HOUSTON – Demetra Liggins has joined McGuireWoods’ Restructuring & Insolvency Department as a partner in Houston, bringing more than two decades of experience in business finance and restructuring for public and private companies, a press release states.
HOUSTON – Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Saira S. Siddiqui, an associate in the firm’s Houston office, has been named to the board for the South Asian Bar Association of Houston (SABA Houston) as the Vice President of Community Outreach, a press release states. Her term began June 12.
Bradley is pleased to announce that 24 attorneys have joined the firm’s offices in Birmingham; Charlotte, N.C.; Houston, Tex.; Jackson, Miss.; Nashville, Tenn.; and Tampa, Fla.
International law firm Clark Hill PLC announced on June 16 that Richard Tye has joined the firm as Of Counsel and Matthew Lovell has joined as Senior Attorney, both in the Tax & Estate Planning practice in Clark Hill’s San Antonio office.
HOUSTON - The adult grandson of a deceased 90-year-old Texas woman was appointed as independent executor of her estate following a lawsuit filed against the recused Harris County Probate Judge who had disqualified his mother from serving in the position, a press release states.
AUSTIN-- Last week, House Bill 1802 by Rep. Alex Dominguez (D-Brownsville) was voted out of the Committee on Public Health. The bill directs the Health and Human Services Commission in partnership with the Baylor College of Medicine to conduct a study evaluating the efficacy of certain alternative therapies in treating post-traumatic stress disorder.
AUSTIN – Marshall A. Bowen has joined Butler Snow’s Austin, Texas, office and will practice with the firm’s appellate and commercial litigation groups, in addition to governmental relations.
AUSTIN—Today a bipartisan group of special operations veterans, medical experts and advocates came out in support of legislation by State Representative Alex Dominguez (D-Brownsville) to create a first-of-its-kind study on the safety and efficacy of psychedelic therapy to treat some of the most severe medical and mental health conditions facing veterans.
Mary-Olga Lovett, Senior Vice President of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, has joined the Board of Directors of South Texas College of Law (STCL) Houston.
DALLAS – Locke Lord Dallas Partner Frank Stevenson has been elected President of the Western States Bar Conference (WSBC), a forum for the mutual interchange of ideas among bar leaders of the organization’s 15 member states.
BEAUMONT – The Provost Umphrey Law Firm has announced that Matthew Matheny has been made an equity partner. Matheny, who has been with the firm for 18 years, is widely recognized as a top personal injury lawyer in Texas.
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WASHINGTON — Today, Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, responded to the news that the Texas 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Tarrant County Community College v. Sims, that Texas’s state law prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sex also provides protections against discrimination for LGBTQ workers.
