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| | Address | | 1100 Louisiana, Suite 5300 | | Houston, Texas 77002-5214 | | (Ft. Bend, Harris & Montgomery Cos.) | | | |
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(Main Office)
| Gibbs & Bruns L.L.P. practices in the following areas of law:
Commercial, business and general litigation. The firm represents companies and individuals as both plaintiffs and defendants in trial and appellate litigation and arbitration involving contract, securities, director liability, intellectual property (patent/copyright/trade secret), fraud and fiduciary claims, insurance, professional malpractice, partnership disputes, oil and gas/energy, construction, lender liability, class action and antitrust. | | Year Established: 1983 | Firm Profile:
Gibbs & Bruns L.L.P. is Member of National Business Litigation Group. | | Firm Size: 38 | Law Firm Affiliations:
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF BOUTIQUE LAW FIRMS: President, Houston Chapter | | PARTNERS | | Robin C. Gibbs (Member) born Mackenzie, British Guiana, October 12, 1946; admitted to bar, 1971, Texas, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Ninth Circuits, U.S. District Court, Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas and U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Tulane University (B.A., 1968); University of Texas Law School (J.D., 1971). Phi Alpha Delta. Member and Officer, Texas Law Review, 1970-1971. Member: The American Law Institute; State Bar of Texas; American Bar Association; Houston Bar Association; Harris County Bar Association; American Board of Trial Advocates (Advocate). Fellow: International Academy of Trial Lawyers; American Bar Foundation; Texas Bar Foundation; American College of Trial Lawyers. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Robin C. Gibbs | | Phillip T. Bruns (Member) born Bartlesville, Oklahoma, January 24, 1956; admitted to bar, 1981, Texas; U.S. District Court, Southern, Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Third Circuits. Education: University of Oklahoma (B.A., 1978); University of Texas (J.D., 1981). Chancellors. Member, Texas Law Review, 1980. Member: Houston and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Phillip T. Bruns | | J. Christopher Reynolds (Member) born Corpus Christi, Texas, July 9, 1959; admitted to bar, 1983, Texas. Education: University of Texas (B.S., with honors, 1980); University of Texas (J.D., with honors, 1982). Tau Beta Pi; Chi Epsilon; Order of the Coif. Member, Texas Law Review, 1981-1982. Member: Houston and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas. Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers; Texas Bar Foundation. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: J. Christopher Reynolds | | Kathy D. Patrick (Member) born Rapid City, South Dakota, July 20, 1960; admitted to bar, 1985, Texas and District of Columbia; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas. Education: University of Texas at El Paso (B.A., with highest honors, 1982); Harvard University (J.D., 1985). Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Alpha Delta. Instructor, Legal Methods, Harvard University, 1983-1985. Judicial Clerk to Hon. John R. Brown, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1985-1986. Member: Houston and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; The District of Columbia Bar. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation; Securities Litigation. Email: Kathy D. Patrick | | Robert R. Burford (Member) born Mobile, Alabama, 1957; admitted to bar, 1986, Texas. Education: University of Houston (B.B.A., 1981; J.D., cum laude, 1986). Editor, Houston Law Review, 1985-1986. Order of the Coif; Order of the Barons. Member: State Bar of Texas; American and Houston Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Robert R. Burford | | Jean C. Frizzell (Member) born New Jersey, October 6, 1965; admitted to bar, 1990, Texas; U.S. District Court, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas, U.S. District Court, District of Colorado and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Education: Rice University (B.A., 1987); University of Texas (J.D., honors, 1990). Member, University of Texas Law Review, 1989-1990. Member: Houston and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; Texas Bar Foundation; Houston Bar Foundation. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Jean C. Frizzell | | Grant J. Harvey (Member) born Northampton, Massachusetts, November 7, 1964; admitted to bar, 1991, Texas and U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1992, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas and U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit. Education: University of Utah (B.S., 1986; M.S.I.E., 1987); University of Texas (J.D., with honors, 1990). Order of the Coif. Associate Editor, Texas Law Review. Teaching Quizmaster, University of Texas at Austin, 1989-1990. Law Clerk, Judge David M. Ebel, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1990-1991. Instructor, University of Houston Industrial Engineering Department. Member: Houston and Texas Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Commercial Arbitration; Title VII; Employment Litigation; Personal Injury. Email: Grant J. Harvey | | Barrett H. Reasoner (Member) born Houston, Texas, April 16, 1964; admitted to bar, 1990, Texas; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Duke University (B.A., cum laude, 1986); London School of Economics and Political Science (Graduate Diploma, International and Comparative Politics, 1987); University of Texas (J.D., with honors, 1990). Order of Barristers. Assistant District Attorney, Harris County, 1990-1992. Member: American Law Institute. Member: Board of Directors, 1994-1999; Executive Committee, 1997-1999, American Judicature Society. Member, Board of Directors and Former Chairman, Houston Volunteer Lawyers' Program, 2002-2006. Member: Houston Bar Association (Board of Directors, 2000—; President-Elect 2008-2009); State Bar of Texas. Fellow: Texas Bar Foundation; Houston Bar Foundation. