Taught by people who do the work.

Daniel Dower is a Texas attorney with Burrows Law Group, where he has practiced since 2019. His litigation work centers on discovery, asset tracing, legal research, and negotiated financial settlements, which is the work that depends most on well-organized paralegal support: clean discovery responses, accurate inventories, and exhibits that hold up in a hearing.

Daniel holds a J.D. from SMU Dedman School of Law, where he was a Tsai Scholar at the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation, and an MBA from SMU, where he graduated with honors as a member of Beta Gamma Sigma. He is also a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst.

Before practicing law, Daniel spent more than two decades as a chief financial officer, managing accounting, tax filings, contracts, and the records of dozens of business entities. That background shapes how he teaches paralegals to read financial records, track documents, and keep a file in order. He is the author of two plain-English guides, Understanding Investments and Understanding the Corporate Transparency Act.

As NTPI's supervising attorney, Daniel oversees the curriculum and makes sure every class reflects what supervising attorneys actually expect from their paralegals.

Madison Duehr has worked in North Texas law offices since 2018 and knows the local procedures of Denton, Collin, Dallas, and Tarrant counties. She is a paralegal at Burrows Law Group, where she manages a high-volume litigation docket.

Her day-to-day work is the core of what NTPI teaches: drafting pleadings, discovery, inventories, final orders, and Rule 11 agreements; e-filing in courts across Texas; managing calendars and deadlines; coordinating hearings, mediations, and depositions; and building the trial binders and exhibits that hearings depend on. She has also analyzed financial records for property division and handled client billing and trust accounts, using practice-management tools such as Clio.

Madison started as a legal assistant and grew into a paralegal role, working at Goline & Roland Law Firm, PLLC and Dankesreiter & Emmet, LLP before joining Burrows. She is active in the local paralegal community and chairs the Marketing & Newsletter Committee of the Denton County Paralegal Association.

She wrote Modernly Legal: The Paralegal Playbook for Family Law under the pen name Maddie Alexandra. As NTPI's lead instructor, Madison brings the working paralegal's view of how cases actually move, from intake through trial, and teaches the habits that make a new paralegal useful on day one.