Marcus D. Pinney, Attorney

Education

• B.B.A, graduating cum laude, from Lamar University, 2001
• Juris Doctorate, magna cum laude, from the University of Houston, 2004
  • Articles Editor: Houston Journal of Int’l Law
  • President: Employment & Labor Law Society
  • Order of the Coif
  • Baker & McKenzie Writing Award – 2002

Publications

• A Constitutional Dilemma: The Conflict of the Title VII Alien Exemption Clause with the Civil Rights Act of 1991, 26 Hous. J. Int’l L. 707 (2004). This article was chosen by the State Bar of Texas – Labor and Employment Law Section as the 2004 outstanding law review article in Texas concerning labor and employment.

Memberships

• State Bar of Texas
• Houston Bar Association
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association
• American Association for Justice

Experience

• Interned for the Honorable Wesley Steen, Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
• Marc began working for Williams Kherkher as a law clerk in 2002.

Licensed to practice

• All Texas State Courts
• U.S. District Court for Southern District of Texas

Prior to becoming an attorney, Marc was a small business owner and a restaurant general manager.