Gary Gober (The Gober Law Firm, Nashville, TX) is a Board Certified civil trial specialist, nationally known as an inspiring teacher of trial lawyers in the field of trial advocacy. Mr. Gober has been honored by the Southern Trial Lawyers Association with the Professor W. McKinley Smiley for excellence in teaching trial advocacy in 2002; the Warhorse Award in 2004 as a top courtroom advocate; and the "Mel" Award of the Melvin M. Belli Society, given to a teacher, advocate and giant of the trial bar in 2006.