Experience
Raman has first-chaired over 30 criminal trials to judge and jury, winning acquittals in her first eight jury trials. She has represented clients in cases ranging from Driving While Intoxicated to Murder. Raman brings a deep commitment to issues affecting low-income people to the firm. She has served low-income people both as an assistant public defender in Dallas County and as an attorney at Texas Appleseed, where she spearheaded efforts to launch the nation’s first public defender office dedicated to indigent persons with mental illness.
Professional Qualifications & Affiliations
Education: University of Texas at Austin (B.A. in PLAN II with honors and with special honors in English, 1991); New York University School of Law (J.D., 1995). Finalist and recipient of the Albert Podell Award for Best Oralist in the Orison S. Marden Moot Court Competition, 1994-1995.
Clerkships: Briefing Attorney for Judge Lawrence Meyers, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 1995-1997; Law Clerk to Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn, Northern District of Texas, 2000-2001.
Certifications: Standardized Field Sobriety Testing Practitioner - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2008.
Member: State Bar of Texas, State Bar of California, Travis County Women Lawyers Association.
Publications & Presentations
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What To Do When, Private Reception, October 2008.
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Think Backwards: A Guide to Turning the Criminal Justice System on Its Head and Slow Down: Working with Clients with Mental Illness at the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer Associations Continuing Legal Education Conference entitled "Representing Mentally Impaired Clients," October 2008.
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Co-author, Texas Fair Defense Act Implementation, Report No. 1, Quality of Initial County Plans Governing Indigent Defense in Adult Criminal Cases, 2002.
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Primary author, first edition, Mental Illness, Your Client and the Criminal Law, a Handbook for Attorneys Who Represent Persons with Mental Illness, 2005.
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Co-author, Editorial, Dallas Morning News, Jails cope poorly with the mentally ill, 2002.
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Co-author, Editorial, Dallas Morning News, Texas takes significant step in indigent defense, 2002.
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Author, Editorial, Dallas Morning News, A drugged defendant can’t participate in defense, 2003.
Community
Raman is President of the Board of the Texas Fair Defense Project.
Off-The-Record
Raman took a year off between her first and second years of law school to work for six months and then used her savings to backpack around India for six months. She traveled from the northwest state of Punjab, where her parents were born and raised, to the southern tip of Kanyakumari, and many points in between.
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Raman Gill, Attorney
Email:
rgill@sg-llp.com
Phone:
512
-381-9955
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