Sydney Young

Sydney has a transactional practice consisting of Contracts, Real Estate, and Estate Planning, as well as Appellate Law. She graduated in the top ten percent of her law school class as Order of the Coif. After graduation, Sydney served as briefing attorney for the 2nd District of Texas Court of Appeals, in Fort Worth, Texas. She then worked for Gardere & Wynne, L.L.P. in downtown Dallas, Texas, before returning with Gary to Paris. While she was a solo-practitioner in Paris, she also served as attorney for the clients of Family Haven Crisis and Resource Center, Inc. Since March of 2001, Sydney has enjoyed being in the same office as Young Title Company because it is complimentary to her real estate practice.

• Wayland Baptist University, BA 1989, cum laude
• Texas Tech University School of Law, JD 1992, cum laude
• University of Minnesota Law School’s International Law Summer Program, Lyon, France --1990
• State Bar of Texas -- 1992
• United State District Court,
  Northern District of Texas -- 1992
• United States District Court,
  Eastern District of Texas -- 1995
• United States Court of Appeals,
  Fifth Circuit – 1995
• United States Supreme Court -- 1999

• Lamar County Bar Association, 1994-present
• 5^th Circuit Bar Association, 1995-present
• Even Start Board
• First United Methodist Church
• Junior Achievement
• Lamar County Task Force on Family Violence
• Leadership Lamar County, Class of 1999-2000, Class President
• McCuistion Regional Medical Center, Member Presbytarian HealthCare System, Community Health Committee
• Transitions Board, Paris Junior College
• United Way, Board Member