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“Debt offerings of public securities happen when the market is favorable.  As a result, her schedule was heavy and hard to predict.  I had to learn to be an independent person and to do things on my own.”

“Playing a trivia game consisting of evidence objections is probably not a common thing to do with a 9- and 11-year-old.  But for my sister and me, who were growing up just as my mother was growing into a career as a civil trial lawyer, that is one of the ways we would spend our time during our car trips. Whether to Cedar Creek Lake to visit my grandparents or running errands around town, we were talking law.”

“In our house growing up, productive was the mantra, as in: ‘Everyone must be productive and contribute.’ As a single mom, this was as much about necessity as it was about principle: if you didn’t cook dinner when it was your turn, there was no dinner.”  

“I prosecuted Goldilocks and prevailed. The jury found Goldilocks guilty; her punishment was to fix baby bear’s chair, make porridge for the bears, and six months of no TV.”

The love of law is a bit of a family tradition. Her father had wanted to be a lawyer, but circumstances kept him from pursuing that dream. So when my mother headed to Baylor as an undergraduate, he kept encouraging her to at least give law school a try. 

A group of lawyers from Andrews Kurth Kenyon and Bracewell said Wednesday that they handled Tokyo Gas America’s first investment in a U.S. upstream company.

A group of Houston-based lawyers from Latham and V&E this week closed an $875 million initial public offering for Denver-based Antero Midstream GP LP, which owns the general partner of Antero Midstream Partners LP. The company’s assets are located in the West Virginia area of the Marcellus Shale and the Ohio area of the Utica Shale.

A group of Houston-based lawyers from Latham and V&E this week closed an $875 million initial public offering for Denver-based Antero Midstream GP LP, which owns the general partner of Antero Midstream Partners LP. The company’s assets are located in the West Virginia area of the Marcellus Shale and the Ohio area of the Utica Shale.

Houston lawyers at Bracewell, Baker Botts and Latham & Watkins worked on The Netherlands-based VTTI B.V.’s $481 million all-cash acquisition of its limited partnership, VTTI Energy Partners LP. The transaction takes London-based VTTI Energy Partners private.