Newsmakers: Week of Dec. 16

Transactional attorney Nimroz Ali has joined Underwood Law Firm in Fort Worth as an associate and will focus his practice on commercial real estate and business transactions. Ali has represented a wide variety of clients, from individuals and small businesses to large, publicly-traded corporations, in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, franchising, loan documentation and real estate deals locally, nationally and internationally. He previously worked with Pappas Law Group in Fort Worth, Salek & Ali in Austin and Harrison Hull in McKinney, Texas. He graduated in 2016 with his Juris Doctor from the University of Houston Law Center and earned his Bachelor’s of Business Administration in 2011 from The University of Texas. He is a member of the Mergers & Acquisition Committee of the State Bar of Texas.

New Associate Joins Dallas-BasedTrial Firm 

Attorney Monica Niewiarowski has joined Bailey Brauer, helping bolster the Dallas-based boutique’s complex commercial litigation, trial and appellate practices. She  joins Bailey Brauer as an associate from the Dallas office of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, where she focused primarily on product liability and toxic torts litigation. A 2016 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, she served as a judicial intern for Justice Douglas Lang of the Texas Fifth Court of Appeals. She also worked with the Legal Aid Justice Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she assisted low-income residents with landlord-tenant disputes. She graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2013 and is an alumna of the school’s prestigious Eugene McDermott Scholars Program. “I am impressed with the quality of cases and the expertise of Bailey Brauer’s lawyers. I look forward to learning from these talented attorneys and growing my litigation practice in a new direction, including employment-related work,” said  Niewiarowski, a member of the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers’ 2019 Leadership Class, in a statement by the firm. Her employment litigation focus will include trade secrets, discrimination, retaliation, wage and hour claims, ADA, and regulatory agency investigations. 

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