Admissions

  • Texas

Prior Experience

  • Legal intern to the Chief of Criminal Appeals, United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, 2001

Recognitions

  • Named a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation
  • Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2012–2016
  • Cardozo Society, "Outstanding Attorney Under 40," 2012–2015

Education

  • M.D., The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School 2008                                                            
    Southwestern Foundation Scholarship for outstanding scholastic achievements; four-year Alumni Scholar

  • J.D., Yale Law School 2003
    Benjamin Scharps Prize for "the best paper by a third-year student";
    Margaret Gruter Prize for the best paper on biological sciences and the law

  • A.B., Harvard University 1999
    magna cum laude with Highest Honors in Social Studies
    1999 Philo Sherman Bennett Award for "the best essay discussing the principles of free government"
    John Harvard Scholarship for "academic achievement of the highest distinction"
    Phi Beta Kappa

Memberships

  • AT&T Performing Arts Center – Chair-Elect (2019–2021); Board of Directors, 2016–present (Executive Committee, 2018–present)
  • Parkland Foundation - Board of Directors, 2016–present (Executive Committee, 2017–present); Capital Campaign Steering Committee, 2013–2015
  • SPCA of Texas - Board of Directors, 2016–2019
  • Perot Museum of Nature and Science – Board of Directors, 2016–present (Chair, Legal Advisory Committee (2019–present), Executive Committee (2019–present)); Museum Board, 2013–2016; Legal Advisory Committee, 2013–present; Advisory Board, 2012–2013
  • Anti-Defamation League, Texoma region – Board of Directors, 2017–present
  • Dallas Bar Association - Judiciary Committee, 2012–present; Co-Chair, 2016; Admissions and Membership Committee, 2013–present; Co-Chair, 2018; Governing Council, Business Litigation Section 2018–present
  • Texas Israel Alliance (Board of Directors, 2019–present)
  • Harvard Club of Dallas - Harvard Schools Committee, Interviewer, 2003–present
  • Leadership Arts Institute - Business Council for the Arts, Leadership Class of 2011–2012