Newsmakers: Week of Feb. 3
New Shareholder Joins Firm's Dallas Office Continuing to build on its growing global Corporate Practice, Greenberg Traurig has welcomed corporate…
February 03, 2020 at 09:00 AM
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New Shareholder Joins Firm's Dallas Office
Continuing to build on its growing global Corporate Practice, Greenberg Traurig has welcomed corporate attorney John T. Holland as a shareholder in its Dallas office. Holland joins the firm from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Holland focuses his practice on corporate and securities law, including domestic and multinational mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, combinations, and joint ventures and strategic alliances, both for strategic and financial investors and for publicly traded and privately held companies. Holland advises companies across a wide variety of industries, including the energy, aviation, insurance, health care, and financial services industries. He received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2009 and his B.A. from the Dickinson College in 2005. Holland is licensed in both Texas and New York.
Texas Firm Adds Five Attorneys
Kane Russell Coleman Logan has added five new attorneys to the firm. Andrew Dao, Kathryn Laflin, Gizem Petrosino, Kathleen Thompson are the firm's newest litigators, and S. Kyle Woodard is the newest attorney in the bankruptcy group. Dao, Laflin and Petrosino joined the firm's Houston office, and Thompson and Woodard are based in Dallas.
Andrew Dao joins the firm as a senior attorney. He has considerable experience handling catastrophic cases, maritime cases, employment cases and commercial litigation disputes. Dao obtained his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center after completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Jones Scholar and National Merit Scholar.
Kathryn G. Laflin joins the firm as an associate litigator whose practice is focused on matters such as insurance coverage, product liability, real estate and construction. Laflin earned her J.D. at the University of Houston Law Center, where she served as Articles Editor for the Houston Journal of International Law, and Summer General Editor for the Harvard Journal of Public Law and Policy. For her undergraduate degree, Laflin studied political science and international relations at Mary Baldwin College.
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