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PAST AND PRESENT JOURNAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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U.S. Tax Court Chief Judge Mary Ann Cohen presented her paper, How to Read Tax Court Opinions, at this year's Arizona State Bar Convention and at a CLE course for the Colorado State Bar Tax Section.
In Fall, 2001, José Padilla's Article, What's Wrong with a Washout?, was republished by the Practicing Law Institute, at José M. Padilla, What's Wrong with a Washout?: Fiduciary Duties of the Venture Capitalist Investor in a Washout Financing, in Venture Capital: Getting Financing in a Changing Environment 2001, at 941 (PLI Corp. L. & Practice Course, Handbook Series No. B0-017M, 2001).
Monika Fendler, a 2001-2002 Articles Editor, was featured in Meet Your 2001-2002 HYLA Directors, The Houston Lawyer, Sept.-Oct. 2001, at 48.
SUMMER ASSOCIATE POSITIONS -
- Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Houston, TX
- American General Corporation, Houston, TX
- Andrews & Kurth, Houston, TX
- Fish & Richardson Houston, TX
- Baker Botts, Dallas, TX
- Baker Hughes, Inc., Houston, TX
- Beirne, Maynard, and Parsons Houston, TX
- Brown McCarroll, Houston, TX
- Caldwell, Clinton & Evans, Houston, TX
- Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, Houston, TX
- Coane and Associates, Houston, TX
- Conley, Rose & Tayon, Houston, TX
- Cook, Roach & Lawless, Houston, TX
- Cox & Smith, (2) San Antonio, TX
- Crady, Jewett, & McCulley, Houston, TX
- Daniel Ross and Associates, Austin, TX
- Darby & Darby, New York, NY
- Davis, Oretsky & Guilfoyle, Houston, TX
- Decker, Jones, McMackin, Hall & Bates, Fort Worth, TX
- Dewan Mushtaq Group
- ExxonMobil, Houston, TX
- Fulbright & Jaworski, (2) Houston, TX
- Gardere, Wynne, Sewell & Riggs, (2) Houston, TX
- Harding, Bass, Fargason, Booth & St. Clair, Lubbock, TX
- Hausmaninger, Herbst, Wiertzyk, Vienna, Austria
- Haynes & Boone, (2) Dallas, TX
- Heard, Linebarger, Graham, Goggan, Blair, Pena & Sampson, San Antonio, TX
- Hirsch & Westheimer, Houston, TX
- Hoover Slovacek, Houston, TX
- Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White, Houston, TX
- Liberty Legal Foundation, Dallas, TX
- Locke, Lidell & Sapp, Houston, TX
- Lloyd, Gosselink, Blevins, Rochelle, Baldwin & Townsend, Austin, TX
- Jones Walker, The Woodlands, TX
- Mann Frankfort Stein & Lipp, Houston, TX
- Marjorie Payne Britt, Houston, TX
- Neel, Hooper & Kalmans
- Nelson, McCormick, Hancock & Newton, Houston, TX
- Office of the General Counsel of International Trade Negotiation, Mexico City, Mexico
- Ogden, Gibson, White & Broocks, Houston, TX
- O'Quinn, Laminack & Pirtle, Houston, TX
- Phelps Dunbar, Houston, TX
- Porter & Hedges, Houston, TX
- Porter, Rogers, Dahlman & Gordon, Houston, TX
- Powers & Frost, Houston, TX
- Rubenstein Crowson, Houston, TX
- Schlanger, Mills, Mayer & Silver, Houston, TX
- Schroeder Walthall Neville, Houston, TX
- Shannon, Martin, Finkelstein & Sayre, Houston, TX
- Shell Oil Company (Tax Firm & IP Section), Houston, TX
- Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Houston, TX
- Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, Dallas, TX
- Tekell, Book, Matthews & Limmer, Houston, TX
- Texaco Houston, TX
- Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, Houston, TX
- Vinson & Elkins, Houston, TX
- Winstead Sechrest & Minick, Houston, TX
- Young & Brooks, Houston, TX
JUDICIAL INTERNSHIPS -
- U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Atlas
- U.S. District Court Judge Vanessa Gilmore
- U.S. District Court Judge Ewing Werlein, Jr.
- U.S. District Court Magistrate Maryrose Milloy
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Manuel Leal
- U.S. Tax Court Judge Juan Vasquez, Sr.
- Federal Magistrate Judge Nancy K. Johnson
- Fourteenth Court of Appeals Justice Harvey Hudson
- ADDITIONAL HONOURS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Order of the Barons
- Order of the Barristers
- Prosecutor - University of Houston Honor Court
- University of Houston Mock Trial Team
- Texas Invitational Mock Trial Team Competition (Speaker)
- ATLA Mock Trial Competition (Speaker)
- Hippard Mock Trial (Quarter-Finalist)
- Abraham, Watkins, Nichol & Friend Mock Trial (Semi-Finalist)
- (South Texas College of Law)
- Negotiation Competition (Quarter-Finalist)
- Gulf Coast Legal Foundation Externship (Family Unit)
- Innocence Project
- HYLA Law Student Representative Director
- Membership & Finance Executive—Board of Advocates
- President—Corporate & Taxation Law Society
- Prosecutor of the University of Houston Honor Court
- Master of Law Program in International, Commercial & Trade Law at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
- Mexico Legal Studies Program
- Tax Executives Institute Scholarship
- Dean’s Scholarship (4)
- Chapa-O'Quinn Scholarship
- International Education Fee Scholarship
- Harris County Juvenile Public Defender Scholarship
- Federal Bar Association’s Ronald J. Blask Fellowship
- National Rifle Association Writing Competition (2nd Place) (2)
- Williamson Legal Writing Award (Finalist)
- Phi Delta Phi/Highest Grade Award (Legal Research & Writing I)
- Phi Delta Phi/Highest Grade Award (Criminal Law)
- Phi Delta Phi/Highest Grade Award (Professional Responsibility)
- LEX Award - Criminal Law
- LEX Award - Torts II
- Carothers Prize for the Advancement of the Study of Intellectual Property Law in the United States
- Houston Bar Association Real Estate Law Section Award
- Member of AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers)
- Master of Science—Chemical Engineering, Physics/Computer Science
- Master of Education—Secondary Mathematics, Education Administration
- Doctor of Philosophy—English Literature
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