Shamoil T. Shipchandler will join the Dallas office of Jones Day as a partner at the end of February. Shipchandler will be in the firm’s investigations and white-collar defense practice. He has served as director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fort Worth Regional Office since September 2015. He previously was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Texas, where he served as a deputy criminal chief and attorney-in-charge of the Plano office.
Robert Eckels, Arturo Michel and Sandy Hellums-Gomez have joined the Houston office of Husch Blackwell as partners. Eckels is a former Harris County judge and a former state representative. He is the founder and director of Texas Central Railway, the company responsible for developing and operating a new high-speed passenger train line between the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and Houston. Michel served as the Houston city attorney under Mayor Bill White and in his private practice has served as a general counsel for a number of entities, including the Houston Independent School District. Hellums-Gomez has approximately 20 years of experience as a public law attorney and represents an array of educational institutions as well as other government entities.
