email: sfalk@bickerstaff.com <br />Practice Areas <br />Syd is one of the firm's senior redistricting attorneys. He has substantial <br />♦ Voting Rights & Redistricting <br />experience in redistricting, having served as a redistricting attorney or team <br />♦ Civil Litigation <br />leader on dozens of redistricting projects in 1991, 2001, and 2011. He has <br />♦ Contracts & Procurement <br />been responsible for redistricting by Texas local government entities of all <br />♦ General Counsel <br />types, including counties, cities, school districts, and special districts, <br />including in the 2001 redistricting cycle, work on the redistricting of <br />♦ Open Government <br />Missouri City, Bexar County, Dallas County, Tarrant County, Dallas ISD, <br />Environmental <br />Austin ISD, and dozens of others. In the 2011 cycle, he represented (among <br />♦ Cities <br />others): the cities of Colorado City, Lockhart, Bryan, Brenham, and <br />r Counties <br />Stockdale; Bexar, Wilson, Brazos, Waller, Llano, and Schleicher counties; and <br />♦ Special Districts <br />Bryan ISD. <br />Education <br />Syd also has experience handling voting rights litigation, both through his <br />work on cases handled by the firm and as a former Fifth Circuit briefing <br />University of Texas Law (J.D., <br />attorney. He defended Dallas County and Bexar County in lawsuits <br />1984) <br />challenging abolishment of justice precincts (from which JPs and constables <br />University of Texas (Ph.D. <br />are elected) -- the counties prevailed in those cases. He was co -counsel with <br />Astronomy [Theoretical <br />Bob Heath in the Chen v. City of Houston case, and participated with other <br />Astrophysics] 1974) <br />firm attorneys in the 1991 Campos v. City of Houston litigation -- the City of <br />Rice University (B.A. Physics, <br />Houston prevailed in those cases. More recently, he defended Bexar County <br />1969; M.S. Space Science <br />in a case challenging the County's elimination of a Justice of the Peace <br />1972) <br />position — that case settled and the abolition of the JP position stood. <br />Admissions <br />Prior to obtaining his law degree, Syd received a Ph.D. in theoretical <br />Supreme Court of Texas, 1984 <br />astrophysics from the University of Texas at Austin, and performed post- <br />doctoral work at CalTech and the University of Chicago. He was an Assistant <br />U.S. Supreme Court <br />Professor of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin for four years, <br />U.S. Court of Appeals for the <br />and a science consultant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1980- <br />Fifth and Ninth Circuits <br />1986. His background in mathematics and statistics is valuable in analyzing <br />U.S. District Courts for the <br />relevant redistricting statistics and the expert testimony in voting rights <br />Northern, Southern, Eastern <br />cases. <br />and Western Districts of Texas <br />www.bickerstaff.com <br />Austin El Paso Houston McAllen <br />