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Marti Cherry joined the Houston office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. in 2008 and recently transferred to fhe firm's Dallas office.
As a litigation attorney in Fulbright's international section, Marti represents foreign and domestic clients in federal and state court and international arbitration. Her practice focuses on complex commercial contract disputes in the energy industry for upstream, energy-services, and manufacturing clients.
Marti has represented clients in state and federal court and volunteered for five months as a city prosecutor, trying cases in municipal court.
An active participant in the energy community, Marti chairs the Women's Energy Network's Mentor Program with more than 125 participants, piloting a 2011 Corporate Partner Program that provides mentoring services for mid- to senior-level executive women at BP and Mustang Engineering.
From 2006 to 2008, Marti clerked for the Honorable Judge David Hittner in the United States District for the Southern District of Texas. Prior to law school, she worked in the energy industry in a family-owned business that located a merger candidate for Helmerich and Payne's E&P division in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A successful merger resulted in the formation of Cimarex.
- Assisted in the representation of a Japanese chemical company in federal court winning dismissal of all claims
- Assisted in the representation of an international upstream oil and gas company's claims against a foreign government regarding offshore oil and gas lease
- Advised foreign exploration and production company regarding its participation agreement in offshore leases located in the Gulf of Mexico
- Advised international manufacturing client regarding liability for allegedly defective goods that client supplied to operator for construction of a floating, production, storage and offloading facility in the Gulf of Mexico under Texas or Louisiana Oilfield Indemnity Act and/or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
- Conducted internal investigation of European commodities company's import / export compliance in global trade operations
- Advised Finnish client regarding application of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), Convention on International Sale of Goods (CISG), and products liability law to potential dispute regarding manufacture and supply of allegedly non-conforming steel
- Participated in two-week state court trial and mediation of partnership dispute regarding international hotel
- Successfully defended tenant in commercial property lease dispute
- First-chaired multiple jury trials as a volunteer prosecutor in municipal court
- Texas Alliance of Energy Producers
- Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN)
- American Bar Association, International Section and International Courts Committee
- State Bar of Texas
- Dallas, Tarrant County, and Houston Bar Associations, International and Energy Sections
- Co-Author with Laurie Weiss, Stephanie Smith and Leaf McGregor, "E-Discover-Emerging Legal Issues and Guiding Law," Chapter 27, Product Liability Litigation: Current Law, Strategies and Best Practices (forthcoming)
- Faculty Script Writer, "Litigating the Merits of an International Arbitration," 22nd Annual Institute for Transnational Arbitration Workshop, 2011
- Headnote: Compania de Aguas del Aconquija SA and Vivendi Universal SA v. Argentina, Decision on Annulment, ICSID Case No. ARB/97/3, IIC 70 (2002), Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
- Headnote: Archer Daniels Midland Company and Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas, Inc. v. Mexico, Award and Separate Opinion, ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/04/04; IIC 329 (2007), Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
- Headnote: France Telecom Mobiles International SA and FTML SAL v. Lebanon, Swiss Challenge No. 1. 4P.98.2005/svc, IIC 283 (2005), Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
- Headnote: France Telecom Mobiles International SA and FTML SAL v. Lebanon, Swiss Challenge No. 2. 4P.9154..2005/svc, IIC 284 (2005), Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
- Co-Author with Lucy Greenwood, "U.S. Signs the Convention on Choice of Court Agreements," Fulbright Client Briefing, January 28, 2009
- Practice Tips for Handling Depositions on E-discovery Document Search Procedures, Fulbright & Jaworski, September 29, 2011
- Panelist for 6th Annual Dallas Roundtable, Presenting the Case to the Tribunal, 22nd Annual ITA Workshop, Dallas, Texas, June 15, 2011
- International Law Presentation Panelist, State Bar of Texas - International Law Section and International Law Society of the University of Houston Law Center, February 28, 2011
- Judge for 2011 Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition
- "Final Award & Court Challenges," Houston Maritime Arbitrators Association, Arbitrator Training Course, September 30, 2010
2006 - J.D., magna cum laude, South Texas College of Law
1980 - B.A., Secondary Education - English, Tennessee Temple University
While in law school, Marti was a member of the Law Review. She was admitted to practice law in Texas in 2006.
- United Way Women's Initiative
- Women's Energy Network
- World Affairs Council
- Leadership Houston, Class XXVI
