EDUCATION
LEGAL: University of Texas School of Law, J.D., August 1986
Highest Honors in Banking Law
Achievement Award: Dean's Award for Distinction in Banking Law
Doctor of Jurisprudence Award in Banking Law
Independent Research: U.S. Banking Law - National Bank: A Little Handbook of the Little Practitioner (1986).
UNDERGRADUATE: St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas
B.A. in English Communication Arts, Summa Cum Laude (May 1982)
Dean's Honor Roll for four years (GPA 3.80)
AFFILIATIONS & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Co-Founder and Co-Chair -- The Asian Scholarship Fund at Rice University (1991).
Co-Founder and Co-Chair -- The Asian Scholarship Fund at Texas Southern University School of Law (1992-1993).
Co-Founder and Co-Chair -- The Asian Scholarship Fund at South Texas College of Law (1992-1993).
Heavily involved in assisting Missionary Work in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Africa.
FAMILY
Husband: Dr. Adam Tran
Son: Ba Nguyen Mau, Esq.
Daughter: Michelle Tran (pre-law)
LANGUAGES
Fluent in Vietnamese and English
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Present:
The Tammy Tran Law Firm
Attorneys at Law, L.P.
Practice primarily involved complex commercial litigation cases in Federal and State Courts. Represented high-profile product liability and personal injury cases. Represented top interstate companies in litigation cases in Federal and State Courts.
Sept. 1992-Aug. 1997
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. (Headquarters, Houston, Texas)
Aug. 1987-Aug. 1990 (Complex-Litigation Department)
Practice primarily involved state, national, and international complex commercial and product liability litigation cases in Federal and State Court, including high-profile breast-implant and personal injury cases.
Aug. 1990-Sept. 1992
Hon. Melinda Harmon, US District Court, Southern District of Texas
Position: Law Clerk
Assigned to all major cases involving complex commercial litigation concerning insurance companies and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Resolution Trust Corporation. Assisted the Court in handling commercial, banking, and multi-district litigation cases.
1985
Tindall & Foster
Position: Briefing Clerk
Assisted in preparation of cases dealing with international clients regarding international and immigration law.
LEGAL PUBLICATION AND LEGAL WRITING
Authored and Co-authored:
Assisted David J. Beck (Past President of the State Bar of Texas) in preparing a book, Legal Malpractice in Texas, published in 1991 by BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW. This is the only legal malpractice book that has ever been written in Texas. Mr. Beck also dedicated this entire book to Tammy Tran.
David Beck & Tammy Tran, The "Informed Consent" Rule - Duties and Obligations of Defense Counsel Retained by the Insurer to the Insured Physician in a Medical Malpractice Case, 107 Medical Journal, 50 (1990).
Tammy Tran, Trading in Vietnam (forthcoming): This is a series of articles regarding trading in Vietnam and its legal ramifications. A substantial part of these articles will be devoted to proposed amendments of the Foreign Investment Laws of Vietnam and proposed amendments concerning commercial law, contract law, petroleum law, security law, and dispute resolution for Vietnam.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & GOALS
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After leaving Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P. (the fifth largest law firm in the United States in the 1990’s), where she served in the litigation department for a total of eight years, Ms. Tran opened her private law firm in September 1997, concentrating her practice on commercial and complex commercial litigation. Ms. Tran has represented large Asian/American companies and banks in Houston, Texas and California with multimillion-dollar gross revenues in multistate and complex commercial litigation, and complex transactions involving giant national and international companies.
- Ms. Tran has represented numerous
plaintiff victims (including, but not limited to, Vietnamese-Americans
and others in the Asian community) in multimillion-dollar products
liability cases and personal injury cases against pharmaceutical
companies and large corporate entities. Her firm also handles a wide
range of commercial litigation disputes on behalf of both plaintiffs
and defendants.
- Ms. Tran’s Law Firm is one of the four law firms representing Jamie Olis, former officer of Dynegy, Inc, in the national Habeas Corpus case in the quest of “Justice for Jamie Olis."
- Ms. Tran is honored to be a part of the civil rights case, Ibarra v. Chuck Rosenthal et al; in this case Ms. Tran helped the legal team by rendering her pro-bono services.
- Ms. Tran's Law Firm is honored to
be called upon to serve and represent, along with the Ammons Law
Firm, a number of victims and families in the Sherman Bus Crash case
which occured on August 8, 2008.
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Previously, Ms. Tran worked in the litigation department of Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., where her practice primarily involved state, national, and international complex commercial and product liability litigation cases in Federal and State Court, including high-profile medical and legal malpractice cases and numerous breast-implant cases.
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Among a handful of Vietnamese attorneys in the United States who have ever been selected for a judicial clerkship, Ms. Tran has served as law clerk for Federal District Judge Melinda Harmon from 1990 to 1992. During her clerkship with Judge Harmon, Ms. Tran assisted the Court in handling commercial, banking, and complex multi-district litigation cases.
EDUCATION
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Ms. Tran was the first Vietnamese to be admitted to the University of Texas School of Law. She received her J.D. in August of 1986. She was awarded highest honors in banking law and the Dean’s Award for Distinction in Banking Law.
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Ms. Tran graduated Summa Cum Laude from St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas in 1992, with a B.A. in English Communications Arts.
