McKool Smith Announces Latest Addition in Washington, DC

The civic law close of McKool Smith is announcement the firm’s connected amplification in the nation’s basic with the accession of bookish acreage litigator Jeffrey I. Frey.

Mr. Frey joins the firm’s Washington, D.C., appointment as a arch afterwards ahead practicing with Dewey & LeBeouf.

“As our audience abide to aggrandize their role in Washington, D.C., so has our firm,” says Mike McKool, co-founder of McKool Smith. “Jeff is a actual accomplished advocate and his ability in bookish acreage action is a acceptable addition.”

Mr. Frey’s convenance is adherent to bookish acreage litigation, including plan involving semiconductor technology, adaptable blast and added arrangement communications, computer aegis systems, and medical accessory patents. Like abounding of the attorneys at McKool Smith, he holds an beat amount in electrical engineering.

A above federal agent for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Mr. Frey aswell handles appellate plan for calm and all-embracing clients.

Prior to his acknowledged career, Mr. Frey served as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at both Cornell University and the University of Maryland. He provides audience with attenuate acumen in bookish acreage affairs based on his abounding years as an drillmaster and practicing attorney.

McKool Smith is accustomed as one of the arch balloon law firms in the United States based on cogent attorneys victories and abundant settlements for calm and all-embracing clients. With added than 100 attorneys in Dallas, Austin, Marshall, New York, and Washington DC, McKool Smith handles commercial, bookish acreage and white collar action for companies and individuals, including above airlines, telecommunications companies, medical accessory manufacturers, oil & gas concerns, and abounding others. McKool Smith is accustomed in The National Law Journal for acceptable added of the Top 100 Verdicts of 2008 than any added law close in the country.

For added advice on McKool Smith’s rapidly growing appointment in Washington, D.C., amuse acquaintance Bruce Vincent at 800.559.4534 or bruce@androvett.com.

McKool Smith Attorneys Honored Among State

Thirteen attorneys from the Dallas, Austin and Marshall, Texas, offices of McKool Smith are accustomed in this year’s Texas Super Lawyers advertisement of the top attorneys in Texas.

The celebrated account represents the top 5 percent of attorneys in Texas as articular in a accurate screening action based on associate nominations, a blue-ribbon board analysis and absolute analysis by Texas Super Lawyers editors.

Three McKool Smith attorneys are singled out for appropriate acceptance based on their all-embracing point array in the alternative process.

McKool Smith co-founder Mike McKool and arch Ted Stevenson are accustomed a allotment of the Top 100 attorneys in Texas.

Firm arch Sam Baxter is featured a allotment of the Top 100 attorneys in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

The afterward McKool Smith principals appear on the 2009 Super Lawyers list:

•Peter J. Ayers, Austin
•Samuel F. Baxter, Dallas/Marshall
•Douglas A. Cawley, Dallas
•Gary Cruciani, Dallas
•Robert E. Goodfriend, Dallas
•Thomas A. Graves, Dallas
•Lewis LeClair, Dallas
•Robert M. Manley, Dallas
•Mike McKool, Dallas
•Steven J. Pollinger, Austin
•Theodore Stevenson III, Dallas
•Gordon T. White, Austin
•Steven D. Wolens, Dallas

Texas Super Lawyers honorees will be featured in the October 2009 copy of Texas Monthly and Texas Super Lawyers magazine, which is appear by Law & Politics Inc. in affiliation with Texas Monthly.

“Our attorneys are focused on their plan and accomplishing the actual best accessible aftereffect for their clients,” says Mr. McKool. “I’m adequate if our plan is accustomed in cold forums like Texas Super Lawyers.”

McKool Smith is accustomed as one of the arch balloon law firms in the United States based on cogent attorneys victories and abundant settlements for calm and all-embracing clients. With added than 100 attorneys in Dallas, Austin, Marshall, New York, and Washington DC, McKool Smith handles commercial, bookish acreage and white collar action for companies and individuals, including above airlines, telecommunications companies, medical accessory manufacturers, oil & gas concerns, and abounding others. McKool Smith is accustomed in The National Law Journal for acceptable added of the Top 100 Verdicts of 2008 than any added law close in the country.

To apprentice added about McKool Smith, amuse appointment the close Web website at www.mckoolsmith.com. For added information, amuse acquaintance Bruce Vincent at 214.559.4630 or bruce@androvett.com.

McKool Smith Expanding National Bankruptcy Practice

The civic action close of McKool Smith is announcement the connected amplification of the firm’s Houston appointment with the accession of defalcation litigator Basil A. Umari.

Mr. Umari joins McKool Smith’s defalcation convenance in Houston as a arch afterwards ahead practicing with Andrews Kurth. The firm’s defalcation convenance was accustomed in October 2009 and is led by acclaimed defalcation specialist Hugh Ray.

“McKool Smith is committed to accepting one of the top defalcation practices in the world, and the accession of Basil is addition footfall appear that goal,” says Mike McKool, co-founder of McKool Smith. “His acquaintance in cogent defalcation affairs will accomplish Basil an basic allotment of our team.”

Mr. Umari represents debtors, creditor committees, anchored and apart creditors, and added parties in around every blazon of defalcation proceeding. He has represented audience from a array of industries, including banks, oil and gas producers, healthcare entities, address manufacturers, and abounding others.

A alum of The University of Texas School of Law with top honors, Mr. Umari becoming his undergraduate amount in aesthetics and mathematics from Amherst College. Following law school, Mr. Umari served as a appointment advocate for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Since entering clandestine practice, Mr. Umari has been accustomed four times a allotment of Texas’ top adolescent attorneys in the Texas Rising Stars account appear in Texas Monthly annual based on his plan in defalcation matters.

McKool Smith is accustomed as one of the arch balloon law firms in the United States based on cogent attorneys victories and abundant settlements for calm and all-embracing clients. With added than 100 attorneys in Dallas, Austin, Houston, Marshall, New York, and Washington DC, McKool Smith handles defalcation affairs and commercial, bookish acreage and white collar action for companies and individuals, including above airlines, telecommunications companies, medical accessory manufacturers, oil & gas concerns, and abounding others. McKool Smith is accustomed in The National Law Journal for acceptable added of the Top 100 Verdicts of 2008 than any added law close in the country.

For added information, amuse acquaintance Bruce Vincent at 800.559.4534 or bruce@androvett.com.