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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.

Former PepsiCo GC Leanne Oliver Joins Phillips Murrah

Oliver achieved many successes during her nearly three decades at PepsiCo and was promoted six times. She successfully defended the multinational food and beverage company against major class-action lawsuits, led strategic corporate acquisitions, and developed innovative employment policies and management training programs. Ex-PepsiCo General Counsel Larry Thompson told The Texas Lawbook in a 2021 profile of Oliver that, “No one really knows PepsiCo as well as Leanne. She has brought enormous value to the company and to the entire legal profession.”

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Haynes Boone’s New Partner from EPA Bolsters Environmental Practice

Clarissa Howley Mills, a former deputy regional counsel for the Environmental Protection Agency, played a key role in one of the largest settlements nationwide relating to the Clean Air Act. She said her experience growing up on a crop farm in Northern Kansas gives her an appreciation for the environment and business related to it.

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Katten Lands PwC Expert to Grow Private Wealth Practice

John Collins III assists prominent families in multiphase estate planning, executing advanced trust and gift strategies, and working through complex tax, wealth transfer and business planning needs across a range of asset mixes, industries and stages of development. 

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Akin Strengthens Special Situations Practice with Familiar Hire

Chad Nichols is returning to Akin after two years at Gibson Dunn. In 2024, Nichols provided financing advice on the divestiture of Arcosa’s steel unit as part of the Dallas company’s $1.2 billion acquisition of Stavola and on the formation of a joint venture in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

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