WARD LAW - Key Persons
Andrea "Andie" Zepeda has spent her career litigating cases involving products liability, personal injury, labor & employment, construction litigation, insurance coverage, professional liability, class actions, collective actions, and complex multi-party matters. Prior to law school, she earned her B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2002 and worked as a process engineer. She earned her J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center in 2012 and became a member of the Order of Barristers. Ms. Zepeda has been licensed in Texas since 2012, she and is admitted to practice in the Southern District of Texas.
Ms. Zepeda grew up in Lockhart, Texas. She now lives in Houston, Texas where she is an active member of the Mexican American Bar Association, the Hispanic Bar Association, and the Greater Heights Chamber of Commerce. She enjoys spending time with her family, biking, swimming, and mentoring young women in STEM and the legal field.
Camden Chancellor was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 2012. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court - Western, Northern, and Eastern Districts of Texas. Mr. Chancellor has worked in Federal Multi-District Litigation in several U.S. states, and in internal audits of major publicly traded corporations conducted through agreement with U.S. agencies. Mr. Chancellor attended the University of Texas at Austin on a full scholarship where he earned a B.A. in Government in 2009. Mr. Chancellor attended Boston University for the completion of his J.D., with international certification, in 2012 and his M.A. in International Relations in 2012. In 2013, Mr. Chancellor returned to the University of Texas for post-doctorate studies in energy & resource law. In 2020, Mr. Chancellor earned his Prince2 Project Management certification after auditing for several Fortune companies. He also has formal training in networks, programming language, and electronic privacy and electronic discovery.
Mr. Chancellor has experience operating his independent practice as well as working for national firms. His major trial and bench litigation experiences include prosecuting and defending institutional lawsuits in proprietary information and corporate governance, wrongful death and catastrophic accidents, industrial accident and premises liability, construction defect, and commercial breach of contract.
Mr. Chancellor also possesses a firm understanding of transactional and administrative operations in the profit and non-profit (charitable or governmental) sectors. Mr. Chancellor's board services include oil & gas development, mid-stream and major construction, economic incentive, real property development, and shareholder relations. He has practiced in greater than twenty (20) Texas counties, including the Courts of Appeals in Texas, binding arbitration, class actions, and for the Texas Department of Insurance - Division of Workers' Compensation.
While attending law school, Mr. Chancellor was a founding member of Boston University's first International Moot Arbitration team competing in London. Mr. Chancellor also attended law school in the United Kingdom for the areas of parliamentary law and European Union regulation. In 2016 Mr. Chancellor served as the President of the Ector County Young Lawyers Association and hosted the formal judicial dinner for all judges of West Texas.
Connell's practice focuses on commercial litigation and legal counseling for businesses. Throughout his career, Connell has represented clients from a variety of industries and of various sizes, including those from the energy, healthcare, real estate, and manufacturing sectors.
Connell's litigation experience includes appearing and arguing motions throughout Texas federal and state courts, taking and defending fact and expert witness depositions, conducting jury research and testing, drafting substantive pleadings and discovery, managing large scale and MDL related discovery projects and responding to third-party subpoenas. As a volunteer in the City of Houston's Volunteer Prosecutor Program, Connell first chaired over ten jury trials to verdict. Connell also routinely counsels businesses on contract matters, business formation issues, sales agreements, and other transactions. In his pro bono practice, Connell has represented veterans in appeals of veteran's benefits eligibility determinations.
Connell studied at the University Texas School of Law where he was the submissions editor for The Review of Litigation. During law school, Connell worked as judicial intern to the Honorable George C. Hanks of the Southern District of Texas and was a law clerk in the Antitrust Division for the Attorney General of Texas. Before law school, Connell graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in finance and participated as a member of the football team for four years.