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cuses her practice on representing corporate and individual clients in liti- gation in state and federal courts in- volving commercial disputes, breach of contract actions, breach of duciary duty and related claims, real estate matters, and employment matters.
nonpro t charities that serve the di- verse North Texas region and the Houston area in arts and culture, edu- cation, family violence, children, health and legal aid.
e Dallas Bar Association (DBA) received a 2018 American Bar Associ- ation Partnership Award. e ABA standing committee on Bar activities and services recognized the DBA for its outstanding programming and re- lated work to the DBA WE LEAD pro- gram
Vynessa Nemunaitis
Vynessa Nemunaitis, a Dallas-based associate at Weil, Gotshal & Mang- es LLP, has been select- ed by the Business Council for the Arts for its 2018-19 Leadership
Arts Institute. e BCA is a nonpro t organization founded in 1988 by local businesses committed to expanding business support for and involvement in arts and cultural organizations.
Dallas Women’s Foundation has named A. Shonn Brown as its chair elect. Brown, a partner with Lynn Pink- er Cox & Hurst, has been a member of the foun- dation board since 2015, co-chaired the annual luncheon in 2017 and helped found e Village Giving Cir- cle at Dallas Women’s Foundation. She will succeed current board chair Car-
en K. Lock July 1, 2019.
Robert Martin and
Heather King
KoonsFuller Manag- ing Shareholder Heath- er King has been pre- sented the prestigious Sam Emison Award by the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists
Brackett & Ellis P.C. is pleased to announce the recent addition of Jef- frey M. Tillman to the rm as an associate. Tillman’s practice pri- marily consists of gen-
A. Shonn Brown
at the annual TexasBarCLE Advanced Family Law conference in San Anto- nio. e Sam Emison Award is earned in recognition of having a signi cant impact on the practice of family law.
Amy M. Stewart, founding partner of Stewart Bradbury PLLC, was recently appointed as 2018-19 Division V. director for the ABA’s section of litigation. In
Je rey M. Tillman
Robert Martin
Heather McKinney
her new role, she will oversee the work of the substantive litigation subcom- mittees, including business torts and unfair competition, commercial litiga- tion, employment and labor law, prod- ucts liability, mass torts, bankruptcy, securities litigation.
Heather McKinney have joined international law rm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as Dallas- based associates in the rm’s corporate depart- ment. Prior to joining Weil, Martin was an as- sociate in the corporate practice of another in- ternational law rm, where he represented institutional, private eq-
Amy M. Stewart
eral litigation, commercial litigation, and insurance defense.
International law rm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced that Matthew “Matt” DeAr- man has joined the rm’s nance and re-
Matthew“Matt”DeArman structuring group in Dallas as a partner. He joins Dorsey from Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr P.C., where he was a shareholder in the Dal- las o ce.
Meadows Collier is a proud sponsor of e Rider’s Cup of Lone Star Park 2018. is golf tournament bene ts the Race Track Chaplaincy of Texas.
uity and strategic clients in equity and debt transactions. McKinney joins the rm a er founding and leading her own private legal practice in Dallas, where she counseled clients on entity formation and related corporate gov-
Jason S. Nardiello
Jason S. Nardiello has joined Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP as a partner in its intellectual prop- erty practice. Previously with Barclay Damon LLP in Syracuse, New
Paul Leslie has re- joined Dallas-based Es- tes orne & Carr PLLC as a partner focused on health care regulatory compliance and litiga- tion. He rejoins the rm
York, where he was a partner and head of that rm’s trademark and copyright practice, Nardiello will focus on litiga- tion.
KoonsFuller Managing Shareholder and CEO Ike Vanden Eykel announced that to commemorate the rm’s rst 40 years of success, KoonsFuller has formed a charitable foundation called the KoonsFuller Family Law Founda- tion. rough the KoonsFuller Family Law Foundation, the rm will support
Paul Leslie
Anneke Cronje
ernance matters, among other experience.
Anneke Cronje joins Winstead’s business liti- gation practice group as an associate in the Fort Worth o ce. Cronje fo-
from Parkland Health & Hospital Sys- tem where he served as executive vice president and general counsel for eight years.
Glenn D. West and Benton Lewis, Dallas-based partners at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, have been named win- ners of this year’s Texas Lawyer Profes-
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