Frank R. Southers

Frank R. Southers is well-qualified to write about the Texas Lawyer Disciplinary System used as a basis in the 5 legal thrillers because he served in San Antonio on the Grievance Committee for 10 years, the last 6 as Chairperson. Since then he has represented complainants, accused lawyers, and witnesses. He knows what he writes about.

As a Texas trial lawyer with the membership rank of Advocate in the American Board of Trial Advocates, he has tried at least 50 jury trials, which means he's experienced and knows his subjects well---as shown in the above-mentioned 5 legal thrillers and in the collections of "Lawyer Short Stories" and "More Lawyer Short Stories.".

Having served as the educational leader on a three-week legal tour of South Africa for US judges and lawyers, Mr. Southers educated himself about South African law and its history. Hence, he wrote "Escape from Apartheid," a historical novel featuring multiple stories (including some about Nelson Mandela) exposing the evil mechanizations of the authoritative and ultra-nationalistic Apartheid government.

For a Coming-of-Age novel, Mr. Southers interviewed thirteen-year-old Johnny Porter who, from age three was solely raised by his father, now dying of cancer; to safeguard Johnny from his wayward mother and her dope-dealing lover, his eighty-year-old father hides Johnny in an orphan's home. Johnny himself tells his real-life story in "The Home, a novel."

In "Persons of Interest," Mr. Southers' legal experience again appears in the murder mystery, Persons of Interest, designed to entertain, to educate, and to stimulate the reader's intellectual curiosity