Profile
Alyssa focuses her practice on commercial litigation, including breach of contract disputes, intellectual property disputes, employer/employee disputes, and fraud. Regardless of its nature, each matter is tailored to the client’s objectives and focused on organization and client communication. Her litigation experience covers pre-suit investigation, discovery, motion practice, settlement negotiations, trial preparation, and trial. Alyssa represents clients in a wide range of industries, including travel and transportation, health care, real estate, software, fashion, and financial services.
Alyssa also advises clients to reduce risks, enhance compliance, and avoid litigation.
Concentrations
- Complex commercial litigation
- Financial services litigation
- Health care litigation
- Business disputes
- General litigation
Capabilities
Experience
- Judicial Intern, Honorable Dale Tillery
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, "Ones to Watch," 2021-2025
- Commercial Litigation, 2021-2025
- Construction Law, 2022-2025
- Transportation Law, 2024-2025
- Team Member, a Law360 “Product Liability Practice Group of the Year,” 2021
- Member, Hispanic National Bar Association, 2021
- Selected, Latina Leadership Program, 2021
- Member, Dallas Bar Association, 2016-2020
- Member, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers, 2016-2020
- Member, Dallas CASA, 2019-2020
- Volunteer Attorney, Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program (DVAP), 2019-2020
- Membership Committee, Dallas Women Lawyers Association, 2019-2020
Credentials
Education
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J.D., cum laude, SMU Dedman School of Law, 2016
- Editor-in-Chief, Law and Business Review of the Americas
- B.A., University of Georgia, 2013
Admissions
- Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit