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Susan Hardie JacksShareholderHoustont: 713.655.1200 ext. 155 f: 713.655.0222 SusanJacks@mehaffyweber.com V-card |
Profile
For more than 20 years, Susie Jacks has represented clients as both trial and appellate attorney handling diverse bankruptcy and commercial litigation. Susie’s commercial litigation practice has spanned civil disputes in a wide range of areas, including oil and gas, intellectual property, construction, and probate. As a bankruptcy lawyer, she has represented chapter 11 debtors, chapter 11 and chapter 7 trustees, creditors’ committees, secured creditors, unsecured creditors, and parties to preference and fraudulent conveyance litigation. Her experience in representing all constituents of bankruptcy cases has facilitated efficient resolution of her clients’ disputes in bankruptcy matters.Susie joined MehaffyWeber in 2004 in the firm’s Houston office. Before then, she practiced law in Houston for 11 years with Butler & Binion, L.L.P. and then with a firm she co-founded, Burns, Wooley & Marseglia, L.L.P. She returned to Houston after practicing in Denver for three years with Block, Markus & Williams, L.L.C., a firm specializing in commercial bankruptcy reorganization and bankruptcy and commercial litigation.
Areas of Concentration
Bankruptcy and commercial litigationLicenses and Bar Admissions
State Bar of Texas, 1984Virginia State Bar, 1990
Colorado State Bar, 2001
United States Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
United States District Courts for all Districts of Texas
United States District Court for the District of Colorado
Education
Susie was graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College with an A.B., cum laude, and she received her J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1983. She is board certified in business bankruptcy by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.Memberships and Honors
Susie is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Bar Association, Houston Bar Association, American Bankruptcy Institute, International Women's Insolvency and Reorganization Confederation, National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees and the Turnaround Management Association. In law school, she was named to the Raven Society, an honorary society recognizing contributions to the quality of life at the University of Virginia.Following her return to Texas, Texas Monthly magazine named Susie a 2005-2007 Texas “Super Lawyer.” In 2006, she was also named one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in the Houston Region and one of the Top 50 Female Super Lawyers in Texas.
