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By Brooks Igo
Staff Writer for The Texas Lawbook
(January 8)—Ten lawyers from Haynes and Boone’s Texas offices are among the firm’s 12 newly promoted partners. They are in the Dallas, Houston and Richardson offices.
Seven are in the Dallas office. They are Jason Bloom, Ryan Cox, Alan Herda, Brent Huddleston, Chris Rogers, Tony Soards and Jennifer Wisinski.
Bloom, a SMU Dedman School of Law graduate, has represented clients in business and intellectual property disputes including media law and the First Amendment, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, Internet publications, domain acquisition and ownership, software and source code and enforcement of non-competition agreements.
Cox, also a SMU Dedman School of Law graduate, focuses his practice on the representation of publicly traded and privately held companies, public and private equity transactions, SEC reporting and compliance and corporate governance.
Herda, a Texas Wesleyan University School of Law graduate, focuses his practice on intellectual property, including patent and design law.
Huddleston, another SMU Dedman School of Law graduate, leads the firm’s immigration practice in Dallas. He represents clients in establishing company policies regarding hiring procedures, I-9 compliance, employment of foreign nationals and national origin discrimination issues.
Rogers, a Duke University School of Law graduate, focuses his practice on controversies involving actual or threatened government criminal enforcement and related civil litigation.
Soards, an Ohio State University Moritz College of Law graduate, represents both private and publicly held interests in real estate acquisitions, dispositions, development and financing of both single-site and multiple assets portfolios.
Wisinski, an University of Texas School of Law graduate, represents clients on issues relating to public and private equity and debt offerings, periodic SEC filings, high-yield debt and equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions involving both public and private companies, antitakeover matters and filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976.
Two of the newly promoted partners, John Harper and Liz Klingensmith, are in the firm’s Houston office.
Harper, a graduate of SMU’s Dedman School of Law, represents employers in labor relations and employment matters.
Klingensmith, a graduate of the University of Houston Law Center, focuses her litigation practice on disputes arising from oil and gas projects.
One, Thomas Kelton, is in the firm’s Richardson office.
Kelton, a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, focuses his practice on intellectual property matters, with a special emphasis on Patent Office invalidation procedures, such as reexamination and Inter Partes Review.
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