AT&T Attorney Vicki Blanton Wins Award from National Bar Association Women Lawyers’ Division
Blanton is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Corporate Counsel Achievement Award for the National Bar Association (NBA) Women Lawyers’ Division.
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Blanton is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Corporate Counsel Achievement Award for the National Bar Association (NBA) Women Lawyers’ Division.
Michael Toth, who is also a current judicial candidate for the state’s Third Court of Appeals, will be a special counsel in Dykema Cox Smith's business litigation group.
Summers represents clients in corporate and complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions.
Three partners from Foley Gardere have lateraled to Bradley Arant Boult Cummings in Houston. The energy litigation trio held various leadership positions at Gardere.
Robert Castle and Jamie Welton were previously with Lackey Hershman in Dallas, which was acquired by the Midwest law firm Stinson Leonard Street in May.
Connop has been named chair-elect of the Iowa State University Alumni Association Board of Directors.
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Scott Ellis and Tanya Goins have lateraled over from Winstead and Holland & Knight, respectively.
Carrie Winkler, who was a real estate associate at V&E from 1998 to 2004, has returned to the firm as counsel from Hunton Andrews Kurth.
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