Newsmakers: Week of May 28, 2018
Mo Aziz, a partner in Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Aziz in Houston, has received the Distinguished Member Award from the South Asian Bar Association of Houston.
May 28, 2018 at 09:00 AM
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Mo Aziz, a partner in Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Aziz in Houston, has received the Distinguished Member Award from the South Asian Bar Association of Houston. The association presented the award to Aziz at the SABA Houston annual Charity Gala on May 19. The award recognizes a member for outstanding achievements and significant contributions to the legal community. In his practice, Aziz handles a variety of personal injury and business litigation cases.
Awards
Baker Botts has received Becket's 2018 Legal Services Award for outstanding contributions to religious liberty. Among other cases, Baker Botts represented the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas in a decadelong lawsuit against the federal government over a U.S. Fish and Wildlife agent's confiscation of the tribe's sacred feathers. A settlement reached with the federal government in 2016 recognizes the members' right to freely use eagle feathers in observance of their native faith. Becket presented the award to the firm at its annual Canterbury Medal Gala held May 24 in New York.
New Positions
Christine Williford has joined the Dallas office of Locke Lord as a partner in the firm's corporate practice group. Williford has a broad corporate and securities practice that focuses on representing buyers and sellers private mergers and acquisitions, as well as capital market transactions and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and compliance. She joins Locke Lord from Hunton Andrews Kurth.
Scott Nelson has joined Seyfarth Shaw as a partner in the firm's labor and employment department in Houston. Nelson focuses his practice on domestic and international labor and employment matters, as well as complex commercial litigation. He joined Seyfarth from Baker McKenzie in Houston, where he was a partner and until recently its U.S. employment and litigation practice leader.
Elizabeth Carol Freeman and Michelle Rosenblatt have joined Jackson Walker as partners. Freeman, a former law clerk to the chief judge of the Southern District of Texas, has a bankruptcy litigation practice. She is based in the Houston office. Rosenblatt, who is in the wealth planning practice, is in the firm's Austin office. She concentrates on U.S. and international tax, estate and wealth preservation planning. Jason Rodgers has joined Jackson Walker as senior counsel in its Fort Worth office. Formerly with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement division, Rodgers is in the firm's white-collar defense and investigations practice.
Appointment
Mary Hazelwood Barkley, a partner in Cantey Hanger in Fort Worth, has been reappointed for a second three-year term to the Texas Bar Journal board of editors.
Elected
Quentin Brogdon, a partner in Crain Lewis Brogdon in Dallas, has been elected president-elect of the Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America. Brogdon has more than 25 years of experience in the field of personal injury law.
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