General Commercial Litigation

• Recovered all relief requested and full attorney’s fees in international arbitration brought on behalf of cosmetics manufacturer against its long-time French distributor (first-chair).

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

• Defeated motion to compel arbitration in construction dispute, which later settled confidentially on favorable terms (first-chair).

• Currently pursuing multimillion-dollar trade secret and insurance recovery claims on behalf of oil and gas services companies.

• Represented foreign manufacturer of food processing lines in complex commercial dispute before federal district court and International Chamber of Commerce: prepare and argue motion to compel arbitration, motion for injunctive relief; represent client at mediation; and successfully resolve dispute through settlement.

• Successfully defend preliminary injunction brought by minority shareholder against majority shareholder of berry farm asserting claims for breach of fiduciary duty and shareholder oppression.

Employment Litigation

• Won a total defense verdict in “60 seconds” in a sexual harassment and retaliation case on behalf of a Houston custom homebuilder, presenting opening statement, cross-examining the accuser, and directing and crossing other key witnesses.

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.

• 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.

• Won contested eviction trial for commercial property owner in Houston’s Upper Kirby Management District.

• Negotiated early exit from multiyear waste contract on behalf of major commercial property owner. 

• Handling ongoing commercial property disputes in and around Rice Village.

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

• Editor-in-Chief, Texas Environmental Law Journal

• Member (invite-only), Board of Advocates

• First Place in Locke Lord Mock Trial Competition 

Boston University, B.A., summa cum laude, May 2008

• Political Science and Government Major

• Year-Long Study Abroad in France at Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

• State Bar of Texas

• The Oregon 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

• English (native)

• Bosnian (native)

• Serbo-Croatian (native)

• French (proficient)