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Marjorie R. Perry

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Marjorie Perry is an experienced attorney, mediator, and counselor at law. She is also a certified ad litem and has been trained in collaborative law. The majority of her clients are located in Harris County, Montgomery County, Galveston County, Fort Bend County, and Waller County; however, her client base extends to Bexar County and south Texas. She has also appeared in Travis County and the federal bankruptcy court in the Western District of Texas. Her practice focuses primarily on probate and estate planning; guardianship and elder law; consumer law, including collection and traffic defense and landlord-tenant disputes; and family law, including foreign adoption registration and cases involving members of the military. She also serves as a mediator for probate, elder, and family law issues, as well as for consumer and neighborhood disputes. In addition to individual clients, Ms. Perry represents small businesses, addressing a range of issues, including but not limited to, minority business ownership, contract compliance, business entity formations and agreements, limestone and other mineral leases, and construction liens. Early in her career, Ms. Perry was an associate at an insurance defense practice with a toxic tort, agency defense, and general liability docket; she also worked with a plaintiff firm involved in mass tort litigation of pharmaceutical cases. She has been licensed to practice law since May 2002.

Prior to her 2001 graduation from South Texas College of Law in Houston, Ms. Perry worked in corporate America for many years. She has also worked for various governmental agencies and was a speaker, trainer, and consultant for several corporate clients in the Houston area. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in languages, before moving to Houston.

Because of her noteworthy contributions to the State of Texas during its year-long Sesquicentennial celebration in 1996, Governor George Bush named Ms. Perry, a sixth-generation Texan, a “Yellow Rose of Texas.” Her other statewide volunteer efforts include having been a member of the Development Council for the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and serving on the Board of Management for the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. She is also a long-time member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Prior to commencing her legal career, Ms. Perry founded a company that was named Small Business of the Year by the Houston Chapter of the American Society for Training & Development and she was named Member of the Year by the Association of Urban Women Entrepreneurs. In addition to having been an active member of both organizations, she was also an active member of the National Speakers Association and Meeting Planners International. Since becoming an attorney, she has been a member of various professional organizations, participated in community outreach programs sponsored by the Houston Bar Association, and served as a member of the Association of Women Attorneys’ Scholarship and Judicial Screening Committees. She has also made pro bono presentations for the Houston Young Lawyers Association Leadership Program and the Career Resources Office at South Texas College of Law. While attending law school, she held a third-year bar card through the STCL Clinic and represented clients who qualified for pro bono services in probate and family law matters

Memberships include:

• State Bar of Texas
• College of the State Bar of Texas
• Houston Bar Association
• Real Estate, Probate & Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Texas
• Probate Section of the Houston Bar Associations
• Association of Women Attorneys

Admitted to Practice:

• State Bar of Texas
• United States District Court, Southern District of Texas