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Winston’s rise in Texas this year has been meteoric. Opening in Dallas, the firm grew its Texas (TX) footprint significantly—from 42 to 90+ attorneys—and enhanced its TX platform substantially, adding complementary services to its award-winning Houston platform. Media declared Winston’s move “seismic” and “the equivalent of starting…with an Olympic all-star team.”
The firm’s TX-based private equity, M&A, capital markets, and securities teams closed billions of dollars in deals for clients, while our REIT team—led by nationally recognized REIT lawyer Bryan Goolsby—has advised equity REITs across many asset classes. In 2017, Winston also attracted three highly respected TX real estate lawyers, including Billie Ellis, a Texas Lawbook “Lion of the Texas Bar.”
Our TX Commercial Litigation practice is led in Dallas by Tom Melsheimer—“one of the most sought after trial lawyers in the country” (American Lawyer), and much-lauded litigator Steve Stodghill, and in Houston by distinguished trial lawyer Paula Hinton, whose recent trial win Texas Lawbook called “one of the greatest defense victories in Texas history,” senior bankruptcy litigator Melanie Gray, and experienced litigators Casey Berger and John Strasburger.
Top companies continue to turn to our TX intellectual property team—led by Houston partners John Keville, Dean Lechtenberger, and Eric Schilichter and Dallas partners Melsheimer, Natalie Arbaugh, and Tom Walsh—for their most significant matters. Former A.U.S.A. and computer forensics expert Sheryl Falk, who leads our TX Cybercrime/Data Security/Privacy practice, recently helped secure a $24.5M Houston federal jury verdict by recovering key evidence and uncovering opposing party’s destruction of evidence.
Winston’s premier TX White-Collar practice, anchored by Matthew Orwig (former E.D.Tex. U.S. Attorney), Melsheimer, and Shawn Cleveland, focuses on regulatory enforcement, criminal, and investigation matters for companies, boards, and individuals. Orwig and Basheer Ghorayeb have government security clearance to handle highly sensitive investigations—a rare TX credential.
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