About Dan Wyde, Board-Certified Texas Criminal Law Attorney

Wyde & Associates PLLC is a Dallas-based law firm focused on Texas criminal record clearing. The firm is led by Dan Wyde, an attorney Board Certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, with more than 35 years of experience on every side of the Texas criminal courtroom.

Every side of the Texas criminal courtroom

Most attorneys see a criminal case from one chair. Dan Wyde has worked from three. Over a career spanning more than three decades, he has served as a judge, as a prosecutor, and as a criminal defense attorney in Texas courts. That combination matters in record-clearing work, because an expunction or nondisclosure petition succeeds or fails on details that only show up if you have stood in each of those roles: how a district attorney's office reviews a petition, how a judge reads an order before signing it, and how a defense filing has to be built to survive both.

Board Certified in Criminal Law

Dan Wyde is Board Certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization — a distinction held by only a small fraction of Texas attorneys. Board certification requires substantial courtroom experience, peer review, and a rigorous examination in the specialty area. It is the state's formal recognition that an attorney has demonstrated special competence in criminal law.

A focused record-clearing practice

Wyde & Associates concentrates on the two Texas remedies that clear a criminal record, plus the federal cleanup work that often has to follow:

• Expunction — the destruction of an arrest record under Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 55A.
• Nondisclosure — the sealing of a record from public view under Government Code Chapter 411.
• FCRA coordination — disputing private background-check companies that keep reporting a record after the court order has already cleared it.
• Assault Family Violence defense — the hardest category of charge to clear, where the goal is a result that keeps record relief available.

The firm files in all 254 Texas counties, so a client does not need a separate local lawyer to handle hearings or service of process anywhere in the state.

How the firm works

Pricing is flat-fee and quoted in writing before any work begins — no hourly billing and no surprise invoices. The eligibility review is free: the firm runs a background check, maps every charge to its correct clearing pathway, and gives an honest answer about what is clearable and what is not. Every petition is reviewed and signed by an attorney before it is filed, and clients have direct access to their attorney rather than only a paralegal.