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ATTORNEY
Elizabeth Cano
Elizabeth, a native of Lincoln, Nebraska, earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Political Science, summa cum laude, from Vanderbilt University in 2007. She earned her law degree from Harvard Law School in 2010.
Location: Beaumont, Texas
Phone: 409-203-5030
Fax: 409-838-8888
Email: Contact Elizabeth
Elizabeth is licensed to practice in both Nebraska and Texas. After graduating from law school, Elizabeth served as a law clerk to the Honorable C. Arlen Beam on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. She then worked in private practice for both small and large firms in Nebraska and Texas, focusing on commercial litigation, professional malpractice litigation, personal injury litigation, and appellate litigation. She also worked in state government, serving as an administrative law judge and as legal counsel to a state agency. Elizabeth has experience briefing and arguing motions in state and federal courts and representing parties in administrative proceedings. She has argued before the Texas and Nebraska Supreme Courts and intermediate appellate courts.
Elizabeth has coached both mock trial and moot court teams at the collegiate and law school levels and frequently serves as a volunteer judge for local competitions. She has authored the competition problem for the American Bar Association’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition seven times.
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Areas of Practice
- Appellate Litigation
- Personal Injury
Bar Admissions
- Texas, 2010
- Nebraska, 2016
- U.S. District Court District of Nebraska
Education
Harvard Law School
- Doctor of Jurisprudence – 2010
- Involvement: Articles Editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Criminal Justice Institute Clinical, Death Penalty Defense Clinical, Research Assistant
Vanderbilt University
- Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude – 2007
- Majors: Economics and Political Science
- Honors: Best Undergraduate Political Science Paper (2006)
- Honors: Top Philosophy Student (2006)
Professional Associations and Memberships
- State Bar of Texas
- State Bar of Nebraska
- Labor and Employment Law Section
- Nebraska Association of Trial Attorneys Phi Beta Kappa
Community Involvement
- St. Peter’s Catholic Church
- Citizen’s Climate Lobby
- Volunteer coach and judge for mock trial and moot court teams