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Responding to the growing intellectual property and trademark needs of U.S. and foreign clients, Haynes and Boone, LLP has added three experienced intellectual property partners – two in Washington, D.C. and one based in California who also practices in Washington, D.C.
The capabilities of the new partners -
Philip G. Hampton II,
Kimberley Chen Nobles and
Bradley J. Olson - complement the nationally recognized talents of more than 50 IP litigation practitioners currently handling IP enforcement and defense in patent litigation as well as trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation and arbitration.

FORT WORTH – Karen Denney, a partner in the
Labor and Employment Practice Group at Haynes and Boone, LLP, has been named the 2012 Outstanding Young Lawyer of Texas by the Texas Young Lawyers Association (TYLA).
The prestigious honor was given for her commitment to and leadership in pro bono work, as well as for her service to the local bar and involvement in the community. Denney received word of the Texas award at the Tarrant County Bar Association Law Day Dinner, where she was honored as 2012 Outstanding Young Lawyer of Tarrant County by the Fort Worth-Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association.

Appeals court judges in Texas are increasingly hostile to jury verdicts in civil cases, especially when the jurors rule in favor of plaintiffs, according to a new Haynes and Boone, LLP study featured by the
Dallas Morning News and
Texas Lawbook.
The report - authored by Houston partners
Lynne Liberato and
Kent Rutter - examined a full year of decisions in 2010-2011 by the state’s 14 courts of appeals. It found that the judges on those courts reverse more than one-third of all civil jury verdicts and that they are four to six times more likely to overturn jury verdicts that favor plaintiffs than verdicts favoring defendants.
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Attorneys in the New York office of Haynes and Boone, LLP have advised SL Green Realty Corp. in a 1.6 million-square-foot lease to Viacom International at 1515 Broadway, extending and expanding Viacom’s presence in the Times Square tower through 2031.
It was the second record-setting leasing deal for the firm since April 16. The Viacom transaction, handled by Partner Noah Shapiro and Of Counsel Russ Rabinovich, is believed to be the largest-ever New York City office lease other than a few sale-leaseback arrangements, according to SL Green.

Greta Cowart, a partner focusing on employee benefits and executive compensation, has been awarded a Burton Award for Legal Achievement for an article she authored for BNA Insights.
Cowart’s piece, “Standing at the Crossroads of ERISA and the Railway Labor Act: Choosing the Right Track and Avoiding Collateral Damage,” was one of 35 best law firm articles of 2012 as judged by the awards program in association with the Library of Congress.
(To read the full article, click here.)
Nina Cortell, Haynes and Boone, LLP appellate partner and a founding member of the Center for Women in Law at the University of Texas School of Law, has been named recipient of the law school alumni association’s Distinguished Alumnus Award for Community Service.
Established by the Alumni Association in 1988, the award honors an outstanding graduate who brings conspicuous credit to the legal profession by exemplary service. Cortell was honored in ceremonies held recently in Austin.

Andrew Weissman, the
Energy Business Watch editor-in-chief and publisher who for more than 30 years as an attorney and leading analyst has played a key role in transforming federal and state energy and environmental policy, has moved to Haynes and Boone, LLP.
Serving as the firm’s senior energy advisor out of its Washington, D.C. office, Weissman’s unparalleled research will enable the firm to get out in front of rapid and radical changes in the energy sector, offering clients comprehensive services at the nexus of law and economics, said
Buddy Clark, head of the energy practice.