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Brooks Igo

Brooks Igo is the publisher at The Texas Lawbook and covers lateral moves.

Brooks Igo

Brooks Igo is the publisher of The Texas Lawbook. He graduated from SMU, where he studied business and journalism. Two months after the launch of The Lawbook and the beginning of his last semester at SMU, Brooks interned with Mark, Sally and The Lawbook. After joining the team full-time, he has worked to build relationships in the Texas legal community and help grow the publication’s readership to more than 13,000 subscribers.

Brooks is on the steering committee for the Dallas chapter of the Legal Marketing Association’s Southwest Region; serves on the boards of The Well Community and the Salvation Army Oak Cliff Corps; and is a supporter of Advocates for Community Transformation (Act).

He, his wife Ashley, daughter June, and son Oliver live in Oak Cliff with their pack of rescue dogs and pig.

You can reach Brooks at brooks.igo@texaslawbook.net or 214-384-4080.

Premium Subscriber Spotlight: Weil, Gotshal & Manges

A Dallas-led team at Weil, working with the ACLU of Texas, has prosecuted major federal court litigation aimed at freeing hundreds of medically vulnerable immigrant detainees from an ICE civil detention facility in Conroe, Texas. To date, the Weil/ACLU team has obtained release of 15 medically vulnerable detainees through varying forms of individualized relief. The case is still pending and now awaits class certification.

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AUSA for SDNY Moves to Dallas to Join Bradley

Elisha J. Kobre developed significant experience investigating securities and commodities fraud and cybercrime over the course of his 11 years as an assistant U.S. attorney with the Southern District of New York.

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Tad Davidson, co-leader of Hunton AK's bankruptcy and restructuring practice, was among the most in-demand bankruptcy attorneys last year, advising Hi-Crush, Lonestar Resources, Remora Petroleum, Sable Permian Resources and Superior Energy Services in those companies' Chapter 11s. The firm also stepped up on the pro bono side. Led by Dallas associate Fawaz Bham, Hunton AK partnered with the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program to help launch the organization's first virtual legal aid intake clinic.

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Premium Subscriber Spotlight: Dykema

Dykema litigators in Texas secured a significant victory in one of the first appellate oral arguments conducted via Zoom before the Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio. And the firm's Texas-based Dental Service Organization's practice had a big year, closing nearly 50 deals in the fourth quarter alone.

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