Ms. Peterson provides practical, pragmatic mediation services for state and federal civil cases. Ms. Peterson has arbitrated over 150 cases to date as chair, panel member, or sole arbitrator, including ad-hoc cases. She is a sought-after educator on mediation, arbitration, and ethics.

• Class Action & Mass Tort
• Construction
• Cyberspace & Privacy
• Employment Law
• Energy & Utilities
• Health Systems
• Insurance
• Intellectual Property
• Mediation
• Personal Injury & Torts
• Real Estate

• TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY, MA PROGRAM, 2021-
  PRESENT
  • Master of History program, currently enrolled
  • 4.0 GPA / 18 hours completed
• SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW, JD, 2010
  • ABA Regional Negotiation Competition Champion, 2009
  • ABA National Negotiation Competition Competitor, 2009
  • Vis Moot Brief Writer, 2010
• UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, BA HISTORY, 2007
  • Graduated Magna Cum Laude
  • Provost’s Undergraduate Research Scholarship
  • History Honors Society

• MEDIATOR
  Texas Department of Insurance
  Mediation Panel Member
• ARBITRATOR
  Panel Membership:
  AAA: Consumer
  FINRA
  Chair: FINRA
• ADMISSIONS
  State Bar of Texas
  State Bar of New York
  Southern District of Texas
  Eastern District of Texas
  Senior Courts of England and
  Wales
• PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
  • Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Fellow, Houston Bar Foundation
  • Member, Texas Bar Honors College
  • Member, Houston International Arbitration Club
  • Member, Association of Attorney Mediators
  • Member, Houston Bar Association
  • Member, Mexican American Bar Association of Houston
  • Member, Muslim-American Bar Association of Houston
  • Member, Hispanic Bar Association of Houston
• EXECUTIVE POSITIONS AND COMMITTEES
  • Chair and Founder, Texas Volunteer Mediator Association
• AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
  • Super Lawyers: ADR
  o 2021 and 2022 Award Years
  • Super Lawyers: Rising Star
  o 2020 Award Year
  • Houstonia Magazine: Top Attorney
  o 2018 – 2021
• RECENT PAPERS AND ARTICLES
  • Gender Bias in Appellate Advocacy
  o Advanced Appellate Conference 2021
  • Brackets Belong in Baseball, Lexology, June 2021
  • Avoiding Tragedy in Mediation, Lexology, May 2021
  • Dispositive Motions in Arbitration: Cracking Open the Black Box
  o Houston Lawyer Magazine, January/February
  2021 Edition
• RECENT ADR & ETHICS INSTRUCTION
  • Arbitration: Ethical Considerations Pre-Dispute
  o 28th Annual Ethics Symposium, South Texas
  College of Law, February 2022
  • Implicit Bias: What’s all the fuss?
  o Texas Minority Counsel Program 2021
  • Implicit Bias for Criminal Defense Attorneys, May 2021
  o Harris County Public Defender’s Office
  • Implicit Bias for Attorneys, October 2020
  o Bexar County Women Attorney Association
  • Acts of Allyship, August 2020
  o Bexar County Women Attorney Association
  • Implicit Bias: Ethics for Mediators, July 2020
  o Montgomery County Dispute Resolution Center
  • LGBTQIA Issues in Mediation, July 2020
  o Montgomery County Dispute Resolution Center
  • What’s Next: A Series on adaptive law during COVID, May 2020
  • Implicit Bias: Addressing and Correcting, February 2020
  o Muslim Bar Association of Houston• Handling Difficult Clients, February 2020
  o Houston Bar Association’s Annual CLE Day
  • Tales from the Crypt: Avoiding the Grievance Process,November 2019
  o Galveston Bar Association
  • When to Mediate and How to Prepare, August 2019
  o Houston Young Lawyers Association (HYLA)
  • Ethics in Mediation, July 2019
  o Texas State Bar Summer Conference
• PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
  • FINRA Chairperson, 2021
  • AAA Consumer Panelist, 2021
  • Maritime Arbitration Certificate – Lloyd’s of London, 2018
  • Qualified Lawyer’s Transfer Scheme, 2018
  • Path to Fellowship, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators,2017
  • Forty-Hourur Mediation Certificate, 2016
  • Arbitration Certification, 2016

• Houston, TX

• English