Shari Mao to Receive Belva Lockwood Outstanding Young Lawyer Award

September 22, 2015 | Attorney News



Each year, recipients are chosen based on contributions to the legal profession, work undertaken to improve the status of the legal profession, and contributions to the community in the form of charitable and volunteer work. Nominees are also evaluated based on experience, reputation, and standing in the legal community. The Young Lawyer Award is given to an attorney who has been in practice for fewer than seven years. Ms. Mao will be recognized during the Foundation’s Autumn Affair Event on October 22, 2015.

Shari is an associate with Jackson Walker’s corporate section. She was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States when she was 6 years old. Shari graduated from Duke University, and prior to law school, ran the North American operations for an international flooring company before negotiating its sale. Shari received her J.D. from St. Mary’s University School of Law. While a student in the immigration clinic, Shari helped battered women gain legal status.

As a new attorney, when Shari learned that San Antonio attorneys had to travel to Austin to be officially sworn-in, she suggested that the Bexar County Women’s Bar Foundation initiate a swearing-in ceremony in San Antonio. In 2014, Shari established the inaugural San Antonio Swearing-In Ceremony, which drew over 200 attendees in support of the new attorneys who were officially sworn in by Chief Justice Cathy Stone of the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals.

Shari participates regularly on speaking panels. Most recently, she served as a panelist in Justice Rebeca C. Martinez’s Color of Justice Program, a program that educates, encourages and motivates young women from local high schools to consider a career in the law and judiciary. Shari is proficient in Mandarin, conversant in Taiwanese, and was named a Rising Star in 2014 and Best S.A. Lawyer in Business and Corporate Law 2015 by S.A. Scene magazine.


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Shari Y. Mao
Partner, San Antonio

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