Butler Snow continues to expand its presence in Texas with the additions of Candice M. Carson to the firm's Dallas office. Candice M. Carson[Photo Credit: Barrett Photography; Michael & Dianne.]
Butler Snow continues to expand its presence in Texas with the additions of  Candice M. Carson  to the firm's Dallas office and  Thomas A. Forbes  to the firm's Austin office. Carson joined June 1 as senior counsel and will practice with the firm's finance, real estate and restructuring group. She focuses her practice on bankruptcy and restructuring, serving business clients across a variety of industries including automotive, airline, oil and gas, medical and retail. Carson is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the Dallas Bar Association. She received her bachelor's degree, cum laude, from the University of Florida and her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.  Forbes joined as a partner June 1 and will practice with the firm's regulatory and government group. He focuses his practice on government affairs, regulatory matters and business transactions. Forbes is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Texas Bar Foundation and the Austin Bar Foundation, and is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas and the Austin Bar Association. He received his bachelor's degree from Southwestern University and his Juris Doctor from Baylor Law School in Waco, Texas.

New Positions

The Houston law firm of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Aziz announced that Karl Long has joined the firm as an associate. Long's current practice focuses on a range of personal injury matters, including product liability, passenger bus accidents, premises liability, construction accidents and workplace injuries. He joined Abraham Watkins in 2009 as a contract attorney, and now returns as an associate with the valuable experience and perspective gained from seven years of practice at a defense litigation firm. He is admitted to practice in all federal district courts in Texas and is a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Houston Bar Association, and Houston Trial Lawyers Association.

Kelly L. Davis has joined The Bassett Firm in Dallas as an associate as of June 17. Her practice areas include insurance defense, health law and personal injury. She received her J.D. from the University of Wyoming College of Law in Laramie, and her Bachelor of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She was admitted to the Texas State Bar in 2012, and is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Texas, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

The Houston office of Greenberg Traurig continues the expansion of its corporate, finance and private equity capabilities with the addition of corporate finance attorney Steven Rubin. He joins Greenberg Traurig's corporate practice as of counsel. Rubin's addition will help in expanding the Houston office's corporate practice in matters involving mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, tender offers, proxy contests, restructuring, public and private equity and debt financings, and other international and domestic transactions, including transactions in Latin America, according to a statement by the firm. Rubin was previously a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, starting his legal career there over 30 years ago, working in that firm's New York and Houston offices. 

Lewis Brisbois in Dallas welcomed Matthew E. Yarbrough as a partner and Sam Genovese as an associate in the data privacy and cybersecurity practice. Yarbrough has provided legal expertise in the area of data privacy, cybersecurity, government investigations and eDiscovery for over 25 years. For the past two years, Genovese has worked with Yarbrough on data privacy and cybersecurity matters. Yarbrough formerly served as a cyber attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in the national Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section program. 

McGlinchey Stafford announced that Stacey Fuller, Matthew Knox, Murad Salim and Daniel Troiano have joined the firm's Texas commercial litigation practice as associates. Fuller and Knox are based in McGlinchey Stafford's Houston office, and Salim and Troiano have joined the firm's Dallas office. Fuller negotiates and documents commercial loans and distressed loan workouts, and works on commercial bankruptcies as well as commercial litigation matters. She also represents financial institutions with the firm's creditors rights practice group. Knox has experience representing banks and financial institutions in disputes involving state and federal consumer protection, licensing, lending, usury, leasing and sales. Salim works primarily with commercial litigation clients in Texas state and federal courts. Prior to joining McGlinchey Stafford, he clerked for the U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas in Dallas. Troiano has experience with insurance litigation, insurance coverage, tort defense, and appellate matters. 

Winston & Strawn continues to strengthen its litigation and energy practice capabilities with the addition of trial lawyer James “Jim” Nye. Joining from Baker Hostetler, Nye will serve as a partner in Winston's Houston office and focus on complex commercial litigation with a concentration in the energy industry. Nye's practice focuses on several areas of litigation, including commercial, real estate, environmental and trade secrets. In addition to his extensive track record in trial work, Nye has substantial experience with arbitration. 

New Partners

Taylor Anderson has joined Cantey Hanger as a partner in the firm's Dallas office. He will practice within the firm's litigation section and has an active trial practice in the areas of commercial, real estate and title insurance. He has experience handling family law and oil and gas transactions. He was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in November 2011. “I look forward to the opportunity to grow my practice with the additional resources Cantey Hanger provides and that my clients deserve,” Anderson said in a statement by the firm.

Morgan Lewis announced June 12 that three lawyers have been elected to the partnership in the firm's Houston office, effective Oct. 1. Amanda M. Goceljak represents public and private company clients in a range of U.S. and cross-border transactions, primarily in the life sciences industry. She advises pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, diagnostics and technology companies in the negotiation and structuring of licensing transactions, complex collaborations, joint ventures, strategic partnering, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and supply and distribution arrangements. Lauren A. McCulloch counsels clients concerning business and corporate disputes, corporate investigations and criminal defense, environmental, international arbitration, patent and trademark, securities, toxic tort, and product liability issues. Thomas Cullen Wallace defends employers in U.S. federal and state courts and before administrative agencies such as the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). 

Office Moves

The Dallas litigation boutique Bailey Brauer celebrated its sixth anniversary with a move from the second to the sixth floor of Dallas' Campbell Centre I, 8350 N. Central Expressway, which doubled the firm's office space. “The new office is more reflective of who we are as a firm. We were at capacity for quite some time in our previous office and this gives us the much-needed room to expand,” said firm co-founder Clayton Bailey in a statement released by the firm, Along with Bailey and co-founder Alex Brauer, the firm currently includes veteran business litigator Gary Powell, complex commercial and bankruptcy litigator Benjamin Stewart, and litigator and regulatory attorney Adam Bell. Additional attorneys are expected to join the firm this summer.