Clark is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and is a member of numerous professional, legal, and civic associations including the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the East Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the American Board of Trial Advocates, the American Association of Justice, Dallas Trial Lawyers, Dallas Bar Association, Smith County Bar Association, and Cherokee County Bar Association. He is licensed to argue before the Supreme Court, all courts in Texas, and the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern Federal Districts of Texas, as well as the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Area of Practice: Corporate Transaction and Commercial Litigation Colby has rejoined Jones Waldo as a litigator and business attorney who draws on his personal experience as an executive and business owner to advise clients on a variety of legal strategies. Colby customizes his legal counsel to challenges for both small and large clients, start-up or seasoned, and can work with creative billing arrangement for limited legal budgets. As a solutions based practitioner, Colby partners with clients to meet their unique business or litigation needs, including corporate formation to restructuring, venture to structured financing, property and asset creation to protection, and all manner of software and technology matters and disputes.

Jacqueline Clark is licensed in both Washington State and the province of Ontario in Canada, where she started practicing in 1996. After moving to the US, she took time to raise her three children, and when her own marriage ended, she returned to law as a paralegal in Washington in 2011. While working full-time in a busy family law firm, she went back to school to obtain an LLM for Foreign Attorneys from Seattle University in 2020. She became a member of the Washington State Bar in 2021. In Canada, Jacqueline practiced family law for over 7 years, where she had the privilege of appearing in front of the BC Court of Appeals on a Hague Convention child abduction case. She was a part of a team that took a child custody matter up to the Supreme Court of Canada. She has also written and presented papers on various aspects of family law, including finding hidden assets. As a trained life coach and attorney, Jacqueline stands out amongst the lawyer community. Jacqueline understands most parents want to minimize the impact of their separation on their children and to resolve their disputes privately and cost-effectively. Her training as a life coach assists her in understanding the family dynamics, keeping the resolution process as amicable as possible, and assisting her clients through both the legal and emotional hurdles of a family law matter. When away from her desk, Jacqueline is “throwing rocks” at the local curling club, spending time with her children and two Havanese dogs, skiing, reading, and exploring restaurants around town.

Tara Clary is a partner at Baird Mandalas Brockstedt & Federico with over 25 years of litigation experience handling all facets of the most complex medical malpractice matters, from investigation through discovery and trial. Tara began her career defending physicians and health care providers against medical negligence claims. Tara then decided to utilize the comprehensive knowledge she developed to advocate for victims of malpractice. She synthesizes the technical, legal, factual and human aspects of all her cases to deliver outstanding results for clients. She finds the truth in the details and is known for an exacting, thorough approach to her work. Tara has extensive trial experience and was recently recognized for obtaining two of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in the country. Tara graduated cum laude from Washington and Lee University with a degree in Politics and French. She is also a cum laude graduate of the University of Baltimore School of Law. She has been a member of the Maryland Bar for over 25 years.