Texas Bar Journal • October 2026

Movers and Shakers

Central

PAUL J. POLANSKY is now of counsel to Polsinelli in Dallas.

KELSEY SHOFNER is now a partner in Hilgers in Dallas.

Dickinson Wright in Austin. MONICA M. JACOBS and DIANA L. NICHOLS are now partners in Potomac Law Group in Austin.

STEVE TYNDALL is now a partner in A&O Shearman in Austin.

Gulf

MAC MARSHALL is now a partner in Troutman Pepper Locke in Houston.

RAYMOND B. WALKER III is now a partner in and head of the Texas offices of Jones Walker, and MARK W. EISENBRAUN and DAVID P. VALENTI are now partners in the firm’s Houston office. JILL BRUMBERGER is now special counsel to the firm in The Woodlands.

IAN P. FARIA, of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings in Houston, was elected a member of the Texas Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. LEAH M. HOMAN, of the firm’s Houston office, was elected a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

JOHNATHAN A. MONDEL is now of counsel to Mitby Pacholder Johnson in Houston.

SEAN B. DAVIS is now a shareholder in Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz in Houston.

JOEL A. GOLDBERG is now a partner in King & Spalding in Houston.

ANITA J. CREECH and VICTORIA N. HADDAD are now associates of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner in Houston.

DANIEL S. MAYERFELD is now a partner in Blank Rome in Houston.

KEVIN DOWNS is now an associate of Reynolds Frizzell in Houston.

North

AUSTIN GREEN is now a shareholder in Polsinelli in Dallas.

JEFFREY J. ANSLEY and ANDREW S. ROBBINS are now partners in Barnes & Thornburg in Dallas.

BOB A. BLACKWELL and NATE W. BLACKBURN are now directors in and BECKY SIEGEL SINGER, LINDSEY L. REINHARDT, and SAYURI A. SHIMODA are now of counsel to Phillips Murrah in Dallas.

C. ADAM FLOYD and TAYLOR D. STEPHENS are now attorneys in the litigation section of Glast Phillips Murray Zopolsky in Dallas.

STEPHANIE E. KAISER is now a shareholder in the Underwood Law Firm in Fort Worth.

MISTY LEON established Practical Counsel Advisors at 14999 Preston Rd., Ste. 112, Dallas 75254.

KELSEY SHOFNER is now a partner in Hilgers in Dallas.

STEWART LAW GROUP, based in Dallas-Fort Worth, has merged with FISHER PHILLIPS. AMY M. STEWART, of Fisher Phillips in Dallas, was appointed chair of the American Bar Association Litigation Section.

IAN ROBERTS is now a partner in Hunton Andrews Kurth in Dallas.

KATELYN J. HELEY is now an associate of Spencer Fane in Plano.

BRADLEY D. LIDDLE and MICHAEL C. POMEROY are now partners in Skiermont Derby in Dallas.

South

MARK MCNITZKY is now a shareholder in Ogletree Deakins in San Antonio.

ALBERT LONG is now of counsel to JCA Law in Laredo.