Arbitration Experience:

Panel of Arbitrators, Benchmark Arbitrations, Inc., 2021

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION TRAINING

Advanced Alternative Dispute Resolution, 2020;
The Ethics of Negotiation, 2017;
ADR/Family Law Sections Panel on Arbitration, 2016;
The Ethics of Mediation, 2016;
Family Mediation Training, 2014;
Basic Mediation Training, 2013;
ADR Case Law Update and Ethics, 2007

EXPERIENCE

Gilbert Mediation Group, Dallas, TX

Attorney/Mediator
January 2017 – Present

• Full-time service as neutral mediator in a wide variety of cases involving personal injury, products liability, UM/UIM, construction, automobile and trucking claims, employment torts, business torts, breach of contract and other disputes. Typical case volume is approximately 250 cases per year.

Gammon Mediations, Dallas, TX

Attorney/Mediator for Personal Injury and Family Law
January 2014 - December 2016

• Mediated hundreds of personal injury and family law cases to settlement, including premises liability, UM/UIM, construction, debt collection, automobile and trucking claims

Walters, Balido & Crain, L.L.P., Dallas, TX

Partner, December 2010 - December 2013
Litigation Associate, January 2006 - December 2010

• Practice areas included personal injury defense, premises liability, commercial litigation, construction defect, and commercial vehicle/trucking litigation

• Substantial experience in all aspects of civil litigation from case intake through final disposition at trial, including party and expert depositions, discovery, mediation and trial

• Handled heavy caseload in a busy litigation practice, often managing more than 50 cases in litigation at one time

• Served as lead trial attorney and second chair attorney, and tried numerous cases to successful verdict in the State of Texas and Federal Court

• Licensed in all Courts of the State of Texas, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas

• In addition to trials, oral advocacy and courtroom experience includes advocating for clients in hearings and resolving countless cases in mediation

• 2014 Texas Rising Star

Touchstone, Bernays, Johnston, Beall, Smith & Stollenwerck, L.L.P., Dallas, TX

Litigation Associate, August 2004 - January 2006
Summer Associate, May 2003 - July 2003
Personal injury litigation, motor vehicle, products liability and premises liability

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND RECOGNITION

• State Bar of Texas, Admitted 2004

• Admitted to practice in the Northern District of Texas

• Dallas Bar Association

• Speaker, "Trucking Liability: How to Keep Your Company from Facing a Lawsuit"– ProPickup Expo 2013–Dallas Convention Center

*Certified Mediator by the State of Texas
**Certified Mediator in Family Law by the State of Texas
***Texas Rising Star ADR 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Volunteer for Dallas Children's Advocacy Center

• Volunteer for Dallas Dispute Resolution Center, 2013 – 2017

• Elizabeth Toon Charities, Former Committee Member

• Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Group

• Junior Group of the Marianne Scruggs Garden Club, Committee Chair

EDUCATION

Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, TX Juris Doctor, 2004

Texas Tech Law Review, 2002-2004

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Bachelor of Arts, Public Relations, 2001