Thompson & Knight Attorneys Named Best Lawyers

The all-around law close of Thompson & Knight LLP is admiring to advertise The Best Lawyers in America® has called four of the Firm’s Partners as “Lawyer of the Year” in their corresponding areas of practice. The attorneys are:

•Scott D. Deatherage, Dallas Environmental Lawyer of the Year
•Gregory S.C. Huffman, Dallas Antitrust Lawyer of the Year
•John H. Martin, Dallas Personal Injury Litigator of the Year
•Emily A. Parker, Dallas Tax Lawyer of the Year.

The advertisement designates one “Lawyer of the Year” by convenance across in above city regions above the nation. This year, the advertisement accustomed 17 attorneys in the Dallas across based on consistently top ratings in peer-based surveys for acknowledged abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

“We abide to accept – as we accept believed for added than 25 years – that acceptance by one’s aeon is the a lot of allusive anatomy of acclaim in the acknowledged profession,” said Steven Naifeh, managing editor of Best Lawyers.

Best Lawyers is the oldest lawyer-rating advertisement in the United States. The aggregation compiles its listings through all-embracing peer-review surveys and tabulates added than 2.5 actor ballots every year. The Best Lawyers in America continues to be the alone advertisement-free barometer adviser to the acknowledged profession and includes added than 36,000 attorneys in 78 convenance areas, accoutrement all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Best Lawyers aswell evaluates attorneys common and publishes its all-around lists online at www.bestlawyers.com.

Mr. Deatherage serves as the Firm’s Climate Change and Renewable Energy Practice Group Leader and is a affiliate of the Environmental Practice Group. He has been with the Firm for added than 20 years, and his ability covers a all-inclusive ambit of ecology matters, including permitting, compliance, and accurate law. He advises audience on altitude change adjustment and acknowledged and business issues surrounding carbon credits and carbon trading. Mr. Deatherage is currently autograph a book advantaged “Carbon Trading Law and Practice” for Oxford University Press that will be appear in 2010.

Mr. Huffman is arch of Thompson & Knight’s antitrust convenance across and has been with the Firm for added than 35 years. He has approved abounding precedent-setting cases and has authored amendments for both federal and accompaniment antitrust laws. Mr. Huffman is a common apostle and columnist on antitrust, circuitous litigation, and added able topics.

Mr. Martin is a affiliate of the Firm’s Complex Tort and Products Liability Practice Group. He has been with the Firm for 35 years and is broadly accustomed for his acknowledged plan and accessible speaking on the capacity of adverse injury, accumulation tort, and aerodynamics litigation. Mr. Martin is one of the state’s a lot of acclaimed attorneys in the noncombatant aegis acreage and afresh served as President of DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar, an all-embracing alignment of added than 22,500 aegis balloon attorneys and accumulated counsel.

Ms. Parker is a affiliate of the Firm’s Tax Practice Group. She has been with the Firm for her absolute career of added than 35 years, except for a two-year appellation as Acting Chief Counsel and Deputy Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service. She has represented audience in a amount of precedent-setting cases that absitively important industry issues and developed ahead active issues of tax law. Ms. Parker is Board Certified in Tax Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

About Thompson & Knight
Since 1887, Thompson & Knight LLP has consistently fabricated a absolute appulse on its clients’ successes. With its convenance focused on the activity industry, the Firm has all-encompassing assets in litigation, tax, insolvency, and all-embracing activity matters. The Firm has about 420 attorneys, and has offices and alliances in North America, South America, Europe, and Africa. Thompson & Knight represents companies, government entities, and individuals in local, regional, and civic markets about the world.