General Commercial Litigation

• Won a confidential, 7-figure international arbitration award in New York City on behalf of an e-discovery vendor, with Luke Ott and Lauren Yarborough.

• Won a complete defense verdict for the Dun Huang Plaza Association, which manages an iconic shopping center in Houston’s Chinatown, alongside Michael Killingsworth and Kyle Poelker of AZA. After a two-day trial, the jury deliberated for less than an hour before returning a verdict of no fraud in favor of several volunteer board members. 

• Obtained a writ of attachment, a warehouse full of valuable chemicals, and a $215,000 cash advance on the judgment one week after filing claims against recipients of a client’s property, with Luke Ott and Lauren Yarborough.

• Obtained a verdict for more than double the unpaid amount of a fraudulently induced contract, with Luke Ott and Lauren Yarborough.

• Obtained a “walk away” settlement for 11 defendants with no counterclaims on the first day of trial, where the plaintiff sought $2.5 million in damages, with Ben Foster, Web Beard, and Lauren Yarborough.

• Obtained temporary restraining order and temporary injunction to stop partners in an oil-and-gas company from expelling the company’s founder, with Sanja Muranovic and Luke Ott.

Employment Litigation

• Won a $3.4 and a $1.4 million dollar arbitration awards for a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) firm against former investment advisor representatives for breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty.

• Won a total defense verdict in “60 seconds” in a sexual harassment and retaliation case, on behalf of a Houston custom homebuilder, with Sanja Muranovic and Luke Ott.

• Won injunctions on behalf of a Houston insurance agency against a former employee who was violating non-solicitation obligations.

• Obtained “unsubstantiated” findings in three related internal investigations in the Texas Medical Center.

Data Privacy

• Appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Interim Steering Committee of the In re Meta Pixel Tax Filing Cases.

• Selected for the joint prosecution team of the Google Analytics Tax Filing Cases.

• Obtained a confidential settlement in a national data privacy case.

• Obtained a confidential settlement in a local data breach case.

Personal Injury

• Obtained favorable confidential settlement for defendant trucking company in West Texas.

• Resolved car-accident case for defendant without payment to plaintiff.

• Personal counsel to major oil-and-gas services companies in coverage and settlement disputes with insurers.

• Currently handling several high-value trucking cases in South and West Texas.

Property and Construction Disputes

• Obtained a confidential out-of-court settlement against a boat dock, swimming pool, and landscaping contractor.

• Obtained a confidential, out-of-court settlement against a major commercial landscaping contractor.

• Won dismissal of two separate cases against a prominent Houston realtor over allegedly undisclosed flooding history.

• Won dismissal of a case brought on behalf of a construction lender, whose counsel turned out to lack authority to prosecute the case.

• Defended a Midtown 5-over-1 apartment developer against a number of cases, liens, and other claims brought by subcontractors left unpaid by a general contractor who defaulted and walked a $100 million-dollar construction project.

• Currently pursuing a case against a commercial tenant for half a million dollars in unpaid rent.

• Currently defending ADA claims against a commercial shopping center owner in West University.

Judgment Enforcement

• Obtained a $4.5 million judgment nunc pro tunc following an evidentiary hearing after the defendant’s name was misspelled in the case caption from case filing to verdict.

• Obtained $1 million—a 100% recovery—less than 30 days after entering appearance in the case, with appeal dropped. 

• Defeated defendants’ attempts to obtain a reduced supersedeas bond of $500,000 on a $3.6 million judgment on a jury verdict.

• Obtained numerous receivership appointments in contested cases, including several upheld on appeal.

University of Texas School of Law, J.D., with honors, May 2012

• Staff Editor, Texas Law Review

• Order of the Coif

• Supreme Court Clinic

• Workers’ Rights Clinic

Georgetown University, A.B., cum laude, December 2007

• English Major

• Economics Minor

Mark E. Fuller, U.S. District Judge, 2012–13 

• Law Clerk 

• Middle District of Alabama

Nathan L. Hecht, Chief Judge of Texas, 2013–14 

• Briefing Attorney 

• Supreme Court of Texas

• State Bar of Texas

• The Mississippi Bar

• United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

• U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

• Houston Young Lawyers Association, Board Member, 2018–20 

• Houston Volunteer Lawyers, Board Member 2016–18 

• Texas Rising Star honors as presented by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters Business, 2019, 2021–25 

• Texas Bar Foundation Fellow