Ezra Hood

From the Law Office of Alison Grinter in Dallas, Texas

Ezra Hood is a D/FW-raised 3L at the George Mason University School of Law, in Arlington, Virginia.

Contents 1 Family 2 Law School 3 Future Plans 4 Legal Work Experience 5 Music School 6 Community and Mission Service 7 Contact and References

Family

Ezra is the third of five children, and has been married for over three years. 

Law School

Ezra is a candidate for a Juris Doctor at George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia, and expects to graduate in May 2009.

At Mason, Ezra is an articles editor for the '08-'09 issues of the GMU Civil Rights Law Journal; he was the GMU chapter vice president of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, 2007-08, and is a member of the GMU chapter of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. 

The Civil Rights Law Journal will publish Ezra's 2L comment Interpreting in the Public Interest: How Macey’s Canon Can Restore Economic Liberty in 2009.

Future Plans

Ezra will practice law in the D/FW metroplex, likely in taxes, estates, and property issues. He and Shannon intend to return permanently to north Texas at the end of 2008. Ezra will study as a visiting student either at SMU or TWU for his last law school semester.

Legal Work Experience

Lynne Candler, Esq., Dallas, Texas
Intern, Summer 2008
Assisted Candler part-time in her probate, estates, and tax practice.

Dallas County Public Defender, Dallas, Texas
Intern, Summer 2008
Assisted Molly Kicklighter part-time in her indigent criminal defense cases and practice.

Alison Grinter, Esq., Dallas, Texas
Intern, Summer 2008
Assisted Alison Grinter part-time in her criminal defense practice, including creating scores of the pages in this wiki.

Bean, Kinney, Korman, PC, Arlington, Virginia
Law Clerk, September—December 2007
Researched for a digest of pertinent caselaw in software licensing and IP issues.

Institute for Justice, Arlington, Virginia
Law Clerk, May—August 2007
Researched and supported the Institute’s economic liberty, school choice, campaign-finance, eminent domain, and free speech cases; attended the Institute’s law student conference.

Olivier Denier Long, EzJustice, PLC, McLean, Virginia
Law Clerk, March 2006—January 2007 (full and part-time)
Researched statute and case law in areas of estate planning, augmented estates, traffic and family law; drafted court documents; client correspondence; managed law office during paralegal’s maternity leave.
 

Music School

Ezra studied music composition with Dr. Blaise Ferrandino at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, Texas, graduating magna cum laude in May 2005.  Ezra maintains membership in the Clark Society. 

While studying at TCU, he wrote paid commentaries for the university newspaper, organized several successful student composers' concerts, and improvised piano accompaniments for modern dance and ballet classes.  While not studying at TCU, Ezra met and married Shannon Low, and also discovered college football.  Both he and Shannon remains loyal Horned Frog fans. 

Ezra's composed musical highlights include one act of an opera, a one-movement piano concerto, suites for percussion and for saxophones, several choral and piano pieces, and a four-hand monstrosity for two well-humored pianists.

Community and Mission Service

Ezra recently concluded a one-year volunteer term co-teaching a daily (before-school) high-school Old Testament class for about twenty students in Annandale, Virginia for the LDS-CES seminary program.

Prior to that, Ezra was an assistant scoutmaster leader for the Annandale Varsity Team #1146.

From 2003 to 2005, he led an LDS congregation's men's organization in Fort Worth, including organizing a vigorous member outreach program, Sunday and weekday meetings, and correlating the group's activities with the congregation leadership and other organizations.

Ezra served a customary two-year volunteer mission for the LDS church in Latvia, Belarus, and Moscow, from March 1999 to March 2001.  Ezra learned and spoke Russian for this service, which included prosletyzing, English classes, alcohol and addiction classes, and hefting humanitarian shipments of food.  He led an eight-member missionary team from October 2000 to March 2001.  Ezra is conversationally capable in Russian today.

Contact and References

Ezra is reliably reached by phone at (972) 679-8289, or by email at ehood@gmu.edu.

ALISON GRINTER, ESQ. –criminal defense attorney
Grinter, Goode, PLLC, Dallas, Texas.
alison@grinterlaw.com, (214) 934-1654.

LYNNE CANDLER, ESQ.—probate, estate, and tax attorney
Lynne M. Candler, Dallas, Texas.
lmcandler@aol.com, (214) 891-6258

MOLLY KICKLIGHTER, ESQ.—assistant public defender
Dallas County Public Defender’s Office, Dallas, Texas.
mkicklighter@dallascounty.org, (214) 761-1396.

DAVE TEMELES, ESQ.—IP attorney, firm clerkship supervisor
Bean, Kinney, Korman, PC, Arlington, Virginia.
dtemeles@beankinney.com, (703) 525-4000.

JEFF ROWES, ESQ.—staff attorney, clerk supervisor,
Institute for Justice, Arlington, Virginia.
jrowes@ij.org, (703) 682-9320.

DAVE GALLACHER, ESQ.—D.C. attorney, scoutmaster with Ezra in Team #1146.

dsgallacher@yahoo.com, (703) 914-4697.