Newsmakers: Week of April 30
Tricia DeLeon, a trial lawyer, has joined Holland & Knight as a litigation partner in the firm's Dallas office. DeLeon is in Holland & Knight's…
April 30, 2018 at 10:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Texas Lawyer
Tricia DeLeon, a trial lawyer, has joined Holland & Knight as a litigation partner in the firm's Dallas office. DeLeon is in Holland & Knight's litigation and dispute resolution practice and has more than 18 years of experience in business litigation. She also is in the firm's financial services industry group and has experience handling matters for financial institutions, including bankruptcy and creditors' rights issues and director and officer insurance disputes.
New Positions
Carolyn L. Mitchell has joined the Houston office of Jackson Walker as senior counsel. Mitchell, who has more than 15 years of experience in large health care systems, is in the firm's health care practice. She is joining Jackson Walker through the OnRamp Fellowship, a program that is working to increase the number of women lawyers in leadership roles. The program provides yearlong paid fellowships to experienced female lawyers.
Sarah Reilly, a veteran real estate attorney, has joined Kruger Carson, which has offices in Austin and San Antonio. Reilly has represented developers, financial institutions, landlords and tenants in leasing, lending, acquisitions, dispositions and development. She previously led the real estate legal department at Visionworks of America.
Awards and Recognitions
Bree Buchanan, executive director of the Texas Lawyers' Assistance Program of the State Bar of Texas, has received the 2018 Excellence in Community Leadership Award from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation's Legal Professionals Program. Buchanan is co-chair of the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being.
Steven T. Jugle, a patent attorney with Baker Botts in Dallas, has received the Distinguished Young Alumni Award from Indiana's Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in recognition of his career achievements, community service and service to the institute. Jugle earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Rose-Hulman in 2007.
The State Bar of Texas Board of Directors and Tom Vick, the bar's president, presented resolutions to the following during the board's quarterly meeting April 27 in Fort Worth: Brent A. Carr, presiding judge of the Tarrant County Criminal Court No. 9 since its creation in 1991; John H. Fostel, who died in 2017 in his 23rd year of serving Jack and Wise counties presiding over the civil, family and criminal courts; Hugh C. Akin, executive director of the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation for the Study and Teaching of the Science of Self-Government; and the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Committee.
New Location
Hampton & King, a medical malpractice law firm based in Houston, has relocated its offices to 2603 Augusta Drive, Suite 1300, in the Houston Galleria. The firm's phone number is 713-489-0993.
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