Melissa Nicholson Sternfels

With a focus on fiduciary law, she has represented employees, oil and gas companies, insurance agents, trust beneficiaries and business partners in a wide range of disputes including tortious interference with business opportunity, breach of throughput agreement, construction defect, breach of fiduciary duty, covenant not to compete claims and fraud.

In addition to her litigation practice, she serves as outside “general counsel” to Texas-based companies and high net-worth individuals, advising on matters ranging from employment disputes to corporate governance.

PRACTICE AREAS

• Commercial Litigation

• Construction

• Energy Litigation

• Insurance Coverage and Litigation

• Labor and Employment

• Real Estate

BAR ADMISSIONS

• United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas

• United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas

• United States District Court for the Western District of Texas

• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

EDUCATION

• University of Houston, Juris Doctorate, 2002

• University of Texas at Dallas, Bachelor of Arts, History, 1999

DISTINCTIONS AND AFFILIATIONS

• Thomson Reuters, Texas Rising Star Super Lawyer, 2006

• H Texas Magazine, One of Houston’s Top Civil Litigators, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016

• Aspiring Youth of Houston, National Volunteer of the Year, 2005

• Houston Bar Association