Newsmakers: Week of Aug. 27
Amanda Woog is the new executive director of the Texas Fair Defense Project's board of directors. Woog recently completed a research fellowship at…
August 27, 2018 at 10:16 AM
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Amanda Woog is the new executive director of the Texas Fair Defense Project's board of directors. Woog recently completed a research fellowship at the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. While a fellow at the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis at the University of Texas at Austin, Woog discovered and analyzed custodial death data and published it and her data online, forming the first iteration of the Texas Justice Initiative.
David Ammons has joined the Houston office of Haynes and Boone as a partner. Ammons chairs the Dallas Bar Association's energy law section and focuses his practice on representing onshore and offshore oil and gas producers, gas marketing companies, pipeline companies and petrochemical and refining companies in complex state and federal suits, including lease, joint interest and royalty disputes and class actions.
Joseph R. Anderson and Katie Harrington have joined the Houston office of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings as associates in the firm's construction and government contracts practice group. Anderson focuses his practice primarily on construction and financial services litigation. Harrington focuses on construction and energy litigation.
Elected
Edwin Buffmire, a Dallas associate in Jackson Walker, has been elected to the State Bar of Texas Antitrust and Business Litigation Section Council for a term of three years. Buffmire represents clients in antitrust, class action, trade secret, white collar and other complex disputes.
Honors
Benny Agosto Jr., a partner in Houston-based Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Aziz, has been selected to be a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. Agosto has practiced law at Abraham Watkins since 1998 and focuses his practice on person injury law.
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