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Mckinney, Texas, United States

Frisco, Texas

• Counseled clients on wide-range of corporate, estate planning, probate and real estate legal issues.
• Increased gross revenues by 5% each year by providing cost-effective work product to clients.
• Drafted, negotiated and reviewed commercial real estate leases, commercial contracts and provided due diligence on the mergers and acquisitions.
• Prepared advanced estate planning and probate legal services to clients.

Dallas, Texas

• TransForce is North America’s largest publicly-held international shipping and logistics holding company. Legal services, included commercial contracts and lease preparation and administration, advising on corporate.
• Extensive transactional practice drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various agreements (e.g., master service agreements, RFPs, NDAs, technology, M&A, vendor, marketing, warehouse and consulting agreements); including.
• Enhanced revenue streams by decreasing costs, risks, and liabilities through formulating and executing strategic plans, including drafting commercial agreements to minimize expense and liability exposures, negotiating.
• Counseled divisions on contract formation and interpretation, contract terminations, noncompete and confidentiality obligations, protection of intellectual property, and employment matters.
• Guided corporate operations on risk management, industry compliance, internal investigations, agency relations, marketing, business development, strategic planning and quality control.
• Facilitated complex multi-million dollar mergers and acquisitions and performed legal due diligence projects, including commercial service agreements, real estate, and liabilities and indemnities exposure.

Fort Worth, Texas

• A full-service medium-sized law firm with approximately 40 attorneys.Advised clients on corporate, business, real estate, oil and gas, advanced estate tax and probate legal matters.
• Counseled corporate clients on commercial transactions, commercial leases, corporate governance and policies, employment, mergers and acquisitions, and franchises.
• Achieved corporate clients’ legal and business requirements by managing litigation, advising on corporate governance and compliance matters, forming corporate entities, and negotiating, drafting, and reviewing.
• Closed multi-million dollar deals for real estate developers, commercial lenders, investors, retailers, brokers and contractors.
• Consultation and preparation of advanced estate planning documents including advanced wills, advanced irrevocable and revocable trusts, charitable trusts, GRATs, and special and supplemental needs trust, incapacity.

Arlington, Texas

• A full-service small-sized law firm with 4 attorneys.Handled diverse and complex business, corporate, real estate, and advanced estate planning, tax and probate legal services for individual and corporate clients.
• Counseled corporate clients on commercial transactions, commercial leases, corporate governance and policies, employment, mergers and acquisitions, and franchises.
• Advised and represented clients with due diligence for mergers and acquisitions and sale of business agreements.
• Drafted, negotiated and reviewed commercial real estate leases, real estate purchase and development agreements, commercial contracts, and technology agreements.
• Served as sole title attorney for firm’s real estate closing services, performed examination of title abstracts, oil and gas leases, contracts and other legal documents.
• Counseled clients and planned taxable and nontaxable estates, including advanced wills, trusts (testamentary trusts, GRATs, special needs, supplemental needs), incapacity documents, family limited partnerships.

Fort Worth, Texas

• Supplied real estate, finance, and banking legal advice and work product.
• Streamlined the loan disbursement process by drafting more efficient loan document templates.
• Authorized loan disbursements and assisted disaster victims with getting new real estate.
• Reviewed title insurance commitments on real property and researched U.S. and state laws.

Fort Worth, Texas

• Corporate Counsel for title insurance project.
• Served as lead corporate counsel on title insurance project.
• Researched title plant regulations and markets of entry to determine title plant location.
• Drafted, negotiated and reviewed commercial agreements and real estate transactions and provided litigation management services.

Canton, Texas

• Counseled clients on wide-range of corporate, estate planning, probate and real estate legal issues.
• Increased gross revenues by 5% each year by providing cost-effective work product to clients.
• Drafted, negotiated and reviewed commercial real estate leases, commercial contracts and provided due diligence on the mergers and acquisitions.
• Prepared advanced estate planning and probate legal services to clients.

Doctor Of Law (Jd), Law

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Delta, Currents International Trade Law Journal Editor, Vice President of Texas A&M Law Students.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Finance, 3.80

Activities and Societies: Graduate Certificate of International Business

Advanced Spanish

Bba, Accounting And Business/Management

Activities and Societies: Pre-Law Society, Off Campus Aggie Assocition