Mary Louise Serafine

The Law Office of Mary Louise Serafine wishes to draw to the attention of interested attorneys and others the First Amendment opinion issued last week by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Serafine v. Branaman. We think it is an important freedom of speech opinion. Continue reading “Fifth Circuit issues First Amendment decision”

The Center for Individual Rights in Washington, D.C., provides a summary of the opinion on its website, available here: https://www.cir-usa.org/2016/01/fifth-circuit-tosses-texas-psychology-licensing-law/
The Fifth Circuit Opinion, No. 14-51151, is available here in its entirety.

Please contact Joe Gimenez at 713.478.8034 or info@psychologyspeech.mlserafine.com with questions.

Mary Louise Serafine, Attorney at Law
Austin, Texas
Licensed in Texas, California, New York, and the District of Columbia

Mary Lou’s Bio

Serafine earned her B.A. degree at Rutgers’ University and Ph.D. at the University of Florida. She then completed post-doctoral training in psychology at Yale University. She did research in cognitive and developmental psychology, published numerous scientific articles in those fields, and served on the psychology faculties of Yale College and Vassar College. She later published Music as Cognition (Columbia University Press). Serafine graduated from law school at Yale in 1991, where she served as Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal and held the Cullen Prize for writing the “best first-year paper” on jury perception of witness truth-telling and lying. After law school Serafine practiced in antitrust, investment banking, and mass torts litigation at an AmLaw 100 firm in Los Angeles. She is a licensed attorney in California, New York, Texas, and the District of Columbia. She is a member of the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court and various federal courts. Her biography is published in Who’s Who in America.

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