Christopher Phipps
Senior Attorney at The Lanier Law Firm, PLLC
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Phipps is a senior attorney based in Warrenton, Virginia, with 11+ years’ experience navigating complex bankruptcy and creditor representation matters for over 2,000 clients nationwide. He combines courtroom-tested litigation and negotiation skills—having revised reorganization plans in multi-billion dollar Chapter 11 cases—with hands-on technical fluency in SQL and database management to streamline case workflows and discovery. Christopher’s public-sector experience at the EPA and early patentability work at MSU Technologies give him a strong regulatory and IP foundation that informs his enforcement and compliance strategies. He also contributes to open-source software, enhancing video-encoding features and real-time notifications in the motionEye project, reflecting an uncommon blend of legal depth and practical coding ability. Fluent in managing subpoenas, discovery, and legislative monitoring, he routinely represents secured and judgment creditors and provides pro bono family-court advocacy. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates technical details into actionable legal strategy.
11 years of coding experience
Juris Doctorate, Juris Doctorate at Michigan State University College of Law
Github Skills (7)
camera10
ffmpeg10
python10
html9
raspberry-pi8
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
motioneye-project/motioneye
Apr 2020 - May 2020
A web frontend for the motion daemon.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Full-stack Developer
Back-end & Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of motionEye by adding support for hardware encoding options like NVENC, NVMPI, and QSV for video recording. Their work involved modifying the backend logic in `motionctl.py`, `handlers.py` and the UI elements in `main.html` to expose these new encoding capabilities. The user also integrated Telegram notifications, creating a system that sends motion detection alerts with images.
raspberry-pipythonmotion-detectioncameradaemon
HawtDogFlvrWtr/auto-mated
Apr 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:122 commits, 115 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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