GARDERE PARTNERS LISTED AMONG CHAMBER USA'S TOP BUSINESS LAWYERS

June 24, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News
DALLAS/HOUSTON – For the fourth consecutive year, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP has been recognized as one of the top Texas law firms in Chambers USA’s annual listing of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.” Additionally, 20 of the firm’s partners were recognized as being among the best in their fields.

Chambers USA, a guide published annually by London-based Chambers & Partners, recognizes the top business law firms and leading individual attorneys in the United States. The firms and attorneys are selected for the merit-based listing based upon interviews by more than 100 researchers with more than 4,500 private attorneys and in-house counsel across the United States.

“We are very honored to receive this recognition,” says Gardere Managing Partner Steve Good. “However, as a full service firm, with outstanding attorneys involved in our many practice areas, our overriding focus is not to earn awards and accolades, but rather the respect of our peers and the trust of our clients.”

Gardere was ranked among Texas’ top business law firms in the fields of Antitrust, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Tax and Technology & IT Outsourcing. The firm also received national recognition in the field of Government: Government Contracts.

Additionally, a select number of individual attorneys also received recognition in specific practice areas. Firm partners recognized among the top in their fields of expertise include:

Antitrust – Mark Bayer, Curtis Frisbie Jr., Randy Gordon
Bankruptcy/Restructuring – Holland O’Neil, Richard Roberson, Deirdre Ruckman
Corporate/M&A – Larry Schoenbrun
Labor & Employment – Neil Martin
Environment – Frances Phillips
Environment: Litigation – Richard Faulk
Government: Government Contracts – Marshall Doke Jr.
Insurance – James Cooper, John Pearson
Intellectual Property – Kenneth Glaser
Real Estate – Kevin Kelley
Tax – Allen Craig III
Tax: Litigation – Val Albright, Cym Lowell
Technology: Corporate & Commercial – Frank Putman
Technology & IT Outsourcing – Peter Vogel
Chambers & Partners is the publisher of Commercial Lawyer magazine, the United Kingdom’s leading monthly legal publication. The company also publishes several merit-based guides to leading lawyers.

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, an AmLaw 200 firm, was founded in 1909 and is one of the Southwest’s largest full-service law firms. With offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston and Mexico City, Gardere provides legal services to private and public companies and individuals in areas of energy, litigation, corporate, tax, environmental, labor and employment, intellectual property and financial services.