Texas Bar Journal October 2023

Movers and Shakers

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CENTRAL

TODD TINKER is now an attorney with Leger Ketchum & Cohoon in Boerne.

MARY EVELYN MCNAMARA, of Rivers McNamara in Austin, received the Joseph W. McKnight Award from the State Bar of Texas Family Law Section.

ZUBIN KHAMBATTA is now a partner in Holland & Knight in Austin.

GULF

MICAH DORTCH, CHRISTOPHER D. LINDSTROM, and LANCE LIVINGSTON established Dortch Lindstrom Livingston Law Group at 4306 Yoakum Blvd., Ste. 270, Houston 77006.

EMMANUEL ALMARAZ, MARY “KATY” ANDRADE, GREG HENSON, LUCAS MENG, JONATHAN M. STASNEY, and HANNAH STRAWSER are now associates of Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry in Houston.

CADE WHITE is now a partner in McGinnis Lochridge in Houston.

SOLACE SOUTHWICK and JENNIFER JOSEPHSON are now of counsel to and CODY RUTOWSKI is now an associate of Hogan Thompson Schuelke in Houston.

FELICIA HARRIS HOSS, of Harris Hoss in Houston, was appointed co-chair of the Early Dispute Resolution Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution.

GARY HEBERT is now a partner in Squire Patton Boggs in Houston.

JOHN G. GEORGE JR., of George PLLC in Friendswood, was appointed as co-chair of the Texas Real Estate Commission Broker-Lawyer Committee in Austin.

CLARISSA LEVINGSTON is now an attorney with McFarland in Houston.

DUSTIN APPEL is now a senior attorney with and ANDREW W. BELL is now an associate of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings in Houston.

MICHELE Y. SMITH, of MehaffyWeber in Houston, was elected 2023-2024 president of the International Association of Defense Counsel.

MITCH TIRAS is now a partner in King & Spalding in Houston.

NORTH

CHRISTOPHER JOHN is now an associate of McGlinchey Stafford in Dallas. AIMEE GUIDRY SZYGENDA is now of counsel to the firm in its Dallas office.

SCOTT DELANEY and MATTHEW A. DURFEE are now partners in Winston & Strawn in Dallas.

JOHN J. TUCKER is now a partner in Munck Wilson Mandala in Dallas.

MEAGAN LONG is now an associate of Angel Reyes and Associates-Reyes Brown Law in Dallas.

FERDOSE AL-TAIE, of Baker Donelson in Dallas, was elected co-chair of the American Bar Association Litigation Section White Collar and Criminal Litigation Committee.

MICAH DORTCH, CHRISTOPHER D. LINDSTROM, and LANCE LIVINGSTON established Dortch Lindstrom Livingston Law Group at 2911 Turtle Creek Blvd., Ste. 1000, Dallas 75219.

SOUTH

KELLY CHRISTY is now an attorney with Santoyo Wehmeyer in San Antonio.

ELIZABETH H. LAWRENCE is now an attorney with Prichard Young in San Antonio.

OUT OF STATE

STEPHEN E. KAPLAN is now of counsel to Hecht Walker Jordan in Atlanta, Georgia.

CARLTON T. KINCAID is now assistant general counsel to the U.S. Department of Defense in the National Capital Region in Leesburg, Virginia.^TBJ