On good days, David González wakes up early, goes running, and when he returns home his four kids have eaten breakfast, cleared their plates to the dishwasher, and are quietly reading while waiting to go to school.

This never happens. Instead, most mornings are similar to the opening scene in Home Alone when everybody has overslept, nobody’s packed, and there’s absolutely no way they’re going to catch their flight. In matters of competency, David is severely deficient in getting kids to match their socks, put their dirty clothes in the hamper, and get in bed without 25 reminders.

For 20 years David has practiced criminal law in Austin with his wife, Corinne Sumpter, and a dedicated group of lawyers and social workers. His knowledge of federal and state criminal law is largely through his work with a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals in complex cases.

David is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Stanford Law School, and he is the recent recipient of the Federal Bar Association’s 2018 Advocate of the Year and the 2017 Austin Bar Association’s Professionalism Award. He has previously been recognized by the American Bar Association and the Austin Bar Association as young lawyer (under 40) of the year, and was appointed by the ABA to serve on Professor Barry Scheck’s committee analyzing collateral consequences of criminal convictions. He frequently is invited to train federal and state public defenders, and has taught hundreds of CLE programs to fellow criminal defense lawyers, prosecutors, and judges. He was an inaugural member of the board of directors of the Capital Area Private Defender Service, was appointed by the Supreme Court to serve on the Board of Disciplinary Appeals which oversees attorney disbarment and suspensions for the entire State of Texas, and serves on the executive committee of the Lloyd Lochridge Inn of Court. David has served as a special prosecutor for Travis County, Kendall County, Panola County, and the City of Cibolo. He is a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas and previously served on the District 9 grievance committee of the State Bar of Texas from 2012–2015.

In his free time, David teaches trial advocacy at the law school, ignores his doctor’s advice to lay off red meat, and routinely embarrasses his kids in public.