Holly Elizabeth Robbins, daughter of Catherine and Winston Robbins of Bogalusa, graduated with honors May 22, when she received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, Texas. She attended Bogalusa High School before graduating from the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts residential high school in 2003.

During her first year of law school, Robbins won the Best Brief Award among first-year students. She was later selected to serve as brief writer for U.T. Law’s American Bar Association Moot Court team, which won a regional championship in Miami and went on to compete nationally in Chicago in 2009. Robbins also competed in U.T. Law’s Gibbs & Bruns Moot Court Competition in 2009.

Based on her academic achievement and writing ability, Robbins was selected, after her first year, for membership on the Texas Law Review, a publication devoted to scholarly writing in the legal field that maintains a student editorial board. She was an associate editor on the Texas Law Review and also served as a member of the Texas Rules of Form Committee. Her student research note, titled “Soul Searching and Profit Seeking: Reconciling the Competing Goals of Islamic Finance,” was selected for publication in the Texas Law Review’s April 2010 issue.

Advertisement

Throughout law school, Robbins interned and worked as a summer associate in a number of law firms and as a research assistant for professors at U.T. Law. She will sit for the July 2010 Texas Bar Examination and will begin work for the international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski in January 2011. She has accepted an offer of employment in the firm’s Houston office in the Energy and Real Property practice group.