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Sarah Tudor Glaser is now a seniorassociate of the Welter Law Firm, 919Congress Ave., Ste. 1325, Austin 78701.

Emilio Nicolas and Pamela Madereare now partners in Jackson Walker, 100Congress Ave., Ste. 1100, Austin 78701.

Leslie Wood Dippel is now director ofthe Civil Litigation Division of the TravisCounty Attorney’s Office, 314 W. 11thSt., Ste. 500, Austin 78701.

Benjamin B. Hallmark is now a part-ner in Thompson & Knight, 98 SanJacinto Blvd., Ste. 1900, Austin 78701.

Rick Cofer, previously with the TravisCounty District Attorney’s Office andTravis County Attorney’s Office, hasopened the Law Office of Rick Cofer,404 W. 13th St., Austin 78701.

Darlene F. Ghavimi is now a principalin Conley Rose, 13413 Galleria Cir.,Ste. 100, Austin 78738.

Mary Keeney, Peter Cesaro, and MattPowers, of Graves Dougherty Hearon& Moody in Austin, are now boardmembers of the firm. Natasha Martinis now an advisor to the board.

Rep. Eric L. Johnson, of Orrick, Her-rington & Sutcliffe in Austin, is now amember of the Council on ForeignRelations.

GULFJames A. Schuelke is now a partner inReynolds Frizzell, 1100 Louisiana St.,Ste. 3500, Houston 77002. Harris Wellsand William R. Langley are now asso-ciates of the firm.

Scott McLaughlin and Marlene Williamsare now partners in Eversheds Sutherland,1001 Fannin St., Ste. 3700, Houston77002.

Courtney Ervin is now a partner inHicks Thomas, 700 Louisiana St., Ste.2000, Houston 77002.

James D. Prappas is now director ofKane Russell Coleman Logan, GalleriaTower II, 5051 Westheimer Rd., 10thFl., Houston 77056.

Jamila M. Brinson, Luke J. Gilman,William J. Stowe, and Scott A. Scheppsare now partners in Jackson Walker,1401 McKinney St., Ste. 1900, Houston77010.

David Toney is now partner in chargeof Adams and Reese, LyondellBasellTower, 1221 McKinney St., Ste. 4400,Houston 77010. Chelsea J. Lu is nowan associate of the firm.

W. Mark Lanier, of the Lanier Law Firmin Houston, is now president of theNational Trial Lawyers.

Barrett Reasoner, of Gibbs & Brunsin Houston, was selected chair of theHouston Bar Foundation.

Annapoorni R. Sankaran, previouslywith Greenberg Traurig, is now a partnerin Holland & Knight, 1100 LouisianaSt., Ste. 4300, Houston 77002.

Denise Scofield and Hugh Tanner,both previously with Morgan, Lewis &Bockius, are now partners in Winston& Strawn, 1111 Louisiana St., 25thFl., Houston 77002.

Scott Weiss is now vice president oflegal affairs and regulatory compliancewith QuVa Pharma, 3 Sugar Creek CenterBlvd., Ste. 250, Sugar Land 77478.

Charles C. Foster, of Foster in Houston,was named vice dean of the ConsularCorps of Houston.

Dawn S. Holiday, of Steptoe & Johnsonin The Woodlands, was named a fellow ofthe Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.

Timothy E. Gehl, previously with ShellOil Company, is now general counselto Gulf Coast Aviation, 7930 AirportBlvd., Hangar 1, Houston 77061.

CENTRAL

Edward McHorse, Cliff Ernst, ClarkLutz, Martin Lutz, Doug Jones, andRussell Booth are now partners inMcGinnis Lochridge & Kilgore, 600Congress Ave., Ste. 2100, Austin 78701.Alison Lenner and Shana McGirl arenow associates of and Ali Gallagher isnow of counsel to the firm.

Colette Billings, Amanda Frizzelle,William L. Sims, Azadeh Zarrabi, KimIsham, Leah Stein, Daphne Wilson,and Summer Benford are now staffattorneys with Texas Legal ServicesCenter, 2101 S. I-35, Ste. 300, Austin78741. Crystal Leff-Pinon is nowmanaging attorney for the center’sChild Protective Services program andWayne Krause Yang is managingattorney for the program’s newly estab-lished Impact Litigation project.

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Charles H. Wilson, previously withCozen O’Connor, is now a shareholderin Littler Mendelson, 1301 McKinneySt., Ste. 1900, Houston 77010.

Puja Detjen is now a partner in andJames Sinton is now an associate of Pat-terson + Sheridan, 24 Greenway Plaza,Ste. 1600, Houston 77046. Jessie D. Her-rera Jr., also with the firm, was selected asa fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.

John T. Woodruff, of Polsinelli inHouston, was selected as a fellow ofthe Texas Bar Foundation.

Cindy Dinh, previously with the U.S.District Court for the Southern Dis-trict of Texas, is now an associate ofSusman Godfrey, 1000 Louisiana St.,Ste. 5100, Houston 77002.

NORTH

Charles T. Haag, previously withJones Day, is now a partner in Winston& Strawn, 2501 N. Harwood St., 17thFl., Dallas 75201.

Kate L. Schneider is now an associateof and T. Chase Garrett is now a partnerin Scheef & Stone, 2600 Network Blvd.,Ste. 400, Frisco 75034. James Griffin,previously with Jackson Walker, is now apartner in the firm’s Dallas office, 500 N.Akard St., Ste. 2700, 75201.

