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Full Name	David Van Os
Occupation	Attorney
Date Of Birth	Feb 19, 1950(1950-02-19)
Age	74
Birthplace	Kilgore
Country	United States
Birth City	Texas
Horoscope	Aquarius

David Van Os Biography

David Van Os is one of the most popular and richest Attorney who was born on February 19, 1950 in Kilgore, Texas, United States. David Van Os was born on the 19th of February 1950 at Kilgore in Texas and was the son of Seymour Van Os and Francene Van Os. He was a National Honor Society and National Merit Finalist at Kilgore High School. Participated in the University of Texas at Austin with a scholastic General Motors Scholarship, 1968-1972 and graduated from UT with honors in May 1972. Selection as University of Texas Junior Fellow in 1970, and enrolled into the University of Texas Law School with academic scholarshipin 1973. graduated of the University of Texas Law School with a J.D. Degree, 1976. Van Os was awarded the Human Rights Research Council Distinguished Research and Writing Award, UT Law School, 1974. Recipient of the 2005 Spine Award by the Backbone Campaign. He was a member of the Board of Directors and as Treasurer Assistant, Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation through appointment by the Texas Supreme Court, 1985-1995. In 1990, he was awarded with the President’s Citation for his achievements within Civil Rights by the NAACP. It was also the year that Texas Women’s Political Caucus named him “GOOD GUY OF THE YEAR” in 2002.

in 1998 Van Os was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate to be a judge in the Texas Supreme Court. He was defeated by Republican running mate Greg Abbott by a three-to-two margin. He ran for the seat in 2004 but once again ran for to run for a Supreme Court seat but lost to the newly appointed Republican running mate Scott Brister.

During his 2006 race for Attorney General of Texas, he vowed to fight for the people of Texas against the large monopolistic oil, insurance and media conglomerates, saying he’d “Fight them until hell freezes over and then fight them on the ice.” Much of his funding for his 2006 campaign came from contributions of $20 to $100 from low to medium income donors who met him during his 254 county whistlestop campaign tour or read about him on the blogs. His opponent, Republican incumbent Greg Abbott entered the race with over six million dollars in his campaign war chest.

In October 2006, Van Os proposed constitutional amendments he termed “Citizens’ Protection Amendments,” to protect Texans from continuing abuses of eminent domain and toll roads. Van Os proposed that the power of eminent domain be limited to reasons of public security and safety. He also proposed that building new toll roads or converting existing public roads to toll roads should only occur if the citizens in the county where the road is to be built or converted approve through passage of voter referendums. He joined other Texan Democratic candidates such as Hank Gilbert, Fred Head, and Maria Luisa Alvarado in speaking out against the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor at public hearings in the summer of 2006.

Van Os was the chief counsel to the Texas AFL-CIO from 1983 to 1989. He was awarded the title of Civil Libertarian of the Year, Central Texas ACLU, 1990. He was also the in-house District Counsel of CWA from 1981 to 1984. Communications Workers of America in Austin from 1981 until 1984. He continued to serve in the position of District Counsel at CWA when he co-founded a law firm privately in 1984. He is CWA’s District Counselor for the five states of District 6. His main focus of practice is in the field of traditional labor law and worker rights on behalf of unions. He was counsel to the legal profession and as a trial attorney for various unions on the local and international levels for over 33 years, which continues to the present time. Other significant customers of the labor department that have been represented by Van Os have included Steelworkers (USW), Carpenters (UBC), Electrical Workers (IBEW), Sheet Metal Workers, Fire Fighters, Musicians (AFM) and deputy Sheriffs in Bexar County Texas AFL-CIO, and many more. Van Os and his wife, Rachel, met on an CWA pickup line back in. Through the 80s and into the early 1990s, he represented the NAACP as well as LULAC in a string that involved controversial voting rights litigations and desegregation cases that involved those from the City of Austin and the Austin Independent School Board. In law school and during the beginning of his legal career Van Os was mentored in the field of law by famous Texas civil rights and labor lawyers Sam Houston Clinton (later a long-serving judge at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals) and David R. Richards. The initial three decades of his profession living in Austin until he, along with Rachel have relocated their growing family members to San Antonio in 1999. After the move from San Antonio he continued to be involved in prominent issues like the obtaining of a temporary restraining injunction for the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) which temporarily stopped the controversial closing of Kelly Air Force Base. Another client of note is Bill Burkett in the Killian documents scandal, later referred to as Rathergate in 2004. Van Os is still a vocal advocate for the constitutional rights of citizens as well as civil rights, as well as rights of workers as a lawyer and mediator. He is the proprietor and the managing counsel of the legal firm David Van Os & Associates, P.C., of San Antonio Texas. The law firm is comprised of two lawyers, Van Os and his partner Matt Holder, concentrating in Constitutional law as well as union-side labor law as well as civil rights.

David Van Os Net Worth

David Van Os is one of the richest Attorney from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Van Os 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

David Van Os (born 1950) is a Texas attorney who is being a part of the Democratic Party of Texas, and frequently a candidacy to run for office. Three times Democratic candidate for the state office He is self-styled “People’s Democrat” and labor attorney.

An activist in politics, Van Os attended his first Democratic State Convention in 1972 and continued to attend every convention until the year 2006. He was President, Northeast Austin Democrats, 1978-1980, Democratic Precinct Chairman

132, Travis County, 1981-1988 County Democratic Chairman, Travis County,

1996-1998 Chairman, North East Bexar County Democrats 2000-2003, Life member, NAACP Member and Legal Panelist, American Civil Liberties Union and a member of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement.

As the Democratic nominee for attorney general, Van Os took his campaign directly to the people. He pledged to visit all 254 counties in Texas during the 2006 election cycle. With his wife, Rachel Barrios-Van Os, who served as his campaign manager, he visited each courthouse and spoke on the courthouse square. His last five whistlestop were in Tarrant County on October 16, Dallas County on October 17, Harris County on October 18, Travis County on October 19 and his home county of Bexar on October 20. Local supporters joined him on the courthouse steps as he proclaimed his determination to “return Texas government back to the people” denouncing the “bought and paid for perversion of the American political process.” In Tarrant, truckdrivers passing on the street, acknowledged him by honking their horns when they saw the signs with his campaign message “Message to Big Oil — I’m coming after you.” During much of 2006 gasoline prices had soared to a record of over three dollars a gallon and dipped rapidly a month before the general election by at least a dollar a gallon. Many people suspected that the timing of the rise and fall was due to political manipulation. Supporters of Van Os funded billboards in many counties in Texas with the following message: “Message to Big Oil – I’m coming after you!” His opponent, Abbott, received considerable money from insurance companies. Van Os vowed to use the office of the attorney general, if elected, to enforce the anti-trust provisions of the Texas and U.S. constitutions, especially regarding insurance company pricing. His other billboard message during the 2006 attorney general’s race was: “Insurance Gougers – I’m coming after you!”

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Who is David Van Os Dating?

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