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Practice Areas: Complex commercial litigation, including securities litigation and arbitration, cross-border disputes, derivative litigation and class actions.

Professional Memberships: FINRA's National Arbitration and Mediation Committee; College of the State Bar of Texas; American Bar Foundation; American Association for Justice; Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association; Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum; International, American, Texas & Houston Bar Associations.

Career: Ajamie LLP 1997-present; Baker Botts LLP 1985-97.

Publications: Co-author, 'Financial Serial Killers: Inside the World of Wall Street Money Hustlers, Swindlers, and Con Men.' Other publications and presentations include W!se MoneyPower Conference for Financial Literacy, The McGraw-Hill Companies, New York (2011); Keynote Address: How To Detect and Deflect Scams & Schemes, The Financial Planning Association of New York’s 9th Annual Financial Fitness Workshop (2011), Keynote Address: Greed, Ego, Power, Ethics & the Law, NALSC 2011 Spring Conference (2011), The Financial Serial Killers Among Us, CFA Society of Houston Program (2011), Regulation D, TICs, and Unlisted REITS, Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association 18th Annual Meeting (2009), Representing the Hedge Fund Investor, 'Trial Magazine' (2007), Getting Grandma's Nest Egg Back, 'ATLA Business Torts Section Newsletter' (2006), A Mock Arbitration: As Close as You Can Get, SIA/Wharton Securities Industry Institute 54th Annual Program (2006), Insurance Industry Issues, Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (2005), A Look at the Securities Arbitration Process, 'ATLA Business Torts Section Newsletter' (2005), Mock Arbitration, SIA/Wharton Securities Industry Institute 53rd Annual Program (2005), Demonstrative Evidence: Making an Effective Presentation on a Budget, University of Houston Law Foundation, Litigation and Trial Tactics (2004), Securities Fraud, Market Abuses and Insider Trading, University of Houston Law Foundation, Advanced Business Litigation (2003), Securities Fraud and Insider Trading, South Texas College of Law (2003), Stock Fraud: Evaluating the Case, University of Houston Law Foundation Advanced Business Litigation (2002), Shareholder Litigation and Officer/Director Liability Post-Sarbanes-Oxley, University of Houston Law Foundation, Representing Corporations in a Changed Legal Environment (2002).

Personal: University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D., 1985 (London Law Programme, 1983-84); Arizona State University, B.A., cum laude, 1982 (Student Body President, 1980-81)