Honors and Awards:

• Featured on Texas Rising Stars list 2005, 2007-2011; named  among “Dallas' Best Lawyers” by D Magazine, 2005; named among “Dallas' Best Lawyers under 40,” D Magazine, 2006; Dallas Young Lawyers Association's Young Leaders Program, 2004-2005; Fellow, American Bar Association Section of Litigation, Young Lawyer Leadership Program, 2009-2011.

Bar/Professional Activity:

• American Bar Association, Section of Litigation leader
• Professional Liability Underwriting Society, Texas chapter steering committee member
• Former Texas Young Lawyers Association board member
• Former Dallas Association of Young Lawyers board member
• Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program
• Dallas Bar Association eMentoring Program
• Dallas Bar Association Lawyers In School Program

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Lambda Legal, Board Member, 2007-present
• Lambda Legal, Member National Leadership Council, 2006
• Lambda Legal, Co-Chair, DFW Leadership Committee, 2005-present
• Women's Business Network, General Counsel, 2002
• Big Brothers / Big Sisters, 1998-2001
• Child Abuse Prevention, Co-Chair, Voices for Children Breakfast 2007

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Panelist, Texas Lawyer’s Labor & Employment Roundtable, April 28, 2011
• Co-Author, “The Hot Seat: Ethics When In-House Counsel Testifies,” Dallas Bar Association, Headnotes, March 1, 2011
• Panelist, “Networking Nightmares: How Internet Social & Professional Networks are Risky Business, PLUS Texas Chapter CLE, September 2010
• Author, “Considerations and Challenges for Firms and Attorneys,” For the Defense, May 2010
• Presenter, “How Internet Social and Professional Networks Are Risky Business for Employees and Employers,” Dallas Area Paralegal Association, March 16, 2010
• Author, “A Young Lawyer’s Guide to the Viability of Arbitration,” ABA Section of Litigation Committee on Commercial & Business Litigation, Spring 2009
• Committee on Commercial & Business Litigation, Spring 2009 Speaker, “Subprime Crises: Understanding Liability and Impact on Underwriting,” PLUS Texas Chapter CLE, September 2008
• Co-Author and Speaker, “Keeping It Real: Making White Collar Defendants Blue Collar Friendly,” ABA Center for Continuing CLE Teleseminar, June 17, 2008
• Speaker, HRC Diversity Workshop on Gender Identity and Gender Expression, November 14, 2007
• Chair, Moderator and Panelist, Second Annual DAYL Diversity and Inclusion Forum, November 9, 2007
• Speaker, “Adopting Strategies to Minimize Professional Liability,” HalfMoon’s Minimizing Engineering Liability Exposure Seminar, November 8, 2007
• Moderator and Co-Chair, Dinner & Dialogue program sponsored by the DAYL Lawyers Promoting Diversity Committee, March 2006
• Regional editor, “Unfair Trade Practices: A Compendium of State Law,” printed by the Defense Research Institute Publications, Winter 2005
• Panelist, DAYL Roundtable Debate & Discussion, November 2005
• Co-Author, “Profiles in Diversity — More Than Gender and Race: A Case Study of How One Law Firm Markets the Diverse Backgrounds of its Attorneys,” October 2005
• Panelist, “Diversity & Business Development: A Panel Perspective,” Legal Marketing Association Southeastern Chapter’s City Group’s meeting, sponsored by Texas Lawyer, August 16, 2005
• Chair, moderator and panelist, First Annual Lambda Legal Diversity Forum, June 24, 2005
• Author, “Too Much Too Late: Unintended Consequences of Texas Securities Class-Action Reform,” Texas Lawyer, May 2005
• Speaker, “The Pitfalls of the New Office Cooler: Employers, E-mail and the Internet,” Hermes Sargent Bates, Employment Law Conference, 2005
• Co-Author, “Corporate Sleuthing: Surveillance of Employee Activity to Avoid Disclosure of Trade Secrets,” ABA Litigation Section Annual Conference, April 2005
• Speaker, “The One-Two Punch: Lobbying and Impact Litigation in the Fight for Civil Rights,” ACLU, February 2005

Verdicts and Settlements:

• Obtained multiple favorable jury verdicts, including in employee commission and lender liability disputes.
• Obtained multiple favorable judgments in bench trials, including an award of over $150,000 in attorneys’ fees for the filing of a frivolous lawsuit against a church and in a commissions suit on behalf of a public relations executive.
• Built successful cases on behalf of local and national businesses to defend and prosecute non-compete/trade secret actions for securities brokers and broker-dealers. Work included obtaining and defending against temporary restraining orders and lengthy evidentiary preliminary injunction hearings.
• Obtained summary judgment for an accounting firm facing a multimillion-dollar auditing malpractice case in which plaintiffs claimed the accounting firm engaged in fraud and conspiracy with audit customers.
• Obtained multiple summary judgments in employment cases in favor of an employer, including suits for age and disability discrimination.
• Favorably resolved half-billion dollar products liability suit arising from a pipeline rupture after assembling an exemplary team of defense experts and filing a dispositive motion that likely would have negated some or all of plaintiff’s claims as a matter of law.