Shalla Santos primarily practices in the area of construction litigation. She joined the firm in 2007, after serving as a briefing attorney for Justice Don R. Willett at the Supreme Court of Texas. Shalla graduated from Harvard University in 2000, with an A.B. in History, focusing on the Medieval period. She was honored as a Malcolm Haughton Holmes Scholar for excellence in music in 1996, and she received a Harvard College Scholarship for high academic achievement. In 2006, Shalla graduated with honors from The University of Texas School of Law, where she was a member of The Review of Litigation. While in law school, Shalla received a number of academic and advocacy awards. She was a national champion in the Giles Sutherland Rich Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition, the seventh-best oral advocate in the John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court Competition, a quarter-finalist in the Hispanic National Bar Association Moot Court Competition, a member of the Phillip C. Jessup International and the Texas Young Lawyers Association interscholastic moot court teams, and a finalist in the Thad T. Hutcheson Moot Court Competition. As a result of these achievements, she was selected as a member of the Order of Barristers. Shalla also received Dean’s Achievement Awards as the top student in Medical Practice and the Law and Constitutional Law II.
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