Honors and Awards:

• Elected to membership in two Inns of Court - the Moeller-Foltz Inn and the Garland-Walker Inn., Master, American Inns of Court
• Member of College of the State Bar since 2005., College of the State Bar of Texas
• "AV" Peer Review Rated, Martindale Hubbell, 2005
• Elected to American Law Institute, serving on the Member's Consultative Group for the Restatement of Trusts and the III Transnational Insolvency Project., Elected Member, American Law Institute, 2005

Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 2005

Bar/Professional Activity:

• HOUSTON BAR ASSOCIATION: Continuing Legal Education Committee 2006-2009, Seminar Subcommittee Chair 2008-2009; Chair of Institute CLE Committee 2009-2010.
• TEXAS STATE BAR: Voting member of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Committee 2000-2008. 
• American Inns of Court - Davis-Foltz Inn of Court and Garland-Walker Inn of Court.
•  AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE: Elected 2005, serving on the Member's Consultative Group for the Restatement of Trusts, 3rd., and the III Transnational Insolvency Project.
• AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION:. Chair, A.B.A. Young Lawyer Division Professionalism and Ethics Committee 2001-2002; Texas Young Lawyer Association Ethics and Professionalism Committee 2000-2001;Liaison to the Standing Committee on Professionalism 2000-2002; Liaison to the Commission on the Evaluation of the Rules of Professional Conduct 2001-2003.  Young Lawyer Delegate 1998-2006; Professional Development Team 2002-2003, 2004-2005; Editorial Board, Young Lawyer Magazine 2003-2004.  Business Bankruptcy Committee Subcommittee on Professional Ethics 2007-2008.

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Accepted several court-appointed pro-bono representations. 

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Presentation before the American Bar Association before the Spring Meeting in Denver on the proposed changes to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct issued by the Commission on the Evaluation of the Model Rules (Ethics 2000). , Speaker, Ethics 2000 and Your Practice, American Bar Association, 2002
• Presented with a panel, including a bankruptcy judge, on unique ethics issues present in bankruptcy cases. , Speaker and Author, Bankruptcy Ethics Issues, Houston Bar Association - Bankruptcy Section, 2003
• Spoke before the American Bar Association Mid-Year Meeting in Seattle, Washington on the ethics issues present in post-Enron corporate representation. , Author and Lecturer, Moral Bankruptcy - Ethics in the Face of Enron, American Bar Association, 2004
• Lectured at a Houston Bar Association Seminar on ethical representation of clients. , Author and Speaker, 15 Ethics Traps for Young Lawyers, Houston Bar Association, 2004
• Presentation to the State Bar of Texas Nonprofit Seminar on how to represent a non-profit institution, with an emphasis on ethics issues. , Author and Speaker, Representing Nonprofit Organizations, State Bar Of Texas, 2004
• Presentation before the mid-year meting of the American Bar Association  Young lawyer Division in Miami, FL. , Speaker and Author, 10 Things Every Lawyer Needs to Know about Bankruptcy Law., American Bar Association, 2005
• Presntation at the National Conference of the Young Lawyer Division of the American Bar Association in Louisville, Kentucky. , Author and Speaker, aking the High Ground: Ethical Traps for the Young Lawyer and How to Avoid Them, American Bar Association, 2005
• Presentation on the new bankruptcy procedural rules generated by the 2005 amendments to the Bankruptcy Code., Author and Presenter, New Bankruptcy Rules, American Inns Of Court, 2006
• Seminar on proposed changes to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct to the Houston Bar Association. , Speaker and Author, Changes to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct”, Houston Bar Association, 2006
• Presentation before the American Bar Association Mid-Year Meeting of the Young Lawyer Division. , Author and lecturer, Basic Transactional Law, American Bar Association, 2006
• Presentation on the new Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005., Speaker, Bankruptcy Reform Act for Everyone: Two Perspectives on the Bankruptcy Reform Act., Houston Bar Association, 2006
• Presentation on bankruptcy mediation issues with mediators for the Daviz-Foltz Inns of Court. , Bankruptcy Mediation Issues, American Inns Of Court, 2007
• BAPCPA Changes the Ethical Landscape for Consumer and Business Practitioners, Author, State Bar of Texas , 2007
• What Every Business Lawyer Needs to Know about Bankruptcy, Author and Lecturer, Houston Bar Association,, 2007
• Article on the effect of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 for the American Bar Association. Volume 4, Number 4, January 2007. , Author, The 2005 Bankruptcy Amendments: New Traps Emerge for the Casual Practitioner, The New Lawyer, A.B.A. GP/Solo Section Newsletter, 2007
• Articles include:  "Ethics Traps for Collection Lawyers" - Presenter/Author"Practical Techniques for Collecting from Hard-to-get Debtors and Corporate Debtors" -Presenter/Author, Moderator/Speaker/Author, Collecting Debts and Judgments Seminar , Lorman Education Services, 2008
• Speech before the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges on ethics of counsel's solicitation. , Speaker & Author, Committee Solicitation Issues - The Problems, Rules and Enforcers, American Bar Association, ABA/National Conference Of Bankruptcy Judges, 2009

Verdicts and Settlements:

• Bilstat v. Family Express (In re Bilstat), 314 B.R. 603 (Bankr. S.D. Tex. 2004) (successfully defended Family Express), 2004
• Cage v. Wyo-Ben, et. al. (In re Ramba, Inc.), 437 F.3d 457 (5th Cir. 2006), (successfully defended Wyo-Ben at trial level and on appeal)., 2006
• Tile Outlet and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 44130 (S.D. Tex. 2006) (Successfully represented Creditor's Committee by obtaining pre-briefing dismissal of appeals brought by Debtor and secured lender)., 2006
• ORIX Capital Mkts., L.L.C. v. Rafizadeh (In re Cyrus II P'ship), 358 B.R. 311 (Bankr. S.D. Tex. 2007).  Won dismissal of suit against client.  Opposing party was sanctioned over $13,000 for discovery abuse and subsequently voluntarily dismissed the suit with the stipulation that the Defendant also receive her Chapter 7 discharge, Plaintiff also stipulated that it was barred from pursuing the Defendant further based on limitations. With that result, the Court found no harm could come to Defendant, so she was denied standing to independantly pursue her counterclaim against the Plaintiff., 2007
• Energen Resources v. Golden Oil Co. 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 1393 (5th Cir. 2008).  Won appeal for Golden Oil, a Chapter 11 Debtor.  This was an appeal of a compromise embodied in a Chapter 11 Plan., 2008
• In re Particle Drilling Techs., 2009 Bankr. LEXIS 2151 (Bankr. S.D. Tex. July 29, 2009) -- Trial counsel for publicly-traded oilfield technology company in sale of patents free and clear of $300 Million in filed royalty claims.  Lead trial counsel successfully winning "cram-down" plan of reorganization to convey the patents without royalty claims., 2009

Educational Background:

• M.Div. Vanderbilt University Divinity School, 1996