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Barrett H. Reasoner | | Robert J. Madden (Member) born Phoenix, Arizona, September 23, 1963; admitted to bar, 1992, Texas; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit and U.S. District Court, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas. Education: University of Texas (B.A., with High Honors, 1988); University of Texas School of Law (J.D., 1992). Member: Houston and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Robert J. Madden | | Jeffry J. Cotner (Member) born Sallisaw, Oklahoma, August 13, 1965; admitted to bar, 1992, Texas and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas. Education: University of Oklahoma (B.B.A., with special distinction, 1986); Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 1992). Managing Editor, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Certified Public Accountant, Oklahoma (1987). Member: State Bar of Texas; Houston and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Jeffry J. Cotner | | Jennifer Horan Greer (Member) born Evanston, Illinois, January 9, 1967; admitted to bar, 1993, Texas; U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third and Fifth Circuits and U.S. District Court, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas. Education: University of Texas (B.A., with honors and with special honors, 1989; J.D., with honors, 1992). Order of the Coif. Chief Articles Editor, 1991-1992, Member, 1990-1992, Texas Law Review. Law Clerk, Hon. David M. Ebel, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, 1992-1993. Member: Houston Bar Association; Fifth Federal Circuit and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Appellate Litigation; Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Jennifer Horan Greer | | Andrew L. Pickens (Member) born Perry, Florida, June 9, 1962; admitted to bar, 1991, Texas; U.S. District Court, District of Arizona; U.S. District Court, Southern and Western Districts of Texas; U.S. Court of Appeals, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Circuits. Education: Dartmouth College (A.B., cum laude, 1984); University of California, Los Angeles (J.D., 1990). Law Clerk, Judge Donald S. Russell, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1991-1992; Judge Frank W. Bullock, Jr., U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina, 1990-1991. Member: Houston Bar Association. Fellow: Texas Bar Foundation (Life Fellow); Houston Bar Foundation. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Andrew L. Pickens | | Scott A. Humphries (Member) born Sydney, Australia, July 9, 1970; admitted to bar, 1996, Texas; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; U.S. District Court, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas. Education: University of Texas (B.A., with highest honors, 1992); Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude and Joseph K. Beale Prize winner, 1996); University of Kent at Canterbury (Diploma with Merit, International Relations, 1991) Phi Beta Kappa. Fellow: Texas Bar Foundation; Houston Bar Foundation. Member: Houston and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Scott A. Humphries | | Michael K. Oldham (Member) born Houston, Texas, February 27, 1971; admitted to bar, 1997, Texas; U.S. District Court, Southern and Northern Districts of Texas and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Education: University of Texas (B.A., Plan II; B.B.A., Honors Business Program; B.B.A., Finance, 1993; J.D., with high honors, 1996). Vice-Chancellor. Order of the Coif. Associate Editor, Texas Law Review. Law Clerk, Judge Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1996-1997. Member: State Bar of Texas; Houston Bar Association; Houston Young Lawyers Association; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Michael K. Oldham | | Jeffrey C. Kubin (Member) born Corpus Christi, Texas, August 4, 1968; admitted to bar, 1997, Texas. Education: Georgetown University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1990); University of Texas (J.D., with honors, 1997). Phi Beta Kappa. Alpha Sigma Nu. Order of the Coif. Law Clerk to Hon. Edith H. Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1997-1998. Editor-in-Chief, Texas Law Review. Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Complex Civil Litigation; Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Jeffrey C. Kubin | | John Scott Black (Member) born Houston, Texas, November 14, 1972; admitted to bar, 1999, Texas; U.S. District Court, Southern and Western Districts of Texas. Education: University of Texas at Austin (B.S., in Philosophy, 1995; J.D., 1999; M.P. Aff., 1999). Order of Barristers. Friar Society. Recipient, Texas Invitational Trial Champion and Best Advocate, 1998; ATLA National Trial Champion, 1999 (Member, Law Week Committee); Niemann Cup (top graduating oral advocate, 1999). Member: Houston Bar Association; Houston Young Lawyers Association; American Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. Languages: Spanish. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation; Personal Injury. Email: John Scott Black | | Jeremy L. Doyle (Member) born Washington, D.C., March 26, 1971; admitted to bar, 1999, Texas. Education: University of Virginia (B.A., 1993); University of Texas (J.D., with high honors, M.B.A., 1999). Order of the Coif. Member: State Bar of Texas; Houston Bar Association. