Texas Lawyer is proud to announce the winners of our 2018 Professional Excellence Awards including Litigation Department of the Year for midsize and small firms, Legal Department of the Year, Lifetime Achievers, Best Mentors, Top Woman in IP and On the Rise.
This list recognizes lawyers who have made their mark on the legal profession in the Lone Star State.
All of the honorees have had, and continue to have, extraordinary careers. The bottom line: They are all impact players in the Texas legal community.
Profiles of the honorees will be published in the September issue of Texas Lawyer magazine. An awards ceremony in their honor will be held on Sept. 19 at the Belo Mansion in Dallas.
Congratulations to this amazing list of lawyers!
Legal Department of the Year
Trinity Industries, Inc.
Litigation Departments of the Year
Small Firm Winner: Smyser Kaplan & Veselka
Small Firm Finalist: Fanning Harper Martinson Brandt & Kutchin (FHMBK)
Midsize Firm Winner: McKool Smith
Midsize Firm Finalist: Munck Wilson Mandala
Lifetime Achievement
Emerson Banack, Langley & Banack
Douglas Cawley, McKool Smith
Byron Egan, Jackson Walker
Alan Feld, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Abe Goren, Wilson, Cribbs + Goren
Paula Hinton, Winston & Strawn
James Leahy, Greenberg Traurig
David Lowery, Jones Day
Bobby Meadows, King & Spalding
Chad Muller, Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry
Mike O’Leary, Hunton Andrews Kurth
David Patton, Locke Lord
Glenn West, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Best Mentors
Daryl Bailey, Gray Reed & McGraw
Mary Goodrich Nix, Holland & Knight
Michael Hurst, Lynn Pinker Cox & Hurst
Top Dealmakers
Winner: Andrew Calder, Kirkland & Ellis
Finalist: Paul J. Goodwine, Looper Goodwine
Top Woman in IP
Miranda Jones, Heim, Payne & Chorush
On the Rise
Ricardo Bonilla, Fish & Richardson
Josh Budwin, McKool Smith
David Castro, Kirkland & Ellis
Kelly Chen, Munck Wilson Mandala
Courtney Cochran Butler, Hunton Andrews Kurth
Katie Coleman, Thompson & Knight
Christopher Dodson, Bracewell
Natalie Friend Wilson, Langley & Banack
Daniel Knight, Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry
Brandt Leibe, King & Spalding
Benton Lewis, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Erland Modesto, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
JR Morgan, Shearman & Sterling
Bina Palnitkar, Greenberg Traurig
Nicole Perry, Jones Day
Sakina Rasheed Foster, Haynes Boone
Eagle Robinson, Norton Rose Fulbright
Rob Safi, Susman Godfrey
John CC Sanders, Winston & Strawn
Lizzy Scott, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Chris Simmons, Deans & Lyons
Lande Spottswood, Vinson & Elkins
Angelique Waddell, Holland & Knight
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