Susan Tran Adams

SUSAN is a founding partner of Tran Singh LLP, a boutique restructuring law firm in Houston that specializes in assisting financially distressed individuals and small business owners through in- and out-of-court restructurings. She represents individuals in chapter 7, 13 and 11 bankruptcies, with a particular focus on representing individuals in subchapter V bankruptcies. She also has been engaged as conflicts counsel in several complex matters in the Southern District of Texas. Since 2018, she has been certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in both business and consumer bankruptcy. Prior to forming Tran Singh LLP, she was a summer associate with Strasburger and Price, LLP in Dallas. During her third year of law school, she competed in the annual ABI/St. John’s University School of Law Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition. Participating in this competition inspired her to co-found her firm with a fellow competitor and law school classmate. She and her partner managed to save a significant portion of the earnings from their clerkships to help fund the start-up costs of the new law firm.

Susan has been honored in Texas Super Lawyers and has been named a “Rising Star” in Texas Monthly every year since 2019 in the category of consumer bankruptcy. In 2024, she was named one of Texas Monthly’s Top 50 Up-and-Coming Women Attorneys and Top 100 Up-and-Coming Attorneys. She also has been named as a Houston Top Attorney by Houstonia in the category of bankruptcy and was featured in The Best Lawyers in America as one of its “Ones to Watch” from 2021-23 in the category of Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/ Insolvency. Since 2018, she has been a member of the executive committee of the Houston Association of Young Bankruptcy Lawyers (HAYBL) and Moller-Foltz Inn of Court, and she has been elected chair of the Houston Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Section for 2025. In addition, since 2019 she has served on the Texas Board of Legal Specialization’s Selection Committee, which oversees applications for certification exams.

Susan is a second-generation American whose Chinese and Vietnamese parents settled in the U.S. following the Vietnam War. Because of the strong Buddhist ideologies instilled by her family, and after witnessing her family’s financial struggles from rebuilding their lives following the Vietnam War, she is a strong believer in providing services to those in need of assistance by giving back to the community through volunteer projects and providing pro bono legal services through the Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program and Lone Star Legal Aid. In 2023, her law firm received the Small Law Firm Pro Bono Award from Lone Star Legal Aid for providing more than $100,000 in debt-relief services to the Houston community.