• Representation of creditors, creditors’ committees, debtors, and other parties in complex bankruptcy matters

• Have handled more than 50 mediations with high success rate in the last ten years

• Counsel to an independent QSE and ERCOT market participant in several bankruptcy cases, including a complex bankruptcy case caused by Winter Storm Uri

• Counsel to a large royalty and working interest owner in a contested oil-and-gas reorganization and an adversary proceeding against the same debtor

• Counsel to chapter 11 trustee (later liquidation trustee) in CFO Management Holdings, LLC bankruptcy, a complex chapter 11 liquidation of a family of real-estate-development companies

• Counsel to judgment creditor/lender in a complex fraudulent transfer litigation

• Counsel to a group of Texas homebuilders in an action defending an appealed sale order entered more than a decade prior

• Counsel to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the Think Finance bankruptcy case

• Counsel to State Lands Commission (State of California) in the Rincon bankruptcy case

• Counsel to primary secured lender in complex chapter 11 liquidation of a major retailer

• Debtors’ counsel in chapter 11 reorganization proceedings of family of hotel and related businesses

• Counsel to secured creditor in successfully opposing bankruptcy debtor’s proposed chapter 11 plan

• Counsel to debtor in individual complex chapter 11 case and in successful month-long trial against the Internal Revenue Service on its asserted $1.2 billion claim

• Counsel to committee and then liquidating trustee in In re Alco Stores

• Conducted a three-year multimillion-dollar negotiation with indigenous people nation over federal reclamation claims related to bankruptcy debtor’s mining.

• Counsel for debtors in possession in the bankruptcy of a telecommunications company, resulting in the sale of the company.

• Counsel for debtors in the bankruptcy of multimillion-dollar performing arts center, in which critically cash-starved debtors were successfully sold within six weeks of the company’s bankruptcy filing, thereby preserving value for creditors.

• Counsel to buyer of assets of multinational telecommunications and data networking equipment manufacturer

• Counsel to buyer of assets of communications company

• Counsel to multinational telecommunications conglomerate regarding its multimillion-dollar claim against Adelphia bankruptcy

• “Mindful Mediation: The Ways and Means of Successful Bankruptcy Mediation”, Business Law Today, February 12, 2019.

• “Mediation at Center Stage,” American Bankruptcy Institute Leadership Conference, Palm Springs, California, December 1, 2017.

• “Mindful Mediation, the Ways and Means of Successful Bankruptcy Mediation,” American Bar Association, Section of Business Law, October 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada.

• “Is There Room in the Chapter 11 Ark for Trustees, Examiners and Creditors?” Panel Presentation to ABA, October 2014.

• “Current Developments,” American Bar Association, Section of Business Law, April 2010.

• “Estate and Derivative Litigation: Gold Mine or the Shaft?” University of Texas Conference, November 2009.

• “Current Developments,” American Bar Association, Section of Business Law, September 2008.

• “Letters of Credit and Bankruptcy,” John C. Ford Inn of Court, Dallas, Texas, January 2008.

• “Energy and Insolvency Law,” Dallas Bar Association, Energy Law Section, Dallas, Texas, August 2007.

• “What Attorneys wish Judges Knew,” Texas Advanced Business Bankruptcy Course, June, 2007.

• “Hot Topics in Bankruptcy Law,” Texas Advanced Business Bankruptcy Course, February, 2007.

• “Letters of Credit and Bankruptcy,” John C. Ford Inn of Court, Dallas, Texas, September 2006.

• “Amendments to the Bankruptcy Code Affecting Consumer and Commercial Practice,” State Bar of Texas, Austin, Texas, July 2005.

• “Pre-Packaged Bankruptcies,” Dallas Bar Association, Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section, Dallas, Texas, November 2004.

• “Asset Securitization and the Effect of Insolvency on Special-Purpose Vehicles Under U.S. Law,” The Americas Restructuring and Insolvency Guide, 2004/2005, Globe White Page, London (Michael C. Li and Eric Soderlund, co-authors.)

• State Bar of Texas

• United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Tenth Circuits

• United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas

• American Bar Association, Business Law Section

• Courthouse Liaison Committee, Northern District of Texas, past President

• Dallas Bar Association, Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section, past Chair, 2000

• International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), National Board of Directors, 2000-2002

• Current Co-Chair of the Alternative Dispute Subcommittee of the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the American Bar Association

• J.D., University of Texas at Austin Law School

• Master of Arts in History, May 23, 1981, University of Texas at Austin

• Bachelor of Arts in History, May 6, 1979, Miami University, Ohio

• AV Rated Martindale-Hubble

• Michelle A. Mendez Award of Excellence for Outstanding Service to the Bankruptcy Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, June 2017

• The Best Lawyers in America, 2003 -2019

• Texas Super Lawyers, 2003- 2019

• Best Lawyers in Dallas, 2003-2018

• Chambers USA, 2004-2013 and 2018

• Who’s Who Legal, Texas, 2008

• Who’s Who Legal, Insolvency and Restructuring, 2014