Mr. Bickel is a co-founding and co-managing partner of Bickel & Brewer.
Since its founding in 1984, Bickel & Brewer has become recognized as among the most creative and successful commercial litigation firms in the nation. With offices in Dallas and New York, the firm exclusively handles bet-your-business litigation - matters that involve substantial financial and business exposure, cutting-edge legal issues or significant public policy questions.
Mr. Bickel has represented businesses in various legal disciplines, including hospitality law, antitrust and trade, commercial real estate, insurance, intellectual property, oil and gas, trusts, e-commerce and white collar crime. He has represented clients in courts throughout the United States and around the world. He also plays a leading role in the management of the Bickel & Brewer Storefront, the community-service affiliate he co-founded in 1995 to provide legal services to those in need.
Mr. Bickel is a frequent writer on issues relating to his firm's unique brand of advocacy. He is a renowned public speaker on many issues affecting the legal profession and is a driving influence behind Bickel & Brewer's past Hospitality and Patent Law Seminars. Mr. Bickel also is a founding partner of the firm's charitable foundation, the Bickel & Brewer Foundation. In support of the Foundation, Mr. Bickel is a founding member of the advisory board of the Bickel & Brewer Future Leaders Program, an academic and leadership development program that benefits students from a lower socio-economic demographic of the Dallas Independent School District.
Outside of the firm, Mr. Bickel is on the executive committee of Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, a fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, a life fellow in the Dallas Bar Foundation, and a member of the Citizens for a Qualified Judiciary and the Markey-Wigmore Chapter of the Inns of Court. In addition, Mr. Bickel has served several terms as a trustee of the West Point Association of Graduates.
Mr. Bickel received his bachelor of science degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1970. Upon graduation, he served a three-year assignment as an infantry officer in a Ranger battalion of the United States Army, which included a tour in West Germany as an aide-de-camp for Lieutenant General Charles J. Simmons. Mr. Bickel received his juris doctor degree from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in l976.
While in law school, Mr. Bickel was president of the Student Bar Association (1975-1976) and a chief justice for the Moot Court Board, and was elected to the Barristers, a scholastic honor society. Mr. Bickel is a member of the American Bar and the Dallas Bar Associations (Litigation Section), the State Bar of Texas (chairman, Litigation Committee of the Environmental and Natural Resource Law Section), and the New York State Bar.
Mr. Bickel is admitted to practice before a number of federal district courts, the Fifth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the United States Supreme Court.
From 2003-2010, Mr. Bickel was voted a "Texas Super Lawyer" in an annual survey of his peers published in Texas Monthly magazine. In 2005 and 2006, he was recognized in this same survey as one of the "Top 100" attorneys practicing in the state of Texas. In addition, in 2005, Mr. Bickel was named a "Best Lawyer in Dallas" in a survey of his peers published in D Magazine.
