Amy Tabor represents a variety of corporate and individual clients in civil trials, arbitrations, and appeals. She has appeared for clients in federal and state courts throughout the United States. Her clients have included Fortune 500 companies in the electricity production, natural gas transportation, oil and gas production, and oilfield services industries. In addition to her broad commercial litigation experience, Ms. Tabor has a special expertise in class actions and antitrust. Texas Monthly recognized Ms. Tabor as a "rising star" in 2006-2009.

A native Houstonian, Ms. Tabor graduated, with high honors, from the University of Texas School of Law in 2003, where she was a member of the Texas Law Review and the Order of the Coif. She earned her B.A. from Brown University, magna cum laude, in 1995 and received a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities to study history at the University of California at Berkeley from 1995-1999. Before joining Schiffer Odom Hicks & Johnson, Ms. Tabor practiced at the international law firm of Baker Botts L.L.P.

Ms. Tabor represented a major energy company in antitrust litigation related to the California Energy Crisis. She also has experience in securities fraud, mortgage fraud, and energy project litigation. In pro bono matters, Ms. Tabor has represented several clients in immigration proceedings, winning asylum in the United States for individuals persecuted in their home countries because of their political beliefs. She is an active member of the Houston Bar Association, where she serves as Co-chair of the Communities in Schools Legal Internship Committee and as Chair-elect of the Antitrust & Trade Regulation Section.

EDUCATION

• The University of Texas School of Law (J.D. 2003)
• Graduated with high honors
• Texas Law Review
• Order of the Coif
• Townes-Rice Scholar
• Dean's Achievement Award in Antitrust
• The University of California at Berkeley (M.A., history, 1997)
• Taught weekly discussion sections for undergraduate medieval history survey at U.C. Berkeley (1997)
• Taught undergraduate philosophy survey at University of San Francisco (Fall 1998-Spring 1999)
• Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities (1995-1999)
• Brown University (B.A., Medieval Studies, 1995)
• Graduated magna cum laude
• Phi Beta Kappa

RECOGNITIONS

• Recognized by Texas Monthly Law & Politics as a "Texas Rising Star," 2006-2009
• President's Award for Outstanding Service, Houston Bar Association, 2010-2011

ADMISSIONS

• State Bar of Texas (2003)
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (2004)
• Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (2006)

COMMUNITY SERVICE

• Chair-elect, Houston Bar Association Antitrust & Trade Regulation Section (2010-2011)
• Co-chair, Houston Bar Association Communities in Schools Legal Internship Committee (2009-2011)
• Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation.