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For over 27 years, Felicia’s advice, experience, and skill as a negotiator and lawyer have helped parties resolve disputes. As an advocate, Felicia has been a trusted advisor in some of her clients’ toughest personal and professional times and is recognized by her peers for inclusion among The Best Lawyers® in America in commercial litigation (2021-2025) and listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America®. As a neutral, Felicia is a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (NADN), a TMCA Credentialed Distinguished Mediator, Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Early Dispute Resolution (EDR) Committee (2023-2025), Chair (2024-2025) for the Houston Bar Association ADR Council (2024-2027)-, a Member of the State Bar of Texas ADR Council (2024-2027), a Member of the American Bar Association ADR Council, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). 

She has experience helping parties – both plaintiffs and defendants – resolve disputes inside and outside of the courtroom. She has worked with individuals and entrepreneurs, as well as privately-held and publicly-traded companies with local, national, and/or international teams and operations.

Spanning a range of industries and involving a broad spectrum of legal and business problems, Felicia’s has experience resolving conflicts involving contractual rights, indemnity, negligence, personal injury and wrongful death, partnership formation and duties, trade secrets, employment agreements, non-compete and non-solicitation, fraud, business disparagement, defamation, fiduciary duties, corporate governance, federal and state employment laws, lease agreements, landlord-tenant disputes, healthcare, home-health & nursing home operations, medical malpractice, product liability, seismic exploration rights and other real property interests, offshore plugging & abandonment, consumer credit, OSHA & EEOC investigations, UCC, homeowners & community associations, construction trust fund, first-party insurance, collections, and warranty claims.

Felicia understands the pressures, demands and risks lawyers and their clients deal with in conflict management and resolution. She understands the dynamics of negotiations between parties wanting to deescalate, avoid, or resolve conflict while also preserving and protecting litigation positions, should negotiations prove unsuccessful.

This kind of understanding and experience proves relevant during mediations as lawyers and their clients consider, evaluate, and confidentially negotiate risk management and dispute resolution options.

This kind of understanding and experience also proves relevant as an arbitrator. Felicia is keenly aware of the importance of neutrality in arbitration and goes out of her way to ensure all parties and their counsel trust that her neutrality, objectivity, and judgment are never compromised.

As a neutral, Felicia accepts private (ad hoc) engagements and court appointments, in addition to serving as a neutral on public and private panels such as:

 

American Arbitration Association National Rosters of Arbitrators & Mediators 

American Health Law Association National Roster of Arbitrators & Mediators

Caroline Center for Dispute Resolution (Houston) Mediation & Arbitration Panel

Texas Comptroller Arbitrator Registry – Appraisal Review Board Appeals

Texas Department of Insurance Roster of Mediators

Texas Justice Center Roster of Arbitrators & Mediators

United State District Court, Southern District of Texas – Alternative Dispute Resolution Provider

Early Dispute Resolution Institute

Harris County Dispute Resolution Center 

Brazoria County Special Commissioner

Felicia is a frequent speaker on private dispute resolution methods and best practices, and is active in the ADR Sections of the Houston Bar Association (HBA), State Bar of Texas, and the American Bar Association (ABA). She is currently serving as Co-Chair for the ABA’s EDR Committee and Vice Chair for the ABA Mediation Committee, Chair of the Houston Bar Association ADR Council for the 2024-2025 Bar year, and is serving a three-year term (2024-2027) on the State Bar of Texas ADR Council and on the American Bar Association ADR Council. Felicia also serves on the Board of the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association as the Association of Attorney-Mediators representative. In April 2024, Felicia was listed among the Featured Members for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators North American Branch.

In 2023, during her time as a Fellow for the ABA EDR Committee, Felicia wrote a report in support of ABA Resolution 500 urging greater voluntary and informed use of EDR in dispute resolution. In February 2024, Felicia was privileged to speak in support of ABA Resolution 500 at the ABA Mid-Year Meeting of the House of Delegates (“HOD”) in Louisville, Kentucky. During this meeting, ABA Resolution 500 was submitted to the HOD by the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, along with support and co-sponsorship from the ABA Section of State and Local Government and ABA Senior Lawyers Division. Prior to submission, the Resolution also received the support of the ABA Business Law Section, ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law, ABA Young Lawyers Division, and the ABA Section of Government and Public Sector Lawyers. On February 5, 2024, the ABA House of Delegates unanimously, and without opposition, adopted ABA Resolution 500. 

In 2022, Felicia Chaired the ABA’s Section of Dispute Resolution Mediation Week 2022 Program – Winning from the Beginning through Early Dispute Resolution, which received the ABA Dispute Resolution Section’s Program of the Year Award,  and she received the HBA Foundation 2021 Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Harris County Dispute Resolution Center. 

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