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POWERHOUSE
WHITE-COLLAR FIRM, GERGER & CLARKE, HIRES
JUNIOR SUPERSTAR FROM SKADDEN
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of the country's preeminent white-collar criminal
defense boutiques, Gerger & Clarke, hires
another superstar, Dane Ball. Ball was the number
3 graduate of Pepperdine School of Law, where
he attended on a full-tuition scholarship, graduated
summa cum laude, and served for two
years as law clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Fifth Circuit Judge Harold DeMoss. He
joins from Skadden, Arps' Houston office, where
he handled securities fraud, criminal investigations,
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NEWLY-FORMED
BURFORD & MANEY P.C. ADDS
MID-LEVEL
TRIAL LAWYER TO ITS ROSTER
Andrew
Meade joins former Gibbs & Bruns partner Robert
Burford and Mark Maney's new firm, Burford & Maney.
Meade graduated magna cum laude and was number
2 in his '01 University of Houston Law Center class,
where he was a Member of the Houston Law Review, and
a former law clerk for Fifth Circuit Judge Henry Politz. Meade
is also a former U.S. Army Infantry Soldier. He
joins from Hicks, Thomas and brings experience handling
all aspects of commercial litigation. Burford &
Maney quickly gained international recognition when
they brought suit, on behalf of the Republic of Iraq
and the Iraqi people, against nearly 100 international
companies for their roles in the corruption of the United
Nations Oil for Food Programme, which allowed the Hussein
Regime to sell Iraqi oil to buy food, medicine and other
humanitarian aid for the Iraqi people, but which has
been describedas the largest financial and political
fraud in history.
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ARNOLD
& ITKIN KEEPS WINNING IN THE COURTROOM AND IN
THEIR HIRING
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Quickly
becoming the national "Go-To" personal injury firm,
Arnold & Itkin hires a junior superstar, Robert Wynne.
Wynne graduated summa cum laude from Loyola
University Law School in New Orleans, where he graduate First
in his class, was Editor-In-Chief of the Law Review, and a
former law clerk on both the U.S. Court of Appeals for Fifth
Circuit (Wiener, J.) and U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of Louisiana (Fallon, J.). Before law school, Wynne
also graduated summa cum laude from L.S.U., where
he was a Letterman and Starting Offensive Guard on the LSU
football team.
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David
Marcus has well-established client-relationships with the
most prestigious law firms and finest corporate legal departments
in Texas and around the country, ranging from the elite high-stakes
Houston and Dallas-based litigation boutiques, to full-service
national and international law firms with offices worldwide.
Marcus also works with the in-house corporate departments
of the Texas-based Fortune 500 companies.
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CEVA
LOGISTICS HIRES
WORLDWIDE
HEAD OF LITIGATION
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Marcus recruits Shane Kimzey (Texas '97) to be the
next Global Director of Litigation, for CEVA Logistics.
CEVA, which acquired EGL, Inc., is a non-listed
freight-forwarding and global logistics company, based
in the Netherlands, with U.S. headquarters in Houston,
and is owned by affiliates of Apollo Management, L.P.,
one of the world's leading private equity investors.
Marcus
has worked with many of the finest corporate legal
departments in Texas, such as Dell, Dynegy, Clear
Channel, HP, Cooper Industries, Global SantaFe, Hanover
Compressor, Oxy, Reliant, SBC, Sun America, Nabors
Industries, AIM, Burlington Resources, Shell, Texas
Instruments, Koch, Manhattan Life Insurance, Huntsman,
Kinder Morgan, Marathon Oil, U.S. Concrete, Apache,
WillBros USA, and Encore Bank.
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