Brian Cassidy, Locke Lord Austin office Managing Partner.Newsmakers: Week of Dec. 24
Brian Cassidy, managing partner of Locke Lord's Austin office, received the Community Service Award from the Real Estate Council of Austin at RECA's…
December 26, 2018 at 12:34 PM
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Brian Cassidy, managing partner of Locke Lord's Austin office, received the Community Service Award from the Real Estate Council of Austin at RECA's 2018 annual awards luncheon and membership meeting Dec. 11. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the local community and who serve as role models for compassion and service. Cassidy is a past chair and current board and executive committee member of RECA. He will begin serving as chair of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce in January 2019.
John Eddie Williams Jr., founder and managing partner of Houston-based Williams Kherkher, recently received the Texas Trial Lawyer Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, according to the TTLA, “in recognition of his career of meaningful and pioneering representation of injured clients, the numerous offices and positions he has held in local, state and national bar, civil justice and trial lawyer organizations, and community service that brings credit to trial lawyers and the legal profession.”
Sean Tracey, founding partner of Tracey Fox in Houston, and his wife, Kari, were honored in November for their support of the William J. Flynn Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. Tracey provides legal representation to personal injury victims.
New Positions
Matthew B. Grunert has joined Bracewell's Houston office as a partner in the firm's employee benefits and executive compensation group. Grunert formerly was a partner in Hunton Andrews Kurth in Houston.
Robert Garner, Jonathan Katz and David Weiss, all Houston-based attorneys, are among 30 new partners in King & Spalding. Garner and Katz represent owners and developers in their construction projects, including power plants and petrochemical facilities. Weiss concentrates his practice on investor-state arbitration and international commercial disputes, among other matters.
Lisa H. Meyerhoff and Myall S. Hawkins have joined the Houston office of Seyfarth Shaw as partners in the firm's litigation department and intellectual property practice. Meyerhoff and Hawkins formerly were members of Baker and McKenzie's international intellectual property team, which Meyerhoff led for that firm's Houston office.
Sean Cichowski and Robert Weitzel are among 21 lawyers promoted to partners in Akerman . Cichowski is based in the firm's Houston office, and Weitzel is in the Dallas office. Both have litigation practices.
KoonsFuller Family Law has promoted five of its attorneys to the position of partner. Neda Garrett and Chris Meuse are new partners in the firm's Plano office. Laura Hayes and Sally Pretorius have become partners in the Dallas office, and Taylor Imel is a new partner in Houston. All are board certified in family law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
Honor
George E. Bowles, of counsel in the Dallas office of Locke Lord, has been named a Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers. Bowles concentrates his practice on complex business-related litigation.
Elected
Megan H Schmid, a Houston associate with Thompson & Knight, has been elected to the board of trustees for the Women's Resource of Greater Houston. Her three-year term began in November. Schmid is in Thompson & Knight's trial practice group.
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