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Chante Brantley

Chante Brantley

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Chante Brantley has been recognized as the August 2023 Volunteer Attorney of the Month at the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program. Brantley is a clinical professor at the SMU Dedman School of Law and is the Director of the VanSickle Family Law Clinic.

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Mitch Little

Mitch Little

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Mitch Little has been included in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America for his work in for Arbitration and Litigation–Real Estate. Little is a partner at Scheef & Stone, LLP in Frisco, Texas, where he counsels individuals and business organizations in state and federal courts.

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Parker Folse

Parker Folse

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Parker Folse has been named “Lawyer of the Year” in Seattle for Antitrust Litigation. Folse is a partner with Susman Godfrey, LLP in the firm’s Seattle office and represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of complex commercial litigation matters.

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Neal S Manne

Neal Manne

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Neal Manne has been named “Lawyer of the Year” in Litigation-Antitrust in Houston by The Best Lawyers in America. A double Longhorn, Manne is a partner and trial lawyer at Susman Godfrey, LLP. He has received this honor for Houston in a major practice area on five other occasions.

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Alden Harris

Alden Harris

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Alden Harris has been included in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America for his work in Patent litigation. Harris is partner at Heim, Payne & Chorush, LLP, where his litigation work has spanned a variety of fields including electrical and computer engineering, telecommunications, and biochemistry.

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Brad Caldwell

Brad Caldwell

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Brad Caldwell has been included in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America for his work in Intellectual Property and Patent trials. Caldwell is principal at Caldwell Cassady & Curry, where he focuses on patent infringement and complex commercial litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants in trial.

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Michael McBride

Michael McBride

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Michael McBride has been included in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America for his work in Intellectual Property law. McBride is a partner at Alavi Anaipakos in Houston, where he focuses primarily on high-stakes, complex patent litigation and patent prosecution matters.

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Scott Clark

Scott Clark

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Scott Clark has been included in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America for his work in Intellectual Property law. Clark is a partner at Alavi & Anaipakos in Houston and was recognized in the 2023 edition of the IAM Patent 1000.

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Chris Hamilton

Chris Hamilton

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Chris Hamilton has been included in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America for his work in personal injury and product liability trials, as well as his expertise in medical malpractice lawsuits. Hamilton is owner and partner at Hamilton Wingo in Dallas and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

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Jack O'Neill

Jack O’Neill

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Jack O’Neill has been recognized in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America for Oil and Gas and Commercial Litigation, and also received honors for his appellate practice. Co-founder of Pierce O’Neill, LLP, he is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and International Association of Defense Counsel.

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Jesse Pierce

Jesse Pierce

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Jesse Pierce has been recognized in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America for his legal work in Natural Resources, Oil and Gas, and Commercial Litigation. Co-founder of Pierce O’Neill, LLP, he is board certified in civil trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is a Commercial Arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and a Litigation Counsel of America Senior Fellow.

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Brian N. Hail

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Brian N. Hail has been recognized in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Commercial Litigation. Hail is a Director in the Dallas office of Kane Russell Coleman Logan P.C. and has nearly three decades of courtroom experience handling complex commercial litigation.

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Arthur M Nathan

Arthur M. Nathan

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Arthur M. Nathan has been recognized in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Tax Law. Nathan is a Director in the Houston office of Kane Russell Coleman Logan P.C., where he focuses on corporate and partnership transactions, mergers and acquisitions.

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Colin Watterson

Colin Watterson

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Colin Watterson has been selected for inclusion in the Benchmark Litigation 40 & Under listing. Watterson is a partner at Hicks Thomas and was previously recognized by “The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch” for his experience in commercial litigation.

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Jeff Civins

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At the 35th Annual Texas Environmental Superconference, Jeff Civins was honored by the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas with the creation of the Jeff Civins Volunteer of the Year Award, recognizing his long-time dedication to the section. Civins has chaired the conference since its inception, developed and co-edits the Thomson Reuters two-volume treatise on Texas environmental law, and has been an adjunct professor at the law school for more than 30 years.

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David J Beck

David J. Beck

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David J. Beck has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Litigators list. Beck is a trial lawyer and founding partner at Beck Redden LLP and is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

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Samantha Jarvis

Samantha Jarvis

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Samantha Jarvis has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Jarvis is a partner at Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, L.L.P. and focuses her practice on commercial disputes and white collar litigation.

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Jeb Golinkin

Jeb Golinkin

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Jeb Golinkin has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Golinkin is a trial associate at Jordan Lynch & Cancienne and focuses his practice on commercial litigation.

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Ryan M Goldstein

Ryan M. Goldstein

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Ryan M. Goldstein has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Goldstein is a partner at Reid Collins & Tsai and focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation.

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Neil Gehlawat

Neil Gehlawat

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Neil Gehlawat has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Gehlawat is an attorney at the Taylor & Ring law firm and focuses his practice on serious personal injury, wrongful death, civil rights, and sexual abuse.

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Jackie Furlow

Jackie Furlow

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Jackie Furlow has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Furlow is a partner at Beck Redden and focuses her practice on commercial, employment, and energy litigation.

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Ryan Ellis

Ryan Ellis

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Ryan Ellis has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Ellis is an attorney at the Lanier Law Firm and focuses his practice on commercial litigation.

