Heather McFarlane

Heather (Kubiak) McFarlane - Transforming Conflict Into Resolution

Heather devotes her practice to mediating civil disputes.  Her world view that every problem has a solution.  

For over 20 years, Heather represented businesses in a variety of complex commercial litigation, including insurance coverage, directors and officers disputes, and contract disputes. Heather has first-chaired 15 jury trials, two bench trials, and an AAA arbitration to verdict.  In 2010, she became a mediator.  She now focuses her practice on mediating all types of civil cases, including intellectual property, insurance coverage, personal injury, labor & employment, and contract disputes.  Since 2021, she has been mediating family disputes.

Heather was selected and trained at Harvard Law School's "Advanced Mediation Workshop:  Mediating Complex Disputes."  She earned her J.D., with honors, from the University of Texas School of Law in 1998, where she worked on the Review of Litigation and published an article in the Texas Journal of Women and the Law. She also performed for the law school's theatre troupe, Assault & Flattery. In 1994, she earned her A.B. in English from the College of William & Mary.

Heather frequently speaks and writes on the topics of mediation, ethics, and intellectual property.  She has served on the leadership of the ADR section of the Houston Bar Association and President of the Houston Chapter of the Association of Attorney Mediators.