Pathways Panel: Plaintiff Advocates

Pathways Series Event
September 20, 2023

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September 20, 2023


The Pathways Series empowers students to learn more about and engage with various legal careers and professionals. Through the Pathways Series, the Center highlights a variety of career paths and successful lawyers. The program exposes Texas Law students to the diversity of the legal field and provides opportunities for mentorship and networking. The program supports professional development for Texas Law students beginning their careers and for more senior professionals. This program is valuable to first-generation students and students and lawyers from underrepresented groups.

On September 20, 2023, the Center, in conjunction with Texas Law Career Services and the Plaintiffs' Advocacy & Litigation Society (PALS), will host a panel at Texas Law featuring women in the law profession who have extensive experience representing plaintiffs in a variety of cases. The discussion will center on plaintiff advocacy and their career journeys. The panel will be moderated by Michelle Cheng. 

This event includes the following panelists and moderator:

Laurie Higginbotham - Partner, National Trial Law

Elecia Byrd - Trial Lawyer & Docket Manager, Zinda Law Group

Lisa Baldwin - Partner, Nix Patterson

Moderator: Michelle Cheng - Partner, National Trial Law
 

Event panelists

Laurie Higginbotham

Partner, National Trial Law

Laurie Higginbotham is a trial and appellate lawyer with a national practice representing victims of catastrophic injury, with a special focus on Federal Tort Claims Act cases. She is a partner with National Trial Law in Austin, Texas.

Elecia Byrd

Trial Lawyer & Docket Manager, Zinda Law Group

Elecia Byrd is a native Texan with a passion for helping others. A member of the Zinda Law’s personal injury section in Austin, she focuses her practice on automobile accidents, product injuries, traumatic brain injuries, premises liability, dog bites, and more.

Event Moderator

Michelle Cheng

Partner, National Trial Law

Michelle Cheng is a principal at Whitehurst, Harkness, Brees, Cheng, Alsaffar, Higginbotham & Jacob, P.L.L.C., in Austin, where she has handled serious personal injury and medical malpractice cases for the last 27 years.