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Amber K Dodds

Amber K. Dodds

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Amber K. Dodds has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Dodds is a partner at Bracewell LLP and focuses her practice on employment law.

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Keith Y. Cohan

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Keith Y. Cohan has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Cohan is a partner at Reid Collins & Tsai and focuses his practice on commercial financial litigation.

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Joshua J. Bruckerhoff

Joshua J. Bruckerhoff

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Joshua J. Bruckerhoff has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Bruckerhoff is a partner at Reid Collins & Tsai and focuses his practice on financial litigation.

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Mariah Berry

Mariah Berry

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Mariah Berry has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Berry is an associate at Muskat Devine and focuses her practice on Labor & Employment litigation.

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W. Jared Berg

W. Jared Berg

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W. Jared Berg has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Berg is an associate at Bracewell LLP’s Houston office and focuses his practice on Mergers & Acquisitions and the energy industry.

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Patrick K Johnson

Patrick K. Johnson

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Patrick K. Johnson has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Johnson is a partner at Bracewell LLP and focuses his practice on the energy industry.

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Michael Kelso

Michael Kelso

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Michael Kelso has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Kelso is a partner at Susman Godfrey LLP and focuses his practice on commercial litigation.

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Nishi Kothari

Nishi Kothari

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Nishi Kothari has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Kothari is a partner at Brasher Law Firm and focuses her practice on bad faith insurance claims and commercial personal injury matters.

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Kat Li

Kat Li

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Kat Li has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Li is an IP litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and focuses her trial practice on patent and technology litigation.

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Rocco Magni

Rocco Magni

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Rocco Magni has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Magni is a partner at Susman Godfrey LLP and focuses his trial practice on commercial litigation.

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Stephanie L Matherne

Stephanie L. Matherne

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Stephanie L. Matherne has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Matherne is a partner at Estes Thorne Ewing & Payne and focuses her practice on family law.

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Utsav Mathur

Utsav Mathur

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Utsav Mathur has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Mathur is a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright and focuses his practice on commodity trading, shipping, and offshore energy.

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Andrew W Monk

Andrew W. Monk

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Andrew W. Monk has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Monk is an associate at Bracewell LLP and focuses his practice on corporate and securities transactions.

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Denton Nichols

Denton Nichols

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Denton Nichols has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Nichols is a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright and focuses his practice on international arbitration and disputes.

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Nathaniel J. Palmer

Nathaniel J. Palmer

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Nathaniel J. Palmer has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Palmer is a partner at Reid Collins & Tsai and focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation.

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Mary Kate Raffetto

Mary Kate Raffetto

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Mary Kate Raffetto has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Raffetto is an associate at Beck Redden and focuses her practice on appellate and commercial litigation.

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Scott D. Saldaña

Scott Saldaña

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Scott D. Saldaña has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Saldaña is a partner at Reid Collins & Tsai and focuses his practice on plaintiff financial litigation.

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Rafe A. Schaefer

Rafe A. Schaefer

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Rafe A. Schaefer has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Schaefer is a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright and focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation matters.

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John L. Stavinoha III

John L. Stavinoha III

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John L. Stavinoha III has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Stavinoha is an associate at Bracewell LLP and focuses his practice on energy and infrastructure.

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Jeremy Wells

Jeremy Wells

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Jeremy Wells has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Wells is a partner at Reid Collins & Tsai and focuses his practice on complex commercial, insolvency, and qui tam litigation.

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Austin C. Whitmore

Austin C. Whitmore

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Austin C. Whitmore has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Whitmore is a senior associate at McGuire Craddock and focuses his practice on commercial real estate and finance.

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Ashley Wilder

Ashley Wilder

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Ashley Wilder has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. Wilder is an associate attorney at Marrs Ellis and focuses her practice on eminent domain litigation.

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Kelsi Stayart White

Kelsi Stayart White

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Kelsi Stayart White has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide. White is an associate at Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing and focuses her practice on commercial litigation.

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Amanda Goldstein

Amanda Goldstein

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Amanda Goldstein has been named to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide for her work in commercial litigation. Goldstein is an attorney at Hicks Thomas LLP, where she represents businesses and individuals in commercial litigation matters.

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Eric Nichols

Eric Nichols

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Eric Nichols has been appointed as chair of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. Nichols is a partner at Butler Snow LLP and previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas and as deputy attorney general for criminal justice in the Office of the Texas Attorney General.

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Richard Valle

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Richard Valle has been named one of the Best Car Accident Lawyers in Albuquerque by Forbes Advisor. Valle focuses on the plaintiff side, specializing in car accidents, personal injury, and products liability litigation.

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William G. Hagans

William G. Hagans

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William G. Hagans has been elected to the Texas Bar Foundation Board of Trustees, serving as fellows secretary. Hagans is president of the Hagans Montgomery Hagans law firm and has been a co-chair of the Texas Bar Foundation’s District 4 nominating committee since 2016.

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Alistair B. Dawson

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Alistair B. Dawson has been honored with the Judge Sam Williams Award by the State Bar of Texas Local Bar Services Committee. An attorney at Beck Redden, Dawson serves as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Board of Trial Advocates and a commissioner on the Texas Equal Access to Justice Commission.

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