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1 NEIL L. SOBOL Texas A&M University School of Law 1515 Commerce Street Fort Worth, Texas (817) EDUCATION SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, J.D. May 1988 Honors: Cum laude Order of the Coif SMU Law School Alumni Full Tuition Scholarship Varsity Book Store Award for work on Southwestern Law Journal Activities: Southwestern Law Journal, Notes & Comments Editor Moot Court Chief Justice STANFORD UNIVERSITY, M.S. in Statistics, June 1985 STANFORD UNIVERSITY, B.A. in Economics, June 1985 Honors: With Distinction National Merit Corporate Scholarship Omicron Delta Epsilon, Economics Honor Society Activities: Research Assistant for Joel Slemrod, National Fellow at the Hoover Institution ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS : TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW Associate Professor (2013 Present) Director of Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing Program (2013 Present) Courses: Legislation and Regulation (2013 Present) Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing (2013 Present) TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW Associate Professor ( ) Director of Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing Program ( ) Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing Professor ( ) Adjunct Professor of Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing ( )

2 NEIL L. SOBOL PAGE 2 Courses: Legislation and Regulation ( ) Elements of Legal Studies ( ) Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing ( ) Honors: Voted Outstanding 1L Writing Prof. (School year: ) Voted Outstanding 1L Writing Prof. (School year: ) Voted Prof. of Year, Legal Writing (School year: ) Voted Prof. of Year, Legal Writing (School year: ) Voted Outstanding 1L Night Writing Prof. (School year: ) Voted Outstanding 1L Night Writing Prof. (School year: ) OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Partner, Thomas & Sobol, Dallas, Texas ( ) Litigation and bankruptcy law. Of Counsel, Roberts & Smaby, P.C., Dallas, Texas ( ) Litigation and bankruptcy law. Bankruptcy Instructor, CPE, Inc. ( ) Adjunct Professor, Southern Methodist University Business School ( ) Undergraduate Business Law Class. Associate, McCauley, MacDonald, Love & Devin, Dallas, Texas ( ) Litigation and bankruptcy law. Associate, Locke Purnell Rain Harrell, Dallas, Texas ( ) Bankruptcy law. ARTICLES Protecting Consumers from Zombie Debt Collectors, 44 NEW MEXICO LAW REVIEW 327 (2014). Cited in 48 UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE LAW LETTER (Feb. 2015) Cited in Peter A. Holland, Junk Justice: A Statistical Analysis of 4,400 Lawsuits Filed by Debt Buyers, 27 LOYOLA CONSUMER LAW REVIEW 179 (2014) Cited in ALICE Model Fair Debt Buying Practices Act (2014) Current Bankruptcy Law Issues Relating To Oil And Gas Industry, with John Flowers, in FORTY FIRST ANNUAL INSTITUTE ON OIL AND GAS LAW AND TAXATION (1990). Determining Limitation Periods for Actions Arising Under Federal Statutes, 41 SOUTHWESTERN LAW JOURNAL 895 (1987).

of Year, Legal Writing (School year: 2005 2006) Voted Outstanding 1L Night Writing Prof. (School year: 2003 2004) Voted Outstanding 1L Night Writing Prof.

3 NEIL L. SOBOL PAGE 3 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Invited to edit the 2015 online Texas Exercises for the INTERACTIVE CITATION WORKBOOK (LexisNexis). Surviving Zombie-Debt Collectors: A Texas A&M Law Professor s Guide, Oct. 31, 2014 at Writing Persuasively: Winning with Charlie Sheen, paper provided to participants at the 2014 National Federation of Paralegal Association s Annual Convention in Dallas, Texas, October 9, Bankruptcy Law: Dot Coms or Dot-Gones?, 16 TEXAS LAWYER 75 (2000) (with Michelle Roberts). WORKS IN PROGRESS Charging the Poor: Criminal Justice Debt & Modern Day Debtors Prisons, (submitted in spring 2015). PRESENTATIONS AND INTERVIEWS Invited to be a participant in a discussion panel entitled Reversing Mass Incarceration: What Reforms are Working (or Could Work) and Why? at the 2015 Southeastern Association of Law Schools conference to be held in Boca Raton, Florida on July 27 August 2, Presentation proposal accepted, Charging the Poor: Criminal Justice Debt & Modern Day Debtors Prisons, for Law & Society Annual Meeting to be held in Seattle, WA, May 28 31, Presenter, Charging the Poor: Criminal Justice Debt & Modern Day Debtors Prisons, Faculty Speaker Series at Texas A&M School of Law, March 18, Presenter, Charging the Poor: Criminal Justice Debt & Modern Day Debtors Prisons, at ClassCrits VII Poverty, Precarity, and Work: Struggle and Solidarity in an Era of Permanent(?) Crisis, at King Hall, UC Davis School of Law, November 15, Presenter, Charging the Poor: Modern Day Debtors Prisons, at the Central States Law Schools Association Annual Scholarship Conference at the Louisiana State University Paul M. Herbert Law Center, October 11, 2014.

Writing Persuasively: Winning with Charlie Sheen, paper provided to participants at the 2014 National Federation of Paralegal Association s Annual Convention in Dallas, Texas, October 9, 2014.

