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LOCKE LIDDELL & SAPP PARTNERS RECOGNIZED AMONG

The Best Lawyers In America 2006

June 29, 2006 –Thirty-seven Locke Liddell & Sapp attorneys have been recognized as among the best in their practice areas in the 2006 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. The lawyers and their areas of practice cited in the book are:

Austin Office:

·  James W. Checkley, Jr.: Communications Law and Energy Law

·  Jay Hailey, Jr.: Banking Law and Real Estate Law

·  Brad B. Hawley: Real Estate Law

·  J. Alan Holman: Communications Law and Energy Law

Dallas Office:

·  Frederick W. Addison III: Environmental Law

·  Christopher F. Allison: Tax Law

·  Bryan E. Bishop: Corporate Law

·  George E. Bowles: Commercial Litigation

·  Stuart M. Bumpas: Employee Benefits Law

·  E. Philip Bush: Employee Benefits Law

·  Jerry K. Clements: Commercial Litigation

·  R. Brent Clifton: Tax Law

·  Ronald R. Cresswell: Trusts and Estates

·  H. Gene Emery: Tax Law and Trusts and Estates

·  John L. Estes: Alternative Dispute Resolution

·  Phillip R. Jones: Labor and Employment Law

·  C. Ronald Kalteyer: Tax Law

·  Mark G. Magilow: Real Estate Law

·  John H. McElhaney: Antitrust Law, Commercial Litigation and First Amendment Law

·  Lawrence J. McNamara: Labor and Employment Law

·  Robb P. Stewart: Real Estate Law

·  Linda A. Wilkins: Employee Benefits Law

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Houston Office:

·  William John Bux: Labor and Employment Law

·  Stephanie Donaho: Trusts and Estates

·  J. Graham Hill: Personal Injury Litigation

·  John L. Hopwood: Trusts and Estates

·  Stephen C. Jacobs: Real Estate Law

·  R. Bruce LaBoon: Banking Law

·  Robert McAughan: Intellectual Property Law

·  Marion E. McDaniel, Jr.: Maritime Law

·  Gerald J. Pels: Environmental Law

·  James W. Robertson: Real Estate Law

·  Michael O. Sutton: Intellectual Property Law

·  Mitch Tiras: Tax Law

·  Hal Watson: Maritime Law

·  Donald E. Wood: Banking Law

·  Walter P. Zivley: Tax Law and Trusts and Estates

Established in 1891, Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP is one of the leading law firms in Texas and throughout the nation. A full service law firm with offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and Washington, D.C., Locke Liddell & Sapp has approximately 400 lawyers who represent a broad range of businesses and individual clients having extensive domestic and foreign business interests.

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