71 Thompson & Knight Attorneys Honored in The Best Lawyers in America® 2007

TEXAS – Thompson & Knight is pleased to congratulate its 71 attorneys who were selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2007 (Copyright 2006 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.).

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Below is the list, by Firm office, of the 71 Thompson & Knight attorneys included in The Best Lawyers in America® 2007 and the area in which they are honored.

Austin
James C. Morriss III, Environmental

Dallas
G. Luke Ashley, Appellate, Personal Injury Litigation
William L. Banowsky, Commercial Litigation
David M. Bennett, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights
Buford P. Berry, Tax
Michael R Berry, Product Liability Litigation
Dorothy H. Bjorck, Banking
Sam P. Burford, Jr., Corporate
Bennett W. Cervin, Labor and Employment
George C. Chapman, Commercial Litigation
Steven K. Cochran, Corporate Governance and Compliance, Corporate
John R. Cohn, Tax
Paul E. Comeaux, Real Estate
O. Paul Corley, Jr., Banking
Greg W. Curry, Commercial Litigation
Joe Dannenmaier, Corporate
Scott D. Deatherage, Environmental
Andrew B. Derman, Natural Resources
James A. Donohoe, Banking, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights
Barbara Ferguson, Trusts and Estates
Stephen F. Fink, Labor and Employment
Frank Finn, Personal Injury Litigation
Sharon M. Fountain, Employee Benefits
Herbert J. Hammond, Intellectual Property
Thornton Hardie III, Tax
James B. Harris, Environmental
Martha Harris, Real Estate
Craig A. Haynes, Commercial Litigation
M. Lawrence Hicks, Jr., Banking, Real Estate
John M. Holt, Employee Benefits
Gregory Huffman, Antitrust, Commercial Litigation
James L. Irish III, Corporate
Robert Jackson, Banking
Ray T. Khirallah, Real Estate
Jack M. Little, Corporate
John Mackintosh, Commercial Litigation
John H. Martin, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation, Transportation
Timothy R. McCormick, Antitrust, Commercial Litigation, Securities
Paul Michael McCullough, Tax, Trusts and Estates
James W. McKellar, Banking
Mary A. McNulty, Tax
William R. Mureiko, Trusts and Estates
David R. Noteware, Commercial Litigation
John Wharton Rain, Banking, Energy
Rust E. Reid, Trusts and Estates
Peter J. Riley, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights
Harry M. Roberts, Jr., Banking, Real Estate
Clinton B. Shouse, Real Estate
Terry L. Simmons, Trusts and Estates
Steven W. Sloan, Labor and Employment
Bruce S. Sostek, Intellectual Property
Scott P. Stolley, Appellate
Kevin Thomason, Tax
Ben B. West, Banking, Real Estate
R. David Wheat, Tax
Arthur James Wright, Natural Resources
Shelly Youree, Employee Benefits
Jeffrey A. Zlotky, Corporate

Fort Worth
R Gordon Appleman, Employee Benefits, Tax, Trusts and Estates

Houston
J. Michael Bell, Personal Injury Litigation
Gus Block, Real Estate
Stephen M. Block, Real Estate
Timothy R. Brown, Banking, Real Estate
Rhett G. Campbell, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights, Oil and Gas
Marc E. Grossberg, Tax
David W. Jones, Real Estate
Robert S. MacIntyre, Jr., Trusts and Estates
Alfred M. Meyerson, Real Estate
Dallas Robert Parker, Corporate Governance and Compliance, Corporate, Venture Capital
Michael Keith Pierce, Corporate, Natural Resources

New York
Carlos E. Méndez-Peñate, Corporate

About Thompson & Knight
Since 1887, Thompson & Knight LLP has consistently made a positive impact on its clients’ successes. With its practice focused on the energy industry, the Firm has extensive resources in litigation, tax, insolvency, and international energy matters. The Firm has approximately 420 attorneys and offices and alliances in Algiers, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, London, Mexico City, Monterrey, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and Vitória. Thompson & Knight represents companies, government entities, and individuals in local, regional, and national markets around the world.

Contact: Becky S. Jackson, 214.969.1478, becky.jackson@tklaw.com