Garrick Farria

Law Clerk, Litigation

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES EMPHASIS

• Insurance Coverage Law
• Business Law and Commercial Litigation
• Tort Law and Personal Injury

PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY

Garrick Arthur Farria has extensive experience within the U.S. Labor Movement, working to resolve labor disputes across the United States. Over the course of his professional career, working with two of the largest service based and manufacturing unions in the United States, he has developed an expertise in every aspect of the Labor Relations field.

Mr. Farria also has an intimate understanding of NAFTA, CAFTA, and Fast Track and the impact these global trade agreements have on the U.S. manufacturing and industrial sectors. He knows the various challenges and opportunities that these types of agreements represent for U.S. businesses and their International competitors alike.

Garrick A. Farria is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and is a Hurricane Katrina evacuee who has rebuilt his life in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas.

EDUCATION

J.D., Texas Wesleyan University School of Law (anticipated 2010)
- Team Leader for the Wesleyan Innocence Project

Master of Arts, The Ohio State University (1998)
-Authored Thesis "A historiography of Pan-Africanism and its Relationship to the Emigrationist Movement from 1827 to 1908"

Bachelor of Arts, Temple University (1996)
- President of the African-American Studies Honor Society

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Texas Bar Association, Student Member
• JL Turner Legal Society, Student Member
• Dallas Bar Association, Student Member