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 Mr. Albert graduated from Baylor University in 2000 with both his Juris Doctor and M.B.A. degrees. While in law school, Mr. Albert worked as a judicial extern for the Honorable Jane J. Boyle, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas. He is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States; the Texas Supreme Court; the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; the United States District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas and all Courts of the State of Texas. Mr. Albert has been a certified Civil mediator since 1998 and served for years as an outside mediator for the E.E.O.C. He is regularly appointed to serve as a mediator and Ad Litem by various courts in Dallas County.   

 Deborah “Deb” Wakefield was admitted to the Texas bar in 1990 and the Georgia Bar in 2004. She received two undergraduate degrees from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, a B.A. in English (1978) and a B.S. in Business Management (1981). Deborah received her J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, California in 1990 where she graduated in the top 15% of her class.  

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Deborah has worked as Briefing Attorney to United States Magistrate Judge Alex H. McGlinchey in the Northern District of Texas Fort Worth Division where she was sworn in by United States District Judge Eldon Mahon.  Later she served as Senior Assistant City Attorney for the City of Atlanta's Labor and Employment Litigation Section and as Labor and Employment Staff Attorney. Since then, Deborah has also managed her private practice. She has been at The Law Offices of Christopher M. Albert since November 2019.