Press Release

38 Haynes Boone Lawyers Achieve 2024 Texas Super Lawyer Status

September 17, 2024

Thirty-eight lawyers from six of Haynes and Boone, LLP’s offices and 16 practice groups are featured in the 2024 Texas Super Lawyers directory, including some partners who ranked among the top lawyers in their practice areas.

Published annually by Thomson Reuters, Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations of lawyers in more than 70 practice areas. Of those nominated, only 5 percent of the total lawyers in the jurisdiction can be selected for inclusion.

Partners Charles Beckham Jr., Ben Mesches, Stephen Pezanosky and Mark Trachtenberg were listed among the Top 100 Super Lawyers in Texas.

Mesches and Pezanosky were also listed with Partner Victor Vital and Senior Counsel Nina Cortell among the Top 100 Super Lawyers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The Super Lawyers directory also rated Beckham, Trachtenberg and Senior Counsel Lynne Liberato among the Top 100 Houston Super Lawyers.

This year marks the 10th year that Partner Laura Prather has been included in the Super Lawyers listing. She, Cortell and Liberato, along with Partners Kit Addleman, Stacy Brainin, Karen Denney, Sakina Rasheed Foster, Laura O’Donnell and Susan Wetzel, Senior Counsel Karen Precella and Of Counsel Christina Crozier are all recognized in the Texas Super Lawyers Women’s Edition.

View a full list of the Haynes Boone attorneys recognized in 2024 Texas Super Lawyers below:

Austin

Jeff Civins – Environmental
Mike A. Hatchell – Appellate
Laura Lee Prather – Media/Advertising
Adam Sencenbaugh – Business Litigation

Dallas

Katherine "Kit" Addleman – Criminal Defense: White Collar
Jeffrey M. Becker – Intellectual Property
Stacy L. Brainin – Criminal Defense: White Collar
Ronald W. Breaux – Criminal Defense: White Collar
Eli O. Columbus – Bankruptcy: Business
Nina Cortell – Appellate
Russ Emerson – Intellectual Property Litigation
Sakina Rasheed Foster – Banking
Daniel L. Geyser – Appellate
David H. Harper – Intellectual Property Litigation
Jason N. Jordan – Appellate
Ernest Martin Jr. - Insurance Coverage
David L. McCombs – Intellectual Property
Benjamin L. Mesches – Appellate
J. Frasher Murphy – Bankruptcy: Business
Ian T. Peck – Bankruptcy: Business
Larry Shosid – Business/Corporate
Susan A. Wetzel – Employee Benefits

Fort Worth

Karen C. Denney – Employment Litigation: Defense
Stephen M. Pezanosky – Bankruptcy: Business
Karen S. Precella – Appellate
Thomas J. Williams – Business Litigation

Houston

David H. Ammons – Energy & Resources
Charles A. Beckham Jr. – Bankruptcy: Business
"Buddy" Bernard F. Clark, Jr. - Energy & Resources
Christina F. Crozier – Appellate
Matthew T. Deffebach – Employment & Labor
Patrick L. Hughes – Bankruptcy: Business
Lynne Liberato – Appellate
Michael J. Mazzone – Civil Litigation: Defense
Kent Rutter – Appellate
Mark Trachtenberg – Appellate

San Antonio

Laura E. O’Donnell – Employment Litigation: Defense

The Woodlands

Craig L. Stahl – Energy & Resources