LEGAL EXPERIENCE

Marcela Halmagean is the founder of Halmagean Law Firm PLLC (the “Firm”).

The Firm’s practice is focused on (1) business and commercial law and (2) family law and family law related matters. Ms. Halmagean handles business and commercial litigation, formation of companies, divorces whether contested or uncontested and whether handled through the traditional litigious way or through the newer process of resolution called “collaborative law”. Halmagean Law Firm also handles child custody issues, child support litigation, pre- and post-marital agreements, paternity lawsuits, and adoptions.

During her professional tenure, Ms. Halmagean worked for large corporations and law firms representing corporate and individual entities in a variety of legal matters such as white collar crime cases, breach of contract, and partnership disputes. Ms. Halmagean is a Certified Fraud Examiner (“CFE”).

In part due to her CFE credentials and in part due to her degree in law, from 1997 to 1999, Ms. Halmagean acted as Project Counsel in Zurich, Switzerland, for one of the Big Five accounting firms on what is today largely referred to as the “Holocaust Project”. While working on the Holocaust Project, Ms. Halmagean acted as the legal liaison on banking and privacy laws issues while supervising the risk management and compliance functions for the project. During the law school years, Ms. Halmagean clerked in a prosecutorial function with Harris County District Attorney’s office in the Special Crimes Division assisting with the prosecution of white collar crime cases and also, as a law clerk for a Houston criminal defense law firm.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS / ASSOCIATIONS

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
The State Bar of Texas
Toastmasters International, 1986–1992, 1998-1999 (Zurich, CH)
Houston Bar Association
Jewish Federation of Greater Houston - Business & Professional Women’s Association