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Jeremy L. Doyle | | Brandon T. Allen (Member) born San Antonio, Texas, June 13, 1973; admitted to bar, 1998, Texas; U.S District Court, Southern, Western and Eastern Districts of Texas and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Education: University of Texas at Austin (B.A., with honors, 1995; J.D., with high honors, 1998). Order of the Coif. Editor-in-Chief, Texas Law Review, 1997-1998. Law Clerk, Judge Royce C. Lamberth, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, 1998-1999. Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Brandon T. Allen | | Mark A. Giugliano (Member) born Auburn, New York, June 6, 1972; admitted to bar, 1999, Texas; U.S. District Court, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas. Education: Yale University (B.A., History, 1994); University of Texas at Austin (J.D., with honors, 1999). Order of the Coif. Chief Articles Editor, Texas Law Review, 1998-1999. Law Clerk, Justice Nathan L. Hecht, Texas Supreme Court, 1999-2000. Member: Houston and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Mark A. Giugliano | | Aundrea K. Frieden (Partner) born Springfield, Illinois, October 12, 1975; admitted to bar, 2000, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 2001, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of Texas; 2002, Texas. Education: Western Illinois University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1996); University of Illinois (J.D., magna cum laude, 2000). Member, Order of Coif. Articles Editor, 1999-2000, Member 1998-2000, University of Illinois Law Review. Member: Houston and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Aundrea K. Frieden | | ASSOCIATES | | Sydney G. Ballesteros (Associate) born Houston, Texas, November 30, 1973; admitted to bar, 2002, Texas. Education: University of California at Santa Barbara (B.A., with highest honors, 1996); University of Houston Law Center (J.D., magna cum laude, 2002). Order of the Coif. Editor-in-Chief, University of Houston Law Review. Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Sydney G. Ballesteros | | Samuel W. Cruse, III (Associate) born Houston, Texas, January 8, 1977; admitted to bar, 2002, Texas; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas. Education: University of Texas at Austin (B.A., 1999; J.D., 2002). Chancellors; Order of the Coif; Member, Law Review, 2000-2002. Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Samuel W. Cruse, III | | Brian T. Ross (Associate) born Houston, Texas, December 10, 1976; admitted to bar, 2002, Texas; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; U.S. District Court, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas. Education: University of Texas at Austin (B.A., 1999); Harvard Law School (J.D., 2002). Phi Beta Kappa. Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Brian T. Ross | | Laura J. Kissel (Associate) born Crawford, Nebraska, November 10, 1978; admitted to bar, 2004, Texas and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas. Education: University of Kansas (B.A., with highest distinction, 2001); University of Texas (J.D., with high honors, 2004). Chancellors - Keeper of the Peregrinus; Order of the Coif. Member, Texas Law Review. Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Laura J. Kissel | | Michael R. Absmeier (Associate) born Panorama City, California, 1976; admitted to bar, 2005, Texas. Education: University of Southern California (B.S., 1998) Distinguished Military Graduate; University of Texas (J.D., with honors, 2005). Order of the Coif. Associate Editor, 2004-2005; Member, 2003-2004, The Review of Litigation. Legal Intern to Hon. Priscilla R. Owen, Texas Supreme Court, 2005. Member: State Bar of Texas. [Captain, U.S. Army, 1998-2002]. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Michael R. Absmeier | | Ayesha Najam (Associate) born Houston, Texas, 1979; admitted to bar, 2004, Texas. Education: Rice University (B.A., magna cum laude, 2001); Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2004). Law Clerk, Hon. Stephen H. Glickman, District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Ayesha Najam | | Laurel Boatright (Associate) born Austin, Texas, April 16, 1979; admitted to bar, 2006, Texas. Education: Rice University (B.A., magna cum laude, 2001); University of Texas at Austin (J.D., with honors, 2006). Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. Languages: Spanish. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Laurel Boatright | | Matthew D. Cooper (Associate) born Heidelberg, West Germany, October 4, 1975; admitted to bar, 2007, Texas. Education: Seattle Pacific University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1999); Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 2006). Managing Editor, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2005-2006. Law Clerk to Judge Jerry Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2006-2007. Member: Houston Bar Association. [Captain, United States Air Force, 1999-2003]. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Matthew D. Cooper | | Tracy Dodds Larson (Associate) born Elizabeth, New Jersey, February 19, 1981; admitted to bar, 2006, Texas. Education: University of Virginia (B.A., with distinction, 2003); Harvard University (J.D., magna cum laude, 2006). Executive Editor, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2005-2006. Law Clerk to Chief Judge Edith H. Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Member: Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Bar; Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Tracy Dodds Larson | | Ann T. Lebeck (Associate) born Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1976; admitted to bar, 2006, Texas; 2007, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Education: University of North