Eleven Gardere Attorneys Named to D Magazine's 2015 Best Lawyers in Dallas List

    DALLAS, TX, April 29, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is pleased to announce that 11 Firm attorneys have been selected by their peers to D Magazine's annual listing of the Best Lawyers in Dallas. The complete list of honorees is featured in the publication's May 2015 issue.

Congratulations to the following Gardere attorneys:

Chris Converse, Corporate Law: General
Scott D. Deatherage, Environmental Law
Jane Fergason, Franchise Law
Beverly B. Godbey, Insurance Law
Kevin L. Kelley, Real Estate
Michael H. Newman, Corporate Law: General
Holland N. O'Neil, Bankruptcy & Workout
Alan J. Perkins, Corporate Law: Mergers & Acquisitions
David H. Timmins, Insurance Law
Richard A. Tulli, Corporate Securities/Capital Markets
Peter S. Vogel, Digital Information Law

"As a Firm, we strive to positively impact the legal industry in all of the communities in which we practice," says Gardere Chair Holland N. O'Neil. "We are very grateful that our peers and the editors at D Magazine recognized our attorneys among the best and brightest in Dallas."

Each year, D Magazine conducts an extensive search for the best local legal professionals, inviting nearly 9,000 attorneys in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex to vote for their peers. Finalists are selected by an independent panel of anonymous lawyers and D Magazine's editorial staff. The complete list can be found at http://www.dmagazine.com.

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, an Am Law 200 firm founded in 1909 and one of the Southwest's largest full-service law firms, has offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston and Mexico City. Gardere provides legal services to private and public companies and individuals in the areas of corporate, energy, environmental, financial restructuring and reorganization, financial services, government affairs, hospitality, insurance, intellectual property, international, labor and employment, litigation, private equity, real estate and tax.

For more information, contact Dorothy Tausch at 214.999.4019 or [email protected], or Jennifer Dilworth at 214.999-4718 or [email protected].

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