Perry Cockerell serves as the President of the Lone Star Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association. He was elected to that position by the board in 2005 and began serving in April 2006. He was confirmed by a vote of the general membership at its annual meeting on March 23, 2007. 

In his professional career he has been a trial attorney and partner with the firm of Cantey Hanger LLP for over 25 years serving in both the Dallas and Fort Worth offices. He handles general commercial and real estate litigation across the state as well as in state and federal courts and appeals. He has argued in the Texas court of appeals, Texas Supreme Court and the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has been board certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1992. 

He is  a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Dallas Bar Association, Tarrant County Bar Associations, the Dallas Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section and Tarrant County Bankruptcy Bar Association and Texas Land Title Association.  In the past he has served as president and vice-president of the Tarrant County Bankruptcy Bar Association. From 1998 to 2000 he served as an Adjunct Professor at Texas Wesleyan University School of  Law where he taught Texas Pre-Trial Procedure and Trials and Appeals.

He was admitted to practice law in Texas in 1981. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas.

His published works are:   

· Cockerell, Bartlett, A Government Contract and Bankruptcy Law Conundum: Interpretation of the   Anti-Assignment Act and Related Manners, Vol. 43 The Procurement Lawyer No. 1, Fall 2007

· Repeat Bankruptcy Filers Face Changes to Automatic Stay, The Texas Lawyer, January 2006

· The Motion in Limine in Bankruptcy Litigation, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, March 2005

· Ungerman, Cockerell, Chapter 8, Creditors' Committee's, Bankruptcy Reform Act Manual, Commercial Law League of America, 2d Ed., 1982

· Bubany, Cockerell, Excluding Criminal Evidence Texas Style: Can Private Searches Poison the Fruit, 12 Tex. Tech. Law Review 611, 1981

He may be contacted at pcockerell@canteyhanger.com.