Reda M. Hicks joined Diamond McCarthy in September 2005. Prior to joining the firm she interned at the Office of the United States Trustee in Oakland, California. Reda has experience in a wide range complex litigation matters, including environmental tort actions, director and officer liability suits, accounting liability suits, and securities litigation.

Some of Reda's recent work includes:

• Representation of a Philippine Province in an environmental tort suit against a multinational mining company.
  
  
• Defense of a group of specialists sued by the Securities Exchange Commission for securities fraud.
  
  
• Representation of the court-appointed Chapter 11 trustee in the bankruptcy of a major New York law firm.
  
  
• Representation of a limited partner in a breach of partnership agreement action against its general partner and the partnership.
  
  
• Representation of a major Dutch bank in a suit involving officer and director liability and breach of fiduciary duty claims.
  
  
• Defense of a national travel group against a competitor alleging misappropriation of trade secrets and corporation opportunities.
  
  

Reda received her JD from the University of California Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, where she received a Certification of Specialization in Environmental Law. While attending Boalt, Reda served as Publishing Editor of the Ecology Law Quarterly, during which time she published pieces on environmental and administrative topics. She also served as Competitive Teams Coordinator for the Boalt Hall Moot Court Board, and was a fellow in the Environmental Law Institute's Associates Program. Reda was an assistant instructor in various courses offered at Boalt, including Legal Research & Writing, Written & Oral Advocacy, and the Environmental Law Writing Seminar, and was a finalist in the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition.

Reda received her B.A. degrees in History and Humanities from the University of Texas at Austin, where she graduated with honors. She was a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society and the University of Texas Humanities Honor Society.

Reda is licensed to practice law in Texas and is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the College of the State Bar of Texas. She is admitted to practice before the Southern District of Texas. Reda is also a certified LEEDS Green Associate.

Reda is a member of the Texas Young Lawyers Association, the Houston Young Lawyers Association, the Houston Bar Association, and the American Bar Association, and the Environmental Law Research Institute. She is also a graduate of the 2007-2008 class of the HYLA Leadership Academy. Reda is also a member of and serves on the Steering Committee for the Houston Downtown Alliance-Emerging Leaders.

Reda has written and spoke on a number of topics, including:

• Co-Speaker: Occupational Exposure to Asbestos: A Medical and Legal Overview, presented at the Philippine College of Chest Physicians Annual International Conference on Health, Air Quality and the Environment, August 8, 2009 (with Dr. Dina V. Diaz, head of Pulmonary Medicine, Lung Center of the Philippines).
  
  
• Co-Author: In Ratings We Trust? The Role Played By Rating Agencies in the Subprime Debacle, American Bar Association Section of Litigation, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Litigation Newsletter, March 2008 (with Andrea Levin Kim).
  
  
• Speaker: International Environmental Litigation: Interfacing with Global Communities, presented to the Alliance for Bases Clean-up, Olongapo City, Pampanga, Philippines, April 21, 2007.
  
  
• Speaker: Grass Roots Activism: What a Community Can Do in the Wake of Disaster, presented to the National Organization of Mining NGO's, Manila, Philippines, April 12, 2007.
  
  
• Co-Author: Trends and Settlement Alternatives in International Parallel Litigation, presented at the Center for International Legal Studies Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado February 12, 2007 (presented by Allan Diamond).
  
  
• Author: Riverkeeper, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency: Finally a Solution that the Courts Can Live With…Almost, 32 ECOLOGY L.Q. 689 (2005).
  
  
• Author: Healthy Forest Restoration Act-Will it Really Protect Homes and Communities?, 31 ECOLOGY L.Q. 639 (2004).
  
  
• Author: Instructing the EPA How to Regulate Vehicle Emissions, 30 ECOLOGY L.Q. 791 (2003).