Gardere Attorneys Earn Super Lawyers Recognition

A absolute of 44 attorneys from the Dallas and Houston offices of Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP accept becoming alternative to the 2008 Texas Super Lawyers list.

“We are acutely appreciative of all the attorneys at Gardere, and accept consistently believed that they are a allotment of the actual best in the Texas acknowledged community,” says Stephen D. Good, Gardere Managing Partner. “To accept so abounding of our colleagues called to this account is apocalyptic of the account and assurance these attorneys accept becoming in their careers.”

The Gardere attorneys called to this year’s account were included based on their plan in the afterward convenance areas: antitrust litigation, appellate, banking, defalcation & creditor/debtor rights, business litigation, business/corporate, noncombatant action defense, construction/surety, white-collar bent defense, agent benefits/ERISA, application & labor, application litigation/defense, environmental, acreage planning & probate, ancestors law, allowance coverage, bookish property, bookish acreage litigation, mergers & acquisitions, absolute estate, balance & accumulated finance, and tax.

With their alternative to the 2008 list, 26 of the firm’s attorneys accept been called anniversary of the six years the account has been compiled.

Texas Super Lawyer selections are based on associate nominations fabricated by added than 70,000 attorneys from above the state, with the final selections fabricated by a console of attorneys called by the Texas Super Lawyers editors. Fewer than 5 percent of the attorneys nominated in Texas were called for this honor.

The Super Lawyer account appears in the October 2008 affair of Texas Monthly and Texas Super Lawyers, a advertisement co-produced by the publishers of Texas Monthly and Law & Politics Media, Inc.

Earlier this year, 17 Gardere attorneys were called to appear on the Texas Rising Star list, a accompaniment to the Super Lawyers list. Rising Stars selections are based on nominations by associates of the Texas Super Lawyers list. Rising Stars are the top advancing Texas attorneys who are 40 or adolescent or accept been in convenance for beneath than 10 years.

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, an AmLaw 200 firm, was founded in 1909 and is one of the Southwest’s better full-service law firms. With offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston and Mexico City, Gardere provides acknowledged casework to clandestine and accessible companies and individuals in areas of energy, litigation, corporate, tax, environmental, activity and employment, bookish acreage and banking services.

Gardere Wynne Sewell Attorneys Named to Super Lawyers 2008 List
(Attorneys listed by convenance area)

Antitrust Litigation
Curtis L. Frisbie Jr., Dallas*
Mark W. Bayer, Dallas

Appellate
Cynthia Hollingsworth, Dallas
Stacy R. Obenhaus, Dallas*

Banking
Dan L. Nicewander, Dallas*

Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
Robert S. Blanc, Houston*
John P. Melko, Houston
Holland N. O'Neil, Dallas*
Richard M. Roberson, Dallas
Deirdre B. Ruckman, Dallas*

Business Litigation
Geoffrey H. Bracken, Houston
Craig B. Florence, Dallas
Joe B. Harrison, Dallas*
Robert M. Hoffman, Dallas*
Michael Lowenberg, Dallas*
William E. Matthews, Houston*

Business/Corporate
Frank Putman, Houston*

Civil Litigation Defense
Jeffrey S. Davis, Houston

Construction/Surety
D. Steven Henry, Dallas

Criminal Defense: White Collar
Thomas A. Hagemann, Houston*

Employee Benefits/ERISA
Tom Hoffman, Dallas

Employment & Labor
Ronald M. Gaswirth, Dallas
Douglas D. Haloftis, Dallas*
Carrie B. Hoffman, Dallas
Neil Martin, Houston
Rachel Powitzky Steely, Houston

Employment Litigation: Defense
Stuart E. Blaugrund, Dallas*

Environmental
Fran Phillips, Dallas*

Estate Planning & Probate
Keith V. Novick, Dallas*
Lawrence J. Pirtle, Houston*

Family Law
Douglas A. Harrison, Dallas

Insurance Coverage
J. James Cooper, Houston
John R. Pearson, Houston

Intellectual Property
Kenneth Glaser, Dallas*
Andre M. Szuwalski, Dallas

Intellectual Property Litigation
Peter S. Vogel, Dallas

Mergers & Acquisitions
Larry Schoenbrun, Dallas*

Real Estate
Kevin L. Kelley, Dallas*
Clifford J. Risman, Dallas*

Securities & Corporate Finance
Lawrence B. Goldstein, Dallas*
Alan J. Perkins, Dallas*
Richard A. Tulli, Dallas*

Tax
Allen B. Craig III, Houston*
Cym H. Lowell, Dallas*

* Six-time Texas Super Lawyer honoree.