Molly W. Bartholow: 

Education:

University of Texas at Austin , B.A 1968

University of Texas at Austin, J.D. 1971

Bar Admissions:

Admitted to the State Bar of Texas , United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas , United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Texas , United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit , United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas , United States Supreme Court.

Honors:

Staff Member University of Texas Law Review, 1969-1970

Speaker at various seminars on the local and national level regarding various bankruptcy topics.

Acknowledged by the Court and her peers as “zealous advocate for her client.”

Noted in 2004 as “tenacious” and “one of the better debtor (consumer) bankruptcy lawyers in the Northern District [of Texas ]” by one of the Judges at the conclusion of a case she litigated successfully for her client.

Professional Experience:

In her more than 30 years as a lawyer, Molly Bartholow has litigated hundreds of bankruptcy cases and administered thousands of cases as Trustee. Molly has served as counsel for creditors as well as debtors, and she has handled matters at every level of the United States Supreme Court (see, e.g., In re Nobleman, 508 U.S. 324(1993)). Molly has represented clients in multi-million dollar national and multinational corporate reorganizations, and she has also worked on a pro bono (volunteer) basis for individual debtors in personal ‘consumer’ bankruptcies.

Molly’s Legal Career began in 1971, when she was one of the only two female law school graduates hired by a major law firm in Dallas (Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld). Molly initially worked in the ‘general litigation’ at Akin Gump, but soon began working exclusively in the area of bankruptcy law.

Since leaving Akin Gump to become a partner with a boutique law firm in Dallas, Molly has started and expanded her own private bankruptcy practice (Law Office of Molly W. Bartholow/ Bartholow & Milbank), served as a Trustee for cases under Chapter 7, 11, and 13, and built a “bankruptcy tracking” business (Access Bankruptcy Tracking) designed to assist creditors in managing bankruptcy claims.

Volunteer & Community Involvement

Our Friends’ Place—A home for troubled and/or abused girls. Molly is a Founding Member of Our Friends’ Place and currently serves as a member of the Our Friends’ Place Advisory Committee.

Honduras Mission (Sponsored by the Church of the Incarnation in association with the Episcopal Diocese of Honduras) – A program helping improvised communities in Honduras to become economically and environmentally able to meet their populations’ basic human needs by providing medical supplies and treatment, digging wells for a clean water supply, supplying schools, teaching agricultural methods, etc. Molly and Toby both have donated their time, skills and money in support of the Honduras Mission. In addition to traveling to Honduras as a volunteer worker for the Mission , Molly has helped establish a nonprofit sewing co-op for women in Honduras , which markets the co-op members’ decorative hand-made items in the United States .

Pro Bono Legal Assistance – Whether for the Dallas Bar Association, Jane’s Due Process, Women’s Clinic, or through her own firm, Molly has provided legal services to the poor and disadvantaged throughout her career.