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Energy Transfer’s Ali Henderson is a ‘Trial Warrior’

Most lawyers go a lifetime without winning a nine-digit litigation. Energy Transfer Assistant GC Ali Henderson won two in 2025. She co-led a complex, high-stakes trial in North Dakota that culminated in a historic $667 million jury verdict for the midstream energy giant. And she co-led the defense of a $200 million lawsuit against her company for negligence and trespass.

The Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook are awarding Henderson, Energy Transfer and the lawyers at Yetter Coleman and Gibson Dunn with the 2026 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for Business Litigation of the Year. The Business Litigation award is one of the few that also recognizes the role of outside counsel in court victories.

Siemens Energy GC Denise Hansen has ‘Consistently Overcome Adversity and Persevered’

Denise Hansen has dealt with the consequences from constantly evolving tariffs; the continuous and massive federal regulatory changes in the energy sector, including the dialing back of wind-industry tax credits; the executive orders regarding diversity and inclusion; the emergence and employment of artificial intelligence; the successful licensing necessary to do potential work in Venezuela; and the extraordinary growth that SEI has experienced.

The Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook are honoring Hansen with the 2026 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for General Counsel of the Year for a Large Legal Department.

Premium Subscriber Q&A: Ali Henderson

In this Q&A, Ali Henderson dispels myths about going in-house and details what she looks for when hiring outside counsel. Texas Lawbook: What advice do you give lawyers considering going

Texas Capital’s Dan Hoverman: The Finance Executive Who Thinks Like a Lawyer

Dan Hoverman built his career by understanding the law and succeeding in high finance, but the Texas Capital executive insists it was never the product of a master plan so much as a habit of following the right mentors at the right moments.

The Texas Lawbook recently sat down with the Kirkland alum to discuss his unique career path, his sports career, the dealmaking environment in Texas and more.

Dallas SALT Partners, Senior Counsel Lateral to Holland & Knight 

Sam Megally and Will LeDoux, state and local tax partners, and Cindy Ohlenforst, senior counsel, have joined Holland & Knight in Dallas from K&L Gates. The three joined the firm’s tax, executive compensation and benefits practice group and will focus their practices on Texas and multistate tax matters.

P.S. — Lawmakers Examine Rural Attorney Shortage, Susman Godfrey Increases Diversity Prize, HisBA Sets Fundraising Record

In this edition of P.S., we cover a Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee hearing on how the state’s law schools can help address a lawyer shortage in rural parts of Texas. Lawmakers heard from Texas A&M University School of Law Dean Robert Ahdieh and SMU Dedman School of Law Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center Executive Director Pamela Metzger, among others, about how the legislature, bar and universities can work together to ease the gap.

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