Honors and Awards: Listed in The Best Lawyers in America every year since 2006

Special Licenses/Certifications: Licensed in Oklahoma - 1983; Licensed in Texas -1992

Bar/Professional Activity: State Bar of Texas, Bankruptcy Section, Secretary, 2003 to 2004; Vice President-Professional Education, 2004 to 2005

Scholarly Lectures and Writings: Publications: "ASARCO: The Estimation of Environmental Claims," Bankruptcy Law360, January 28, 2009 (Mary M. Gregory, Lori A. Kujawski, co-authors); "Buyers Beware When Buying Assets From Troubled Companies," Houston Business Journal, May 6-12, 2005 (Jeremy C. Ouchley, co-author); "Fiduciary Duties of Directors," Texas Bar Journal, January 2004 (Mary M. Gregory, co-author); "How to Prepare For and Survive a Producer's Bankruptcy Filing: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You," Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, Vol. 44, 1998 (Mary M. Gregory, co-author).  Speeches and Presentations:  "Environmental Claims in Bankruptcy: Reconciling the Conflict," 26th Annual Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Conference, The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, November 2007; Moderator, 24th Annual Advanced Business Bankruptcy Course, State Bar of Texas, Austin and Dallas, May and July 2006; Panelist, The Yukos Bankruptcy, International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation Conference, San Antonio, November 2005; "Insurance Issues in Bankruptcy," American Bar Association, Business Bankruptcy Committee, Mass Tort and Environmental Claims Subcommittee, Nashville, October 2004; "Bankruptcy Appellate Issues," 20th Annual Farm, Ranch and Agri-Business Bankruptcy Institute, Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, September 2004 (with Mary M. Gregory); "Effective and Ethical Representation of a Company in the Zone of Insolvency," Representing the Private Business Entity, South Texas College of Law, Houston, December 2003

Representative Clients: Representation of the debtor or a significant creditor in the following cases:  ASARCO LLC - counsel in the chapter 11 case of this integrated copper mining, smelting, and refining company; SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc. - representation of bidder in connection with auction by publicly held debtor for convertible debt financing; Gazpromneft - counsel on a multibillion-dollar bankruptcy filing by Yukos Oil Company; Halliburton Company - counsel for Halliburton in the proposed prepackaged bankruptcies of its Dresser and Kellogg Brown & Root subsidiaries, and creation of section 524(g)/105 trusts to address asbestos and silica liabilities; Imperial Sugar Company - counsel for debtor in a prenegotiated bankruptcy in Delaware; McDermott International - counsel for parent in asbestos-related chapter 11 cases of its wholly owned subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox; DynCorp - counsel for parent in the prepackaged asbestos-related reorganization of subsidiary Fuller-Austin Insulation Co.; Insilco - reorganization of diversified manufactures of specialty component and consumer products, including settlement of $9 billion in environmental claims

Educational Background: B.A., economics and mathematics, University of Minnesota at Morris, 1980