Brooks Igo

This year, the Dallas Business Journal selected Stewart for a Minority Business Leader Award.

Slifer, the seventh partner at the 20-lawyer Burns Charest, is currently representing Dallas-based Kosmos Energy and Plano-based Stonebriar Commercial Finance in pending litigation.

Sidley Austin’s Dallas team has welcomed back a familiar face.

Almost one-fifth of Baker McKenzie’s partner promotions in North America were in Texas.

Palm, a past president of the Houston Young Lawyers Association, joined the Houston-based firm as senior counsel in 2016.

Seana Willing, who has been the executive director of the Texas Ethics Commission, will replace Linda Acevedo, who is retiring after more than three decades of service to the State Bar, as the top disciplinarian of Texas attorneys.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings announced recently that Houston attorney Katie Harrington has been appointed to Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner’s LGBTQ Advisory Board.

The Dallas-based firm has promoted one attorney from director to shareholder and another from associate to director.

For nearly a decade, Raymond Scott served as vice president and deputy general counsel at SCUSA, one of the largest subprime auto lenders in America.

Abelino “Abel” Reyna, a former two-term district attorney of McLennan County, will lead the outpost in Waco. Houston attorney Arien Ferrell, who has worked in-house at firm client Intuit for close to 15 years, is moving to Patterson + Sheridan in Houston.