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By Brooks Igo
(July 23) – Three former Baker Botts attorneys in Houston with significant firm leadership experience recently moved to Hogan Lovells.
Maria Boyce, Jennifer Smith and Cristina Rodriguez join the London- and Washington, D.C.-based firm as partners in its litigation and arbitration practice group.
Boyce, who advises clients in the energy and technology sectors on complex litigation and intellectual property litigation matters, served three terms on Baker Botts’ executive committee. She also previously served as the partner-in-charge of the Houston office and head of the office’s litigation department.
Focusing her practice on international arbitration and international dispute resolution, Smith is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales. She helped launch Baker Botts’ London office, where she spent eight years of her career. Additionally, Smith served on her former firm’s executive committee and as deputy chair of the firm-wide litigation department for seven years.
Rodriguez focuses her practice on professional liability, employment, commercial and securities litigation. She served as hiring partner of Baker Botts’ Houston office, head of the professional liability practice group and was a founding member of its diversity committee.
“Not only are Maria, Jennifer, and Cristina first chair trial lawyers at the vanguard of dispute resolution in the 21st century, they are leaders in the Houston community,” Bruce Oakley, managing partner of Hogan Lovells’ Houston office.
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