Laura Edrington, managing partner of Locke Lord’s Houston office, was named a 2018 inductee in the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame in recognition of her contributions to the advancement of women and improved quality of life for future generations of Houstonians. Edrington also was named a Houston Business Journal 2018 “Women Who Mean Business” honoree in the Outstanding Leaders in Law category.

Patrick J. O’Connor, a trial attorney with Law Offices of Patrick J. O’Connor in Austin, was named “Lawyer of the Year” by the Washington, D.C.-based Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund. In 2018, O’Connor saw resolution of four fraud cases he brought in which the U.S. Department of Justice secured settlements of more than $44 million against health care providers. O’Connell was the first chief of the Office of the Attorney General’s Civil Medicaid Fraud Section.