Mike Boone Named to Texas Business Hall of Fame

Legendary Dallas corporate lawyer Mike Boone, co-founder of Haynes Boone, has been named as one of six named to the 2024 class of inductees to the Texas Business Hall of Fame, where he joins the ranks of such Texas business luminaries as H.L. Hunt, T. Boone Pickens, Mark Cuban, Stanley Marcus and Red McCombs.

Boone and his mentor, Richard Haynes, co-founded the firm as a two-lawyer operation in 1970, growing it to more than 700 lawyers spread across 19 offices in four countries. He earned his J.D. at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in 1967, alongside an undergraduate degree in accounting.