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Marcie Schout’s practice focuses on appellate work for the firm’s clients across various practice areas, including transportation and logistics, as well as the handling of insurance coverage matters, including both first party property and third-party liability issues. In addition, Marcie has overseen a large volume docket of foreclosure related litigation matters for a financial services client.

Marcie is also a member of the firm’s DE&I Committee where she works closely with other members of the team to promote recruitment of diverse talent and to mentor existing talent to help them to thrive.

Practice Areas

  Business Litigation

  Consumer Financial Litigation & Compliance

  Financial Institutions

  Insurance

  • State Bar of Texas, 2000
  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
  • United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
  • Baylor University, J.D. 2000 (summa cum laude)
  • Grand Valley State University, B.S. 1997 (magna cum laude)

All aspects of state and federal court litigation, including written discovery, depositions, motion preparation and briefing, hearings, and trial. Cases resolved by dispositive motion whenever possible to ensure efficiency and avoid delay.

Prepared appellate briefs and participated in oral argument before the state and federal Courts of Appeals.

  • SuperLawyers: “Texas Rising Stars” (Texas Monthly magazine, 2006-2013)
  • Matter of Burch, 835 Fed. Appx. 741 (5th Cir. 2021)
  • Northland Indus., Inc. v. Kouba, 19-0835, 2020 WL 6255405 (Tex. Oct. 23, 2020)
  • Bethel v. Quilling, Selander, Lownds, Winslett & Moser, P.C.,  595 S.W.3d 651 (Tex. 2020)
  • Daneshjou v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 799 Fed. Appx. 296, 297 (5th Cir. 2020)
  • Mt. Hawley Ins. Co. v. Huser Constr. Co., Inc., 797 Fed. Appx. 183, 184 (5th Cir. 2020)
  • Domel v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 795 Fed. Appx. 273, 274 (5th Cir. 2020)
  • Lall v. Bank of New York Mellon as Trustee to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 783 Fed. Appx. 375, 376 (5th Cir. 2019)
  • In re Marzwanian, 05-18-00485-CV, 2018 WL 2928057, at *4 (Tex. App. — Dallas June 12, 2018, no pet.)
  • Benamou v. Wells Fargo Bank Nat’l Ass’n for Carrington Mortgage Loan Tr., Series 2007-FRE1, Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, 711 Fed. Appx. 241 (5th Cir. 2018)
  • RLI Ins. Co. v. Costello, 697 Fed. Appx. 341, 342 (5th Cir. 2017)
  • Brown v. RK Hall Constr., LTD., 500 S.W.3d 509, 510 (Tex. App. — Texarkana 2016, pet. denied)
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