Chad J. Ray is now a senior associate ofMunck Wilson Mandala, 600 BannerPlace Tower, 12770 Coit Rd., Dallas75251. Nichole M. Plagens, previouslywith Fanning Harper Martinson Brandt &Kutchin, is now an associate of the firm.

R. Scott Seifert was elected presidentof Hiersche, Hayward, Drakeley &Urbach, 15303 Dallas Pkwy., Ste. 700,Addison 75001.

Jesse J. Lotspeich, previously with theLaw Office of James M. Stanley, is now apartner in Barnett Howard & Williams,209 W. Eighth St., Fort Worth 76102.

Adam Bell is now an associate of BaileyBrauer, Campbell Centre I, 8350 N. Cen-tral Expy., Ste. 206, Dallas 75206.

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Cole Bredthauer and Conrad Hesterare now partners in Thompson & Knight,801 Cherry St., Unit #1, Burnett Plaza,Ste. 1600, Fort Worth 76102. NathanD. Meredith and Michelle V. Parkerare now partners in the firm’s Dallasoffice, One Arts Plaza, 1722 Routh St.,Ste. 1500, 75201.

Catherine Fancher is now vice presidentof and in-house counsel to Carlisle Title,4835 LBJ Fwy., Ste. 700, Dallas 75244.

Marc Cabrera, of Locke Lord in Dal-las, was selected as a fellow of theLeadership Council on Legal Diversity.

Joshua Skora is now a partner inK&L Gates, 1717 Main St., Ste. 2800,Dallas 75201.

Mary Durbin,previously with the HumanRights Initiative of North Texas, is now anassociate of the Verdin Law Firm, 900 Jack-son St., Ste. 535, Dallas 75202.

Pete Hyndman is now a partner inJackson Walker, 2323 Ross Ave., Ste.600, Dallas 75201. Len A. Wade isnow a partner in the firm’s Fort Worthoffice, 777 Main St., Ste. 2100, 76102.

Koy R. Killen and Clinton W. Dennishave formed Killen & Dennis, 104 S.Main St., Burleson 76028.

Laura L. Stapleton is now senior coun-sel to Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins,Crouch & Ungerman, 901 Main St.,Ste. 3700, Dallas 75202. Jeffrey M.Glassman and Jason A. Hendrix arenow associates of the firm. Charles J.Allen, also with the firm, is now certifiedin estate planning and probate law bythe Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

David Monk, of RealPage in Richardson,was named General Counsel of theYear for a mid-sized law department fromthe Association of Corporate CounselDFW Chapter and the Texas Lawbook.

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Keith D. Becker has relocated hisfamily law practice to 290 S. PrestonRd., Ste. 100, Prosper 75078.

Justin V. Sumner is now a partner inSumner, Schick & Pace, 3811 TurtleCreek Blvd., Ste. 600, Dallas 75219.

Jamie T. Katzen is now senior coun-sel to Gray Reed & McGraw, 1601 ElmSt., Ste. 4600, Dallas 75201.

Michele Wong Krause, of the WongKrause Law Firm in Dallas, was electedto the American Bar AssociationBoard of Governors.

Sarah Q. Wirskye, previously withMeadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch& Ungerman, is now the managing share-holder in the Wirskye Law Firm, 5220Spring Valley Rd., Ste. 200, Dallas 75254.

SOUTH

Peter Sakai, judge of the 225th Dis-trict Court in San Antonio, was electedlocal administrative judge of the districtcourts for a two-year term. Sakai wasalso the 2017 distinguished commence-ment speaker at St. Philip’s College.

George E. Hinchey is now a partnerin Jackson Walker, 112 E. Pecan St.,Ste. 2400, San Antonio 78205.

Adam Rabinowitz is now a shareholderin Hornberger Fuller & Garza, 7373 Broad-way St., Ste. 300, San Antonio 78209.

Bruce E. Toppin III is now a sharehol-der in Langley & Banack, 745 E. Mulbe-rry Ave., Ste. 900, San Antonio 78212.

OUT OF STATE

Bradley C. West, of the West LawFirm in Shawnee, Oklahoma, wasnamed president of the AmericanBoard of Trial Advocates OklahomaChapter.

Mark S. Harris is now the managingpartner in Linebarger Goggan Blair &Sampson, 1600 John F. Kennedy Blvd.,4 Penn Center, Ste. 910, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania 19103. TBJ

John Podvin, of Shapiro Bieging BarberOtteson in Dallas, was elected co-chairof the North Texas Chapter of the Asso-ciation of Certified Anti-Money Laun-dering Specialists Board of Directors.

David C. Schulte is now a partner inHolland & Knight, 200 Crescent Ct.,Ste. 1600, Dallas 75201.

Erwin A. Nepomuceno and DavidR. Reeder, partners in Manning &Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester, will leadthe firm’s newly opened Dallas office,1717 McKinney Ave., Ste. 700, 75202.

Beverly Godbey, previously with GardereWynne Sewell, is now a principal in AmyStewart Law, Mockingbird Station, 5307 E.Mockingbird Ln., Ste. 425, Dallas 75206.

Nancy C. LeGros, previously withCHRISTUS Health, is now a partnerin Bracewell, 1445 Ross Ave., Ste.3800, Dallas 75202.

Bill Wooley, previously with Neel,Hooper & Banes, is now corporatecounsel to M1 Support Services, 300N. Elm St., Ste. 101, Denton 76201.

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