[4][5] He represented Sherron Watkins, the former Enron vice president who helped shed light on details of the company's collapse in 2001.
[5][8] Another Hilder client was the whistle-blower who was sued by his former employer News America Marketing when he testified about the company's anticompetitive practices.
Swearingen had long insisted he was innocent and his execution was stayed in 2013 through the efforts of Hilder and Rytting while he sought DNA testing of crime scene evidence.
Before entering private law practice, Hilder was the attorney-in-charge of the Justice Department's Houston office of the Organized Crime Strike Force.
He was also an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Texas with the Presidential Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.