SKV Names Hector Chavez Partner
Chavez focuses his practice on patent litigation, trade secrets, commercial disputes, oil and gas disputes, civil rights and white collar defense.
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Brooks Igo is the publisher at The Texas Lawbook and leads lateral move coverage.
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.
Chavez focuses his practice on patent litigation, trade secrets, commercial disputes, oil and gas disputes, civil rights and white collar defense.
The Dallas-based firm named new partners in Austin, Dallas, Denver, Houston, New York and Richardson.
Norton Rose Fulbright minted 46 new partners globally.
The prominent commercial litigation firm minted new principals from each of its three Texas offices.
Anderson co-chairs the firm’s corporate and securities department and leads its financial institutions practice.
Janna King will practice in the cloud-based law firm’s health and pharmacy group.
Matthew Grunert, who received his law degree from SMU, lateraled over from Hunton Andrews Kurth.

Shearman & Sterling officially announced this week that it has bolstered its capital markets practice in Houston with a team of four attorneys from Haynes and Boone led by partners
Of the six newly-promoted Texans, half are based in Dallas and the other half office at the firm’s Houston headquarters.
Houston is home to three of the newly-promoted Texans, while one is based in Dallas. All four have corporate transactional practices.
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