Education:

ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, San Antonio, Texas
Doctor of Jurisprudence, May, 1995
Competitions:
• ATLA Mock Trial Competition, Semi-Finalist, 1995
• State Mock Trial Competition, Semi-Finalist, 1994
• Walker Moot Court Competition, Quarter-Finalist, 1994
• State Mock Trial Competition, Octa-Finalist, 1994
Extracurricular:
• Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, Justice, 1994-95
• Student Bar Association, Senator, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95
• Contributing author to monthly law school paper

UNIVERSITÄT INNSBRUCK, Innsbruck, Austria
Summer, 1993
Joint Venture/summer program co-sponsored by St. Mary’s Institute on World Legal Problems; Supreme Court Justice, John Paul Stevens, Guest Lecturer; course concentration in International Business Transactions, European Community Law and Advanced Constitutional Issues.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, Austin, Texas
Bachelor of Arts, English; Minor in French, December, 1991

Legal Experience:

LAW OFFICE OF JACK A. EFRON, INC.
Associate Attorney, May, 1996 to Present
Legal Clerk, September, 1995 to May, 1996
• AV-rated general practice firm focusing on civil litigation, family law, real estate, probate and estate planning, and bankruptcy; personally concentrated on general civil litigation, family, consumer, criminal, and personal injury law.
• Filed first appellate brief on CD-ROM in state of Texas; See Texas Lawyer,March 30, 1998, at 4; represented Appellee at both trial and appellate phases;
• Handled full caseload and assisted sole senior attorney. Drafted and argued numerous offensive and defensive pleadings, motions, discovery documents and trial briefs, including those for summary judgments, direct attacks of no-answer default judgments, injunction hearings and depositions.

ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY CIVIL JUSTICE CLINIC
Division of Bexar County Legal Aid
Student Attorney -- Las Palmas office
September, 1994 to May, 1995

• Responsible for all aspects of working caseload under supervision of Managing Attorney, including court appearances, drafting of all pleadings and motions. Areas of focus included Family Law, Wills and Estates.

THE HONORABLE ROBERT R. BARTON -- Hardy Professor of Trial Advocacy, St. Mary’s University, retired; Senior District Judge, retired; Current Visiting Judge, Bexar County, Texas
Research Assistant, May, 1994 to January, 1995
• Researched material for the Texas Evidence Manual, the Texas Search and Seizure Manual, and The Code Means What It Says: Revisiting The Admissibility Of Corroborated Unwritten Custodial Statements, Texas Tech Law Review, Vol. 26, No. 3 (1995).

THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS, Austin, Texas
Legal Intern/Clerk -- Staff Attorney’s Office, Summer, 1994
• Researched and wrote recommendations for Writ of Habeas Corpus Applications and Petitions for Discretionary Review.

Admitted To Bar:
• State of Texas, 1996
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, 1998

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Personal: Golf; Freelance Food Writer– San Antonio Current/SA Young Lawyers monthly; magazine articles; screenplay.