Liza Farrow-Gillespie

Liza Farrow-Gillespie
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Practice Areas
Federal Court Procedure
Taxation
Corporate Law
Asset Protection Planning
Non-Profit Organizations

Bar Admissions
Texas, 1992

Education
J.D., with honors, The University of Texas, 1992
B.B.A. (Accounting), The University of Texas, 1989

Biography
Liza Farrow-Gillespie practices law in the areas of business law and litigation, estate and asset protection planning, probate, nonprofit organizations, and elderlaw. Former permanent briefing attorney to the late United States District Judge Barefoot Sanders until his retirement in 2007, Liza also consults on federal court procedure and protocol.

Ms. Farrow-Gillespie is a 1992 honors graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, where she was executive editor of the Texas Law Review, recipient of the Dean's Distinguished Achievement Award in constitutional law, and a member of the Order of the Coif. She received the Texas Law Review Association's "Outstanding Editor" award and Assault & Flattery's "Outstanding Achievement" award. Liza is a former litigation associate with the Dallas firm of Cohan Simpson Cowlishaw and Wulff LLP, now merged with Jackson Walker LLP. Ms. Farrow-Gillespie's professional memberships include the Dallas Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA), the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the Screen Actors Guild.

Ms. Farrow-Gillespie is a licensed open-ocean sailing captain, and in 2004 completed a two-person circumnavigation on a 54-foot sloop. Her book Three-Sixty is set for publication in 2012. She is a member of the American Constitution Society, the Dallas Democratic Forum, Attorneys Serving the Community, the Texas Exes, the Kappa Alpha Theta Alumnae Association, and genealogical societies including Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Daughters of the American Revolution, the Huguenot Society, Colonial Dames, and Magna Carta Dames. A former professional studio musician in Los Angeles, Liza released two CDs in the mid-1990s with the all-lawyer Dallas blues band, "Rough Justice." Liza serves on the board of directors for No Child in Pain (Foundation for Pediatric Pain Management) and on the Board of Trustees of the Dallas Opera. A cancer survivor, she was until January 2012 an active fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Event, which she completed in 2007 and 2008.

Liza enjoys playing bridge and chess, blogging about music, and flying in her Cessna 182T. She and her husband, Alan C. Farrow-Gillespie, M.D., will celebrate their 28th wedding anniversary in 2012.


	Recent Events
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	Spoke on panel at Women's Forum meeting of the Texas General Counsel Forum, January 2012.
	Participated on program for investiture of United States Attorney, Northern District of Texas, November 2011.
	Sponsored Annie's List annual luncheon at Westin Galleria, October 2011.
	Presented asset protection planning seminars at NBI event, August 2011.
	Elected as a Fellow of the Texas State Bar Foundation, January 2011.
	Named to the Board of Trustees of the Dallas Opera, July 2010.
	Sponsored annual luncheon of Attorneys Serving the Community, benefitting YWCA of Dallas, June 2010.
	Named to the editorial board of the NAELA Journal, published by the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, October 2009.
	Sponsored and participated in the program of the annual Justice Is Served dinner for the benefit of Dallas CASA, October 22, 2009.
	Presented "Successful Elderlaw Planning for You and Your Aging Loved Ones" at the Women's Business Council Southwest, August 4, 2009.
	Presented continuing legal education topics at NBI Institute "Estate Planning and Recovery for Elderly Clients," July 24, 2009.
	Presented "Advising the Elderly Client" at a Dallas Bar Association continuing legal education event, June 19, 2009.
	Spoke at unveiling ceremony for official portrait of the late Hon. Barefoot Sanders at the federal courthouse, Northern District of Texas.


Farrow-Gillespie & Heath LLP
Attorneys and Counselors Dallas, Texas