Co-lead national counsel for Motiva Enterprises LLC in state attorneys general climate change litigation brought against fossil fuel companies, including advising on issues that have been briefed multiple times before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Co-lead trial counsel in Texas commercial construction arbitration hearing, recovering 7-figure award that was five times pre-hearing settlement offer
Represented financial institutions, including a real estate private equity fund, and individual investors, in loan workout negotiations, foreclosure issues, business and fiduciary duty disputes, and receivership proceedings
Successfully obtained asylum in the U.S. for mother and her family who had evacuated from Kabul, Afghanistan during the 2021 U.S. withdrawal and had received death threats from the Taliban for serving in the U.S.-supported government
Publications:
Litigating Company Agreements and How to Avoid Common Pitfalls, 34th Annual LLCs, LPs and Partnerships Conference, University of Texas School of Law, Sep. 18, 2025 (with C. John Muller IV)
States Are Riding the Coattails of Federal Government Environment Policies
Daily Journal, Dec. 27, 2022 (with McGregor Scott, Erich Almonte, and Kate Benner)
The Widening Circuit Split On State Court Climate Claims
Law360, July 11, 2022 (with Matthew Blaschke and Rachel Rubens)
EPA’s Draft Strategic Plan Emphasizes Resilience and Adaption to Climate Change
Texas Lawyer, Jan. 13, 2022 (with Michael Leslie, Granta Nakayama, and Tracie Renfroe)
SCOTUS Declines to Resolve U.S. Climate Change Litigation, For Now
ABA Environmental & Energy Litigation Newsletter, December 3, 2021
The Future of Climate Change Litigation in the Wake of the US Supreme Court’s Baltimore Ruling,” Law 360, June 10, 2021
Coming and Going: How Texas Companies Can Guard Against the Ongoing Risk of False Claims Act Enforcement Actions During COVID-19 Crisis
Texas Lawyer, July 6, 2020 (with Brandt Leibe and Grant Nichols)
Do Climate Change Nuisance Suits Belong in Federal Court?
Law 360, June 16, 2020 (with Carol Wood, Tracie Renfroe, Nate Bilhartz, and Ashley Parrish)
What’s Wrong with America’s Future? Perhaps It’s Us.
Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress Weekly News Roundup, Feb. 14, 2020
Protecting Protective Orders: Defending Your Client’s Confidential Documents in the Big Data Age, DRI’s In-House Defense Quarterly, Summer 2018 (with Lana K. Varney)
Do Medical Experts Need Peer-Reviewed Support? Corporate Counsel, January 28, 2015
Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Post-Contract – Formation Fraud, 66 Baylor Law Review 760, Fall 2014 (cited approvingly in Jani-King Franchising, Inc. v. Jani-King (GB) Ltd., 2016 WL 7680527, at *4 (N.D. Tex., 2016))
Free Trade with China: For Better or Worse? A Dialogue on Presidential Challenges and Leadership: Papers of the 2010-2011 Presidential Fellows at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, August 2011
The Constitutional Origins of the President’s Foreign Affairs Power, Texas A&M University Honors Research Fellow Senior Thesis Submission, April 2011
