Barton, East & Caldwell, L.L.P.
Associate, December 2006 to present
Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate, including Sales, Acquisitions, Leases and Lending; Estate Planning from Wills to Probate; Business Organizations; Civil Litigation.
St. Mary's University School of Law
Adjunct Professor – Spring 2009 – ongoing
Teaching Legal Research and Writing to first year law students.
Solo Practitioner, June - December 2006
Practice Areas: Estate Planning; Misdemeanor Criminal Defense; Family Law
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, September 2005-June 2006
Briefing Attorney
Probate & Property Magazine – a Publication of the Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section of the American Bar Association
Contributing Editor for the Keeping Current Column
Spring 2004 to present
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals – Justice Emilio M. Garza
Intern – Spring 2005
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals – Justice Edward C. Prado
Intern – Spring 2004
USAA, Claims Adjuster, February 1994 - August 2002
St. Mary’s University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas
Juris Doctor, May 2005
Student Activities
- The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues, Staff Writer
- Teaching Assistant for Beginning and Advanced Legal Research
- Contributing Editor for Keeping Current, a bi-monthly column in the ABA's Real Property and Probate magazine
- Moot Court Competition, Quarter-Finalist
- Federal Bar Association 2003 Student of the Year Award
- Student Bar Association - Senator
- Phi Delta Phi (Honors Fraternity)
Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas
Master of Arts, English Literature, 2002
The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Bachelor of Arts, Major: English Literature, Minor: Psychology, 1990
Vincent R. Johnson & Claire G. Hargrove, The Tort Duty of Parents to Protect Minor Children, 51 VILL. L. REV. 311 (2006).
Gerry W. Beyer & Claire G. Hargrove, Digital Wills: Has the Time Come for Wills to Join the Digital Revolution?, 33 OHIO N. U. L. REV. 865 (2007).
