Margaret Chen Kercher
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Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 15 years of experience
Criminal Law
1411 West Avenue, Suite 124, Austin, TX 78701
About Margaret Chen Kercher
Practice Areas
- Criminal Law
Education
- Baylor University School of Law, Waco, Texas, 2007J.D.
- Honors: Order of the Barristers
- Honors: Baylor ATLA (now AAJ) Mock Trial Team
- Honors: First Place, Dawson & Sodd Moot Court Competition, Fall 2005
- Law Review: Baylor Law Review, Notes and Comments Editor
- University of Texas, Austin, Texas, May, 2003B.A.
- Honors: Honors Graduate
- Honors: University of Texas College Scholar
- Honors: Departmental Honors in Government
- Honors: University of Texas Mock Trial Association
- London School of Economics, 2003
Languages
- Mandarin Chinese
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Texas, 2008
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
Other Affiliations
- Texas Bar College (Member)
- Lloyd Lochridge Inn of Court (Member)
- Austin Criminal Defense Lawyers' Association (ACDLA) (Member)
- Austin Bar Association/Austin Young Lawyers Association (AYLA) (Member)
- Austin Asian-American Bar Association (Member)
- Travis County Women Lawyers Association (Member)
- Leadership Austin Emerge Class 2016 (Member)
- AYLA Leadership Academy 2016 (Member)
Past Positions
- Law Office of Margaret Chen Kercher, PLLC, 2010 - 2011
- Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd., 2009 - 2010
- Bovey & Bojorquez, LLP, 2008 - 2009
- Greg and Valby, LLP, 2007
- Mentor for the Capital Area Public Defense Service Misdemeanor Mentorship, Spring 2017
- Student of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers' Association (TCDLA) Trial College, 2015
- Travis County DWI Court, Staff Attorney, 2018 - 2021
- Travis County Phoenix Court, Staff Attorney, 2017 - 2018
- Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Manske, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas - Waco Division 2007, Intern
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