Congratulations to this year’s Texas Legal Awards winners and finalists, who are being recognized for their meaningful work and achievements in 2021, and sometimes well before that.
We’ll be publishing profiles and Q&As of these fine attorneys in the coming months, leading up to the Texas Legal Awards event at the Arts District Mansion in Dallas in September, where we’ll announce the Attorney of the Year winner from among these three exceptional finalists. We hope to see you there.
Attorney of the Year Finalists
Thomas Melsheimer, Winston & Strawn
Randall Sorrels, Sorrels Law
Amy M. Stewart, Stewart Law Group
Lifetime Achievement
Robin Fredrickson, Latham & Watkins
Randy Gordon, Duane Morris
Andrew Kerr, Clark Hill
Mark Lanier, The Lanier Law Firm
Jay Martin, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Legal Innovators
Andrew Cates, Cates Legal Group
Karalynn Cromeens, The Cromeens Law Firm
Dwayne Hermes, Hermes Law and ClaimDeck
Chanille Juneau, Berry Appleman & Leiden
Ben Koplin, Reed Smith
Diversity and Inclusion Champions
Omar Alaniz, Reed Smith
Katie Anderson, Clark Hill
Steve Bolden, Bracewell
María Amelia Calaf, Wittliff Cutter
Wilson Chu, McDermott Will & Emery
Kelly Culhane, Culhane Meadows
Demetra Liggins, McGuireWoods
Michael Murphy, Winston & Strawn
Krystal Studavent Ramsey, Blank Rome
Annapoorni “Anna” Sankaran, Holland & Knight
Best Mentors
Will Bos, Kirkland & Ellis
Kenneth Broughton, Reed Smith
Stephanie Culpepper, Lument
Alicia Curran, Cozen O’Connor
Haseena Enu, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy
Alan Marcuis, Hunton Andrews Kurth
Jadd Masso, Clark Hill
Michelle Pector, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Hannah Roblyer, Beck Redden
Denise Scofield, Winston & Strawn
Nicole Williams, Thompson Coburn
Kenya Woodruff, Katten Muchin Rosenman
Litigation Departments of the Year
Susman Godfrey (General Litigation, Midsize)
Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing (General Litigation, Small)
Reid Collins & Tsai (Business Litigation)
McKool Smith (Intellectual Property Litigation)
In-House Impact
Michael Foley, Martin Resource Management Corp.
Kelli Roach, Black Mountain Sand
David Stryker, Huntsman International
Most Effective Dealmakers
Janice Davis, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Alain Dermarkar, Shearman & Sterling
Cleve Glenn, Frost Brown Todd
Joanna Lin, McDermott Will & Emery
Christopher May, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sarah Morgan, Vinson & Elkins
Gary Sorden, Cole Schotz
Rhett Van Syoc, Kirkland & Ellis
Thomas Yang, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Stuart Zisman, King & Spalding
Top Women in IP
Holly Engelmann, Duane Morris
Andrea Fair, Ward, Smith & Hill
Katherine Franco, Blank Rome
Jeannie Heffernan, Kirkland & Ellis
Janice Ta, Perkins Coie
Jennifer Truelove, McKool Smith
Women in Energy
Hillary Holmes, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Victoria Filippov-Nemeth, PPI Quality & Engineering
Lexie Worley, Jupiter Power
On the Rise
Fawaz Bham, Hunton Andrews Kurth
Florence Chen, Susman Godfrey
Matthew Dobbins, Vinson & Elkins
Amber Dodds, Bracewell
Jacqueline Furlow, Beck Redden
Caitlin Halpern, Gibbs & Bruns
Aaron Holt, Cozen O’Connor
Imad Khan, Winston & Strawn
Alexander Kuiper, Kuiper Law Firm
Tiffany Lam-Bentley, Berry Appleman & Leiden
Fabio Leonardi, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Texas
Brennan Meier, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Tony Nguyen, Fish & Richardson
David Passarelli, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Danielle Patterson, Vinson & Elkins
Julie Pettit, The Pettit Law Firm
Fernando Rodriguez-Cortina, King & Spalding
Liz Ryan, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Michelle Simpson Tuegel, Simpson Tuegel Law Firm
Quentin Smith, Vinson & Elkins
Nicole Soussan Caplan, Reed Smith
Gechi Tesic, Polsinelli
Thomas “Cullen” Wallace, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
DeAndrea Washington, Spencer Fane
Jasmine Wynton, Thompson Coburn
Betty Yang, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Krisina Zuniga, Susman Godfrey
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