S. Rafe Foreman

"S. Rafe Foreman is the 2021 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award presented each year at the prestigious Educating Advocacy Teachers conference held at Stetson University School of Law.
Rafe, a partner in Hutchison & Foreman PLLC, has been representing people who have been wrongfully accused, discriminated against, and/or physically and emotionally injured, since 1988. He is a trial lawyer, consultant and professor, and he tries cases involving criminal defense, plaintiffs’ personal injury, civil rights, employment, discrimination, wrongful death, excessive force and 1983 actions. Rafe is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in the area of criminal law since 1994. He is licensed to practice law in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Missouri and has jury verdicts in each of these states, and has litigated cases in Louisiana, South Dakota, Colorado, California, Washington, Florida and Arizona just to name a few. Susan Hutchison, his law partner, and Rafe have obtained many record setting jury verdicts throughout Texas and the throughout the country. They have had multiple cases pending before the United States Supreme Court. Rafe has been voted as a SUPER LAWYER for many years in Texas. Rafe is both a retired and current law professor. He has been on the Trial Lawyer’s College Faculty for 21 years and remains an adjunct Professor of Law at Stetson Law. Rafe retired from UMKC Law and the Douglas Stripp Endowed Chair in Advocacy after leading them to highest advocacy ranking in the school’s history. Rafe created the only jury selection trial competition in the country known as the Show Me Challenge. He holds an undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University and a law degree from Texas Tech University School of Law. Rafe is passionate about rectifying discrimination and has a few jury trials left in him yet.

Texas Tech University School of Law

Doctor of Jurisprudence/Juris Doctor (J.D.)

1988

Texas A&M University - College Station

B.S. (1985) | Agricultural Education

1982 - 1985

Honors: Cum laude

Partner

Hutchison & Foreman PLLC

2019 - Current

Chair of Advocacy & Distinguished Professor of Law

University of Missouri Kansas City

2011 - 2019

Partner

Foreman, Lewis & Hutchison, PLLC

2004 - 2011

Communication Energy: Decoding Voir Dire (book)

Wild Lark Publishing

2023

Qualified Immunity: A Legal Fiction That Has Outlived Utility

Ohio Northern University Law Review Vol. 48, P. 504

September, 2022

Sr Faculty and presenter: Trial Lawyers College-Voir Dire Course, Joint TLC and Drexel Law School Thomas Kline Advocacy Center, Philadelphia, PA

February 17, 2022

Trial Lawyers College.

Presenter from 2/17-20, 2022

Oxford Study Abroad Program, Stetson Law Study Abroad, St Hughes College of Oxford University

July 25, 2022

Stetson University College of Law

July 26 - August 5, 2022 Speaker and Presenter two week program

Goldman Lecture Series, Ohio Northern School of Law, Ada, Ohio

April 6, 2022

Ohio Northern School of Law

Delivered the Goldman lecture live and teleconference.

Winning In Voir Dire, Misssouri Bench Bar Conference, Springfield, MO

September 15, 2022

State Bar of Misssouri

Criminal Law

Texas State Bar

1996

Lifetime Achievement Award

EATS (Advocacy Stetson Law)

2021

State Bar of Missouri  # 66811

Member

2012 - Current

State Bar of Oklahoma  # 17735

Member

1997 - Current

State Bar of New Mexico  # 4161

Member

1989 - Current

Activities: Trial Lawyer in New Mexico since 1989.

Texas State Bar  # 07255200

Member

1988 - Current

Missouri

The Missouri Bar

ID Number: 66811

Since 2014

New Mexico

State Bar of New Mexico

ID Number: 4161

Since 1989

Oklahoma

Oklahoma Bar Association

ID Number: 17735

Since 1997

Texas

State Bar of Texas

ID Number: 07255200

Since 1988

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