AUSTIN, TEXAS (December 2, 2008) – A litigation team from McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P. recently won a jury award for its clients Charles G. Hooks, III et. al., royalty owners under three oil and gas leases in Jefferson and Hardin counties, Texas. The eight-day trial in Jefferson County District… Read more
AUSTIN, TEXAS (September 8, 2008) – McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P. partner Phillip Schmandt has been elected chair of the City of Austin’s Electric Utility Commission. Schmandt was re-appointed to the Commission by Mayor Will Wynn in August 2008 and has served on the Commission since March 2006. In August… Read more
AUSTIN, TEXAS (June 30, 2008) – McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore today announced wins in two cases on appeal, one before the Supreme Court of Texas and a second before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The Texas Supreme Court decision in Guitar vs. Hudspeth County Underwater Conservation… Read more
AUSTIN, TEXAS (March 31, 2008) – Texas-based law firm McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore L.L.P. today announced that preeminent litigator Larry F. York has joined the firm in its Austin headquarters. Mr. York assumes the title Of Counsel. A trial lawyer for 44 years, York joins McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore’s commercial… Read more
AUSTIN, TEXAS (March 13, 2008) – Best Lawyers has named ten attorneys with McGinnis, Lochridge& Kilgore, L.L.P. to its 2008 list of Best Lawyers. The 14th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2008) is based on more than two million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. Attorneys from… Read more
AUSTIN, TEXAS (February 26, 2008) – McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P. today announced it is hosting more than 100 attorneys from 46 states and eight countries at the midwinter conference of the State Capital Global Law Firm Group beginning February 28 in Austin. The State Capital Global Law Firm Group… Read more
AUSTIN, TEXAS (September 17, 2007) – Fifteen attorneys at McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P. have been named to the 2007 Texas Super Lawyers list, a Thomson Reuters service. The full list will be published in the October 2007 issue of Texas Monthly. The McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore attorneys named to the 2007 Texas… Read more
HOUSTON, TEXAS (June 30, 2007) – Steve Watkins, a partner at McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore L.L.P., has been elected to the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) as a member of the Houston Chapter. Membership is granted exclusively to attorneys nominated on the basis of personal character, honorable reputation and… Read more
AUSTIN, TEXAS (May 21, 2007) – Joe Lea, a partner at McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, has been elected to the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) as a member of the Austin Chapter. Membership is granted exclusively to attorneys nominated on the basis of personal character, honorable reputation and proficiency… Read more
AUSTIN, TEXAS (May 8, 2007) – Bruce M. Kramer, one of the Nation’s preeminent oil, gas, energy and land-use legal scholars and long-time professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, has joined the Texas-based law firm McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P. Kramer is the co-author of several books that… Read more
AUSTIN, TEXAS (March 19, 2007) – McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P. today announced that nine of its accomplished young attorneys in its Austin and Houston offices have been named to the 2007 Texas Rising Stars list, a Thomas Reuters service. This list of the state’s “top up-and-coming attorneys” will be published in… Read more