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More than a dozen years ago, Kimberly Phillips, now GC of litigation at Shell Oil, told Dawn Estes she needed to create her own legal practice. Today, Estes Thorne & Carr is one of the largest women-owned corporate law firms in Texas. How did Estes build such a successful firm in a male-dominated legal world? The Texas Lawbook has the story.
“I don’t know when Dawn sleeps,” Golds Gym GC Shelby Angel said. “She’s extremely responsive and attentive to client needs.”
It is no surprise that the pandemic touched everything. But bond counsel and bond issuers found novel ways to beat the pandemic. Nushin Huq describes the problems, the solutions and the Top 10 bond deals of 2020.
Maybe other kinds of legal work lagged in 2020, but the municipal bond market in Texas prospered as bond entities took advantage of favorable market conditions to push new projects or refinance old ones. The Lawbook’s Nushin Huq has the names of the firms that benefitted from a very good, very strange year.
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