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Practice Areas
- Antitrust Law
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business Law
- Energy, Oil & Gas Law
- Intellectual Property
- International Law
Additional Practice Areas
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Technology Litigation
- Litigation
- International Dispute Resolution
- Energy & Natural Resources
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Professional Experience
- Shareholder
- Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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Education
- Columbia University School of Law
- J.D.
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- Rice University
- B.A.
- summa cum laude, Behavioral Science and Political Science
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Professional Associations
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- Activities: Member, American Bar Association Past Member, House of Delegates, Nominating Committee; Long-Range Planning Committee; Section Officers Conference Committee on Governance; Joint Committee on Legal Ethics and Professionalism; Task Force on Homeland Security; Rule of Law Initiative - Latin America and Caribbean Council; Hurricane Relief Task Force; winner of the 2007 ABA Rule of Law Award; Delegate to World Justice Forum (Vienna 2008)
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- Activities: Member, ABA Section of Antitrust Law Vice Chair (nominated to become Chair in 2010); Committee Officer (responsible for oversight of 27 substantive committees); Past Section Delegate; Past Council Member; Past Chair: Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee, Business Torts and Unfair Competition Committee, Continuing Legal Education Committee, and National Institutes Committee; International Task Force liaison to Free Trade Area of the Americas; Editorial Co-Chair, Annual Review Of Antitrust Law Developments (2000)
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- Activities: Commissioner, Texas Access to Justice Commission
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- Activities: Commissioner, Texas Supreme Court Permanent Judicial Commission for Children, Youth and Families
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- Activities: Member, United States-Mexico Bar Association (formerly Texas-Mexico Bar Association) Past President; Past Chair, Competition Law Committee; principal drafter of The International Lawyer's Creed
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- Activities: Member, State Bar of Texas Board of Directors; Chair, Administration Committee Litigation Subcommittee; Vice-chair, Task Force on Lawyer Mental Health; Antitrust and Business Litigation Section: Director Advisor; Director Advisor, Committee on Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Responsibility; Presidential Citation 2008
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- Activities: International Law Section: Director Advisor; Past Council Member; Delegation to La Union Nacional de Juristas de Cuba
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- Activities: Member, Houston Bar Association Past Chair, Antitrust and Trade Regulation Section; Chair, Professionalism Day; President's Award 1999
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- Activities: Life Fellow, American, Texas, and Houston Bar Foundations
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- Activities: Charter Member, Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers
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- Activities: Past Chair, City of Houston Ethics Committee (appointed by Mayor)
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- Activities: Director, Texas Appleseed Center Past Chair; principal spokesperson for landmark Fair Defense Report on indigent representation in Texas and Fair Defense Act in Texas Legislature; State Bar of Texas Newton Award for outstanding pro bono services by a group of attorneys; spokesperson for SB 1045 to create a State Innocence Commission and SB 163 to prevent execution of persons with mental retardation; winner of Mental Health Association in Texas Ring of Honor
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- Activities: Director, Appleseed Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
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- Activities: U.S. Delegate and Rapporteur, Free Trade Area of the Americas Working Group on Competition Law and Policy
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- Activities: Advisor and principal drafter of the Unfair Competition Law of Ukraine, Ukraine Antimonopoly Committee
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- Activities: Member, Pro Bono College of the State Bar of Texas
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- Activities: Member, Board of Visitors, Columbia University School of Law Reunion Co-Chair, 1997, 2002, and 2007
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- Activities: Rice University Annual Fund Class Chair, 1999; Reunion Co-Chair, 2000 and 2005
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- Activities: Vice President, MacGregor Area Community Development Corporation
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- Activities: Co-founder and General Counsel, African Angels Children's Fund (Nairobi, Kenya)
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