4 NEIL L. SOBOL PAGE 4 Presenter (invited), Writing Persuasively for Paralegals at the 2014 National Federation of Paralegal Association s Annual Convention in Dallas, Texas, October 9, 2014 (related paper was included in seminar materials). Presenter (invited), Editing for Law Review, to the staff and editors of Texas A&M University Law Review, August 22, Interviewed, Ask the Experts: Bankruptcy FAQ, (July 2014) available at information/. Presenter (invited), Legal Research Then and Now, at the 32nd Annual Texas Forum at the Cityplace Conference Center in Dallas, Texas on February 28, The event sponsored by the State Bar of Texas Standing Committee on Paralegals was part of a program entitled Back to the Future: The Foundation of the Legal Profession. Presenter (invited), Protecting Consumers from Zombie Debt Collectors, at St. Mary s School of Law in San Antonio, Texas on February 18, The presentation was part of a faculty exchange through the Southern Central Association of Law Schools. Presenter (invited), Critical Reading & Writing Skills: Undergraduate Work and the LSAT Exam as part of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity s program on the Road to Law School held at Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, Texas, September 28, Presenter (invited), Mock Admissions Panel as part of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity s program on the Road to Law School held at Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, Texas, September 28, Presenter (invited), Attacking Zombie Debts at the Legal Writing Institute s Writer s Workshop, Delavan, Wisconsin, June 30, Presenter, Attacking Zombie Debts at the Eighth International Conference on Contracts, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, Fort Worth, Texas, February 22, Featured Speaker, Persuasive Writing: What to do if you represent Charlie Sheen as part of the Texas Advanced Paralegal Seminar Program held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Addison, Texas, October 5, 2012 (related paper was included in seminar materials). Presenter (invited), Clicker Training to the Texas Wesleyan University School of Law Faculty, Fort Worth, Texas, August 13, Interviewed, Valence Bankruptcy Stirs Concerns Among Shareholders, Austin American Statesman (July 28, 2012).

included in seminar materials). Presenter (invited), Editing for Law Review, to the staff and editors of Texas A&M University Law Review, August 22, 2014.

5 NEIL L. SOBOL PAGE 5 Presenter (invited), Legal Research: A Review for the CLA Exam to the Fort Worth Paralegal Association, Fort Worth, Texas, December 10, Presenter (invited), Persuasive Writing: What to do if you represent Charlie Sheen as part of the Texas Advanced Paralegal Seminar Program held at the Marriott Hotel, Fort Worth, Texas, October 5, 2011 (related paper was included in seminar materials). Presenter (invited), Introduction to Legal Writing as part of the Diversity University program sponsored by the Dallas Area Paralegal Association and the North Texas Paralegal Association, Belo Mansion, Dallas, Texas, May 6, Presenter (invited), Legal Research: A Review for the CLA Exam to the Fort Worth Paralegal Association, Fort Worth, Texas, December 18, Presenter (invited), Introduction to Logical Reasoning and Critical Thinking as part of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity s program on the Road to Law School held at Texas Wesleyan Law School, Fort Worth, Texas, September 25, Presenter (invited), Legal Research: A Review of Bluebook Citations, including an Introduction to the 19th Edition Changes to the Paralegal Division of the Texas State Bar, Fort Worth, Texas, August 6, Presenter (invited), Persuasive Writing as part of the Diversity University program sponsored by the Dallas Area Paralegal Association and the North Texas Paralegal Association at the Belo Mansion in Dallas, Texas, May 14, Presenter (invited), Persuasive Writing" to the Fort Worth Paralegal Association, Petroleum Club, Fort Worth, Texas, May 24, SERVICE ACTIVITIES National Service American Association of Law Schools: Media Committee for AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research (2012) Association of Legal Writing Directors (2010 Present) Legal Writing Institute: Website and Social Media Committee, Co Chair ( ) Website Redesign Committee ( ) Website Committee ( ) Operations Subcommittee of the Website Committee ( ) Long Term Planning Subcommittee of the Website and Communications Committee ( )

2011 (related paper was included in seminar materials).

6 NEIL L. SOBOL PAGE 6 Assistant Editor, Volume 16, Journal of the Legal Writing Institute (2010) National Order of Scribes, Brief Screener for National Brief Award ( ) School Service Faculty Committee Service has included service on the following committees: Academic Support Admissions Assessment Bar Passage Bar Scholarship Subcommittee Curriculum Faculty Development Library Technology (law school) Technology (university) Service to Student Groups have served as faculty advisor for the following groups: Presenting Legal Activities to Youth (P.L.A.Y.) Rocket Dockets Fitness group Bankruptcy Law Society Jewish Law Students Association Mock Trial Coach ( ) Community Service North Texas Coaching Committee, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Team in Training Program (2012 present) Marathon Coach, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Team in Training Program ( ). Trained over 1000 athletes who have raised over $1.5 million for the Society. (Tier I and Tier II Certified Marathon Coach, Certified in CPR, Certified in First Aid)

Service has included service on the following committees: Academic Support Admissions Assessment Bar Passage Bar Scholarship Subcommittee Curriculum Faculty Development Library Technology (law

7 NEIL L. SOBOL PAGE 7 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Association of Legal Writing Directors (2010 Present) American Bar Association (2004 Present) Business Law Section ( ) Consumer Financial Services Committee (2013) Tarrant County Bar Association (2003 Present) Bankruptcy Section ( ) Legal Writing Institute (2003 Present) State Bar of Texas (1988 present) Appellate Section ( ) Bankruptcy Section ( )

Association (2004 Present) Business Law Section (2012 2013) Consumer Financial Services Committee (2013)

DARREN B. MOORE Bourland, Wall & Wenzel, P.C. 301 Commerce Street Fort Worth, Texas

DARREN B. MOORE Bourland, Wall & Wenzel, P.C. 301 Commerce Street Fort Worth, Texas Phone: (817) 877-1088 Email: dmoore@bwwlaw.com Twitter: @darrenbmoore Mr. Moore practices with Bourland, Wall & Wenzel,