Thursday, October 15, 2009

‘The Best Lawyers In America’ Honors 40 Gardere Attorneys

DALLAS/HOUSTON/AUSTIN – Forty lawyers from the Dallas, Houston and Austin offices of Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP have been honored among 2010’s “Best Lawyers in America.”

Published by Woodward/White Inc., “The Best Lawyers in America” is widely regarded as one of the most respected surveys of U.S. lawyers. Attorneys are selected following a rigorous process in which thousands of the country’s top lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. More than 2 million detailed evaluations are reviewed in compiling the selections.

This year’s honorees from the firm’s Dallas office: Val J. Albright, Tax Law; Mark W. Bayer, Antitrust Law; Cynthia J. Bishop, Environmental Law; Michael J. Donohue, Tax Law; Curtis L. Frisbie Jr., Antitrust Law and Commercial Litigation; Jeffrey M. Gaba, Environmental Law; Kenneth R. Glaser, Intellectual Property Law; Lawrence E. Glasgow, Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Lawrence B. Goldstein, Corporate Law; Douglas A. Harrison, Family Law; Joe B. Harrison, Commercial Litigation and Personal Injury Litigation; Jack W. Hawkins, Trusts and Estates; Cym H. Lowell, Tax Law; Stephen A. McCartin, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law; Keith V. Novick, Trusts and Estates; Holland N. O'Neil, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law; Alan J. Perkins, Corporate Law; Frances E. Phillips, Environmental Law; Richard M. Roberson, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law; Deirdre B. Ruckman, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law; Robert Sarfatis, Corporate Law; Larry L. Schoenbrun, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, and Securities Law; Richard A. Tulli, Corporate Law; and Peter Vogel, Communications Law and Information Technology Law.

From the Houston office: Michael A. Abbott, Employee Benefits Law; Geoffrey H. Bracken, Oil & Gas Law; Michael P. Cash, Mass Tort Litigation; Allen B. Craig III, Corporate Law and Tax Law; Barbara Spudis De Marigny, Tax Law; Richard O. Faulk, Environmental Law; Thomas A. Hagemann, Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White-Collar; Elizabeth Howard, Structured Finance Law; Mark R. Martin, Tax Law; William E. Matthews, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, and Legal Malpractice Law; John P. Melko, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law; John R. Pearson, Maritime Law; Lawrence J. Pirtle, Trusts and Estates; Frank M. Putman, Corporate Law; and N.L. Stevens III, Corporate Law.

From the Austin office: Mark Vane, Government Relations Law.

Three Gardere attorneys, Jack Hawkins, Cym Lowell and Larry Schoenbrun, have been included in the Best Lawyers listing for 20 years or longer. William Matthews, Fran Phillips, Lawrence Pirtle and Frank Putman have each been recognized for at least 10 years. Four others – Elizabeth Howard, Michael Cash, Jeffrey Gaba, and Michael Donohue – were first-time honorees.

Additionally, with three attorneys from the firm’s Environmental group receiving individual honors, the firm was the top ranked Environmental Law practice in Dallas.

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, an AmLaw 200 firm celebrating 100 years in 2009 and one of the Southwest’s largest full-service law firms, has offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston and Mexico City. Gardere provides legal services to private and public companies and individuals in areas of energy, hospitality, litigation, corporate, tax, environmental, labor and employment, intellectual property and financial services.


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