John T. Holland, Greenberg Traurig. Photo Credit: Gittings Photography.

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.

Gizem Petrosino joins the firm as an associate in the energy practice group. Her practice is focused on litigation, employment, and intellectual property matters in the energy space. Licensed to practice in New York and Texas, Petrosino received her J.D. from Albany Law School and earned a B.A. in chemistry from the University of Virginia.

Kathleen Thompson joins the firm as an associate in the commercial litigation section of the firm. Thompson graduated cum laude from SMU Dedman School of Law, where she served as Articles Editor for the Science and Technology Journal. She also externed with District Judge Amos Mazzant in the Eastern District of Texas and worked with SMU's innocence clinic. Thompson earned her B.A. in History, cum laude, from SMU.

Kyle Woodard joins the firm as an associate in the firm's Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Creditors' Rights group. Woodard has experience representing clients in all facets of bankruptcy law and related litigation. He earned his J.D. from the University of Oklahoma College of Law and was awarded a scholarship by the Oklahoma Bar Association for his performance in the areas of bankruptcy and secured transactions. Prior to law school, Woodard earned a B.B.A. in finance from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dallas Firm Elevates Two to Shareholder

Arrissa K. Meyer and Jonathan G. Rector, attorneys in the Dallas office of Littler, a prominent employment and labor law practice firm representing management, have been elevated to shareholder, effective Jan. 1.

Meyer focuses her practice on traditional labor law, handling unfair labor practice charges, representing employers in labor arbitration and grievance proceedings, negotiating collective bargaining agreements, assisting clients through representation elections, performing union avoidance training sessions, and providing advice and counsel regarding labor management relations. Meyer earned her J.D. from Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law and her B.A. from the University of Oklahoma.

Rector represents employers in a variety of key industries, including technology, energy, and transportation, as well as start-ups and small businesses. His practice and experience includes wage and hour class and collective actions, complex, large-scale wage and hour audits and reclassification projects, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in the workplace, labor arbitrations over contract interpretation and discipline grievances, unfair labor practice charges, National Labor Relations Act and Railway Labor Act litigation, DOL and EEOC investigations, workplace investigations, whistleblower claims and high-level executive compensation disparities. Rector earned his J.D. from the University of Oklahoma College of Law and his B.A. from the University of Texas, Dallas.

 Texas Firm Promotes Six Attorneys to Partner

Norton Rose Fulbright has promoted six Texas attorneys to partner, effective Jan. 1.

 Stephanie DeBrow is a litigator in the firm's Austin office whose practice focuses on patent litigation and appeals. She represents clients in a variety of fields, including mechanical, telecommunications, computer, semiconductor, e-commerce and Internet technologies. She received her J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law and B.S. in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University. DeBrow served as a judicial clerk to Judge Timothy B. Dyk of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

John Herring is a litigator in Norton Rose Fulbright's Dallas office whose practice focuses on complex business disputes and tort litigation related to catastrophic loss, including facilities, injuries and fatalities. He has significant experience in transportation, premises liability and insurance- and indemnity-related disputes, and represents companies against claims by employees, sub-contractors and third parties arising from performance under construction or service contracts. He earned his J.D. at St. Mary's University School of Law and his B.A. at Baylor University in Waco, Texas

Trevor Pinkerton is a corporate lawyer whose practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and securities for a range of clients, including financial institutions, investment banks, energy and petroleum companies, and oil field service providers. Based in Norton Rose Fulbright's Houston office, he has significant experience in counseling clients in public and private mergers and acquisitions and in handling initial public offerings and follow-on offerings. Pinkerton earned his J.D. at Emory Law School, his Master of Theological Studies at Emory University and his B.A. at Rice University.

Rachel Roosth is a disputes lawyer based in Norton Rose Fulbright's Houston office whose practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and arbitration involving contract, construction, insurance, employment, fiduciary, and securities law. Her clients are in the health-care, insurance, energy, construction and financial industries. She received her J.D. at Harvard Law School and her B.A. at the University of Missouri.

Henry Stark is a corporate, mergers and acquisitions and securities lawyer in Norton Rose Fulbright's Dallas office. He represents buyers and sellers in public and private, domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and securities transactions. He received his J.D. at Northwestern University School of Law and his B.A. at the University of Michigan.

 Peter Tipps is a disputes lawyer whose practice focuses on complex commercial litigation involving the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry. Based in Houston, he also has significant experience representing petrochemical facilities in mass-tort litigation, and private and public condemnors in eminent domain proceedings in Texas. He has given lectures on pipeline acquisition-condemnation in Texas. He received his J.D. at Boston College and his B.A. at Tulane University.