Associate

State Bar of Texas in 2003

U.S. District Court, Northern, Eastern, Western and Southern Districts of Texas

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

U.S. Supreme Court

Texas Tech University

B.S.,Wildlife and Fisheries Management, 1999, summa cum laude
Highest Ranking Graduate, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
Outstanding Student, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
President, The Wildlife Society

Texas Tech University Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration

M.B.A. 2003

Texas Tech University School of Law

J.D., 2003

Editor in Chief, Texas Tech Administrative Law Journal

Editorial Board, Texas Bank Lawyer

State Bar of Texas

Appellate Section
Contruction Law Section

Standing Committee on Pattern Jury Charges—Business • Consumer • Insurance • Employment

Member (2011-14)
Assisted in drafting the “Preservation of Charge Error” comment included in all 2012 volumes
Co-Chair, Misappropriation of Trade Secrets Charge Drafting Subcommittee
Construction Law Charge Drafting Subcommittee

Journal of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society

Deputy Executive Editor (2011)

Briefing Attorney, Supreme Court of Texas, Hon. Nathan L. Hecht (2003-2004 term)

Featured in the Court’s 2004-05 clerkship brochure

Super Lawyers - Texas Rising Star Edition (2009-2011)

Co-Editor, the Appellate Advocate (2009-2011)

College of the State Bar of Texas (2004-2010)

Clerkship Notification Blog

Editor in Chief (2008-09, 2009-10, and 2010-11 clerkship seasons) (named to the ABA Journal’s 2008 ABA Journal Blawg 100 List)

Texas Tech Law Review

The Rule of Capture—Still So Misunderstood After All These Years, 37 TEX. TECH L. REV. 1 (Winter 2004)

Texas Tech Administrative Law Journal

Comment, Texas Groundwater Law in the 21st Century: A Compendium of Historical Approaches, Current Problems, and Future Solutions Focusing on the High Plains Aquifer and the Panhandle, 4 TEX. TECH ADMIN. L.J. 173 (Summer 2003)

The Appellate Advocate

In Defense of Confidential Votes on Petitions for Review at the Texas Supreme Court, (Fall 2010)
Citation Writ Large, 20 APP. ADVOC. 89 (Winter 2008)
A Vote By Any Other Name: The (Abbreviated) History of the Dissent from Denial of Review at the Texas Supreme Court, APP. ADVOC., Spring 2006, at 8
In Defense of Confidential Votes on Petitions for Review at the Texas Supreme Court, 23 APP. ADVOC. 34 (Fall 2010)

Texas Lawyer

Workers’ Comp. Whirlwind, TEX. LAW. Dec. 19, 2005, at 36

The Houston Lawyer

Bridging the Gulf Between the Texas and Federal Arbitration Acts: S.B. 1650 Ends Simultaneous Mandamus and Interlocutory Appellate Proceedings in Texas, 47 HOUSTON LAW. 44 (Sept./Oct. 2009)
What Constitutes the Last Word after Chemical Lime: the Mandate or the Judgment?, 47 HOUSTON LAW. 56 (Sept./Oct. 2009)

TexasBarCLE

Author, Traps for the Unwary Administrative Lawyer, in Advanced Administrative Law Course (2005)

UTCLE

Author and Speaker, Groundwater Ownership in Place: Fact or Fiction?, in Texas Water Law Institute (2008)
Author and Speaker, Recurring Evidentiary Issues in Administrative Hearings at SOAH, in 2nd Annual Advanced Texas Administrative Law Seminar (2007)