Jeremy Counseller

Dean Jeremy Counseller, MBA ’00, JD ’00, The Abner V. McCall Chair of Evidence Law at Baylor and member of Baylor Law School’s faculty since 2003, assumed the deanship on July 1, 2024. An accomplished Baylor Lawyer, he graduated with honors from Baylor Law in 2000. He was actively involved in the Baylor Law Review, the Order of the Barristers, and the interscholastic moot court and mock trial teams. In addition to his law degree, he earned an MBA from Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business and graduated summa cum laude with a BA from Stephen F. Austin State University.

After completing law school, Dean Counseller served as a law clerk for the Honorable Reynaldo G. Garza of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. As an associate in the trial section, he joined the private practice at Bracewell & Patterson, LLP (now Bracewell, LLP) in Houston, Texas, as an associate in the trial section. Additionally, Dean Counseller worked as an Assistant Criminal District Attorney in McLennan County, Texas, where he prosecuted misdemeanors and felonies.

Dean Counseller teaches Civil Procedure and is part of Baylor Law’s Practice Court Program faculty. He has authored articles and presented papers on various evidentiary and procedural issues. He co-authors four books: Handbook of Texas Evidence, Texas Commercial Causes of Action, Texas Trial Procedure and Evidence, and, most recently, Civil Procedure: In Focus. In 2006, the President of the State Bar of Texas appointed him to serve on the Administration of the Rules of Evidence Committee, where he helped to restructure the Texas Rules of Evidence. He is the Contributing Evidence Editor of the State Bar of Texas General Practice Digest.

Dean Counseller served as the director of the Baylor Law Academy of the Advocate in St Andrews from 2013 to 2024,  and he previously served as Baylor University’s Faculty Athletics Representative to the Big 12 Conference.

Dean Counseller was selected to receive Baylor University’s Outstanding Faculty Award for Teaching for the 2021-2022 academic year. Baylor University’s Outstanding Faculty Awards recognize the best all-around professors based on teaching capabilities, research achievement, effective committee service, time spent with students, and civic and church involvement. This is the second time Baylor University has recognized Dean Counseller’s teaching. In 2007, the University designated him an Outstanding Faculty member as a tenure-track professor.