Julie Goodrich Harrison

JULIE is a partner with Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP in Houston, where her practice is focused on financial restructuring and insolvency matters, including complex commercial bankruptcy and litigation cases. She has represented a wide range of clients, including debtors, creditors’ committees, trustees, landlords, and secured and unsecured creditors. She has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial litigation matters in federal courts, primarily in Texas, and she specializes in restructuring, chapter 11 debtor and trustee representation, municipal restructuring and bankruptcy, energy, financial institutions, funds and creditor representation, official creditors’ committee representation and crossborder insolvency representation in several industries, including energy, infrastructure and resources.

Julie has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America as one of its “Ones to Watch” for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law since 2021, and as one of its “Women in the Law Ones to Watch” for 2021 and 2022. She also was listed as a Texas Super Lawyers “Rising Star” for Bankruptcy: Business from 2022-23, and as a Legal 500 US key lawyer in finance-restructuring (including bankruptcy)-corporate in 2022. She is a member of the Houston Young Lawyers Association, chaired the Houston Network of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) from 2018-19 and sat on its board from 2018-24, was a National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ) NextGen Program participant in 2021 and committee member from 2022-24, and is a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. In addition, she has spoken at the Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Conference, ABI’s VALCON conference, the State Bar of Texas Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference and a Turnaround Management Association event.

Julie’s entrance into bankruptcy practice occurred after she clerked for a district judge, where she had managed a wide-ranging docket of civil and criminal cases but had never dealt with any bankruptcy issues. When she joined the firm, her federal court experience caught the eye of a senior partner in the restructuring group who was a former bankruptcy judge. He took her under his wing, and within a few months, she was hooked on the fast-paced world of bankruptcy court. She also maintains a robust pro bono practice, which has included representing a death row inmate convicted of capital murder in challenging his death penalty sentence due to his intellectual disability, representing an inmate in Eighth Amendment Civil Rights litigation against two prison guards in federal district court, and partnering with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in representing a group of students and a student organization at a historically Black university in Voting Rights Act litigation in federal district court. In recognition of her pro bono work, she received her firm’s Pro Bono All Star award and Jaworski Award for Pro Bono Excellence. She is likewise dedicated to mentorship and sits on the firm’s hiring committee, serving as a mentor to summer associates and junior associates at the firm. She also mentors law students at the University of Houston Law Center.