Jermaine Watson assists clients with matters related to creditors’ rights and bankruptcy. With experience counseling clients in the construction, energy, healthcare and financial services industries, Jermaine’s practice focuses primarily on Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganizations and bankruptcy-related litigation. He has represented Chapter 11 bankruptcy debtors, secured creditors and trade creditors before bankruptcy courts in the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas, the Western District of Arkansas and the Southern District of New York. |
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
- American Bankruptcy Institute, Business Reorganization Committee
- American Bar Association, Business Law Section, Business Bankruptcy Committee
- Dallas Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section
- Dallas Fort Worth Association of Young Bankruptcy Lawyers, Vice President
- Missouri Bar Association
- Texas Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section, Young Lawyer Committee, Chair
- Turnaround Management Association, Young Professionals Committee, Chair
- J.L. Turner Legal Association
- National Black MBA Association, Dallas / Fort Worth Chapter
- The Dallas Business Club
- The College of the State Bar of Texas
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PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
- Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law, Articles Editor, Editorial Board, 2002-2003
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| Clerkships
- Law Clerk, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, The Honorable Kathy A. Surratt-States, 2003-2007
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Education - University of Tennessee, J.D., 2003
- University of Tennessee, M.B.A., 2003
- Elon University, B.A., cum laude, 1999
Admitted to Practice - Texas, 2008
- Missouri, 2006
- United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit
- United States District Court Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Districts of Texas
- United States District Court Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas
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