Ms. Norvell received an undergraduate degree in Political Science and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma where she received many academic honors including Order of Barrister, National Trial Team, Student Bar Association Award, National Trial Advocacy Award and Dean's Honor Roll. In 1986 She was admitted to the New Mexico bar as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and The United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. She was admitted to the Texas bar in 1998, and subsequently to United States District Courts for the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas.
Ms. Norvell has extensive experience in litigation which has included general casualty defense for various insurance carriers throughout the State of New Mexico, including catastrophic injury, product liability, wrongful death, premises liability, insurance coverage disputes, auto liability, and property damage. Most recently, Ms. Norvell focuses her practice on litigation and dispute resolution concerning commercial and consumer products.
Ms. Norvell has also worked as in-house counsel for companies in the high-tech industry and for large academic institutions with considerable patent and intellectual capital portfolios. In her role as Secretary and General Counsel of enherent Corp., a publicly traded information technology consulting services and solutions firm, she worked closely with the executive team and the Board of Directors on many business issues including corporate governance, SEC regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley and managed all outside counsel on such matters including the merger of enherent with a non-public company. She was also heavily involved in supporting Human Relations with termination issues, recruiting, training, drafting and negotiating employee agreements and EEO-compliance for US and non-US employees as well as managing outside litigation counsel in employment related litigation matters.
Her in-house experience began at a Canadian public company that provides network-based wireless location technology where she served as in-house counsel. The position involved negotiating tower site leases for placement of cellocate beacons that are a family of wireless location products to enable location-based services.
Ms. Norvell has served as the Intellectual Property Portfolio Manager at Iowa State University Research Foundation. Iowa State's patent portfolio includes over 600 active licenses that generate more than $7M annually. At the Foundation, she was responsible for evaluating legal and technological components of patent applications, as well as managing the legal teams including in-house and external attorneys and staff that managed the portfolio. She also assisted with and reviewed licensing agreements for a variety of patented products and processes.
She has also taught business law as a instructor at the University of Oklahoma and civil and criminal law as a paralegal instructor at Albuquerque Career Institute.
Felicia A. Norvell, born Clovis, New Mexico; admitted to bar, 1986, New Mexico; 1987, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1998, Texas.
Education:University of Oklahoma (B.A., 1982); University of Oklahoma, College of Law (J.D., 1986).
Member: State Bar of Texas, State Bar of New Mexico, Dallas Bar Association.
