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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.
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Lisa Alexander is one of 21 recipients of the second annual Presidential Impact Fellows award, which was launched by the university last year to recognize faculty members in the Texas A&M system who “embrace grand challenges, commit to core values and embody the unique ‘can-do’ spirit that distinguished Texas Aggies.”
Holland, who lateraled to Reed Smith from Bracewell, will practice in the firm’s financial industry group.
Woolsey, a SMU Dedman School of Law alum, was most recently at Foley Gardere.
Eight of the newly-minted partners are based in one of the firm’s Texas offices. The other four are in San Francisco, London and Washington, D.C.
Boydston has significant experience with bankruptcy-related matters involving the health care industry.
The white-shoe firm minted eleven attorneys to the partnership in total.
Andrew Newman focuses his practice on complex contract and business tort issues.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently appointed Jackson Walker senior counsel Carmen Symes Dusek to the 51st Judicial District Court.
Houston trial lawyer Robin Gibbs, founder of the prominent litigation boutique Gibbs & Bruns, has recently been the named the recipient of two lifetime achievement awards.
Switzer is on track to serve as the professional association’s president in 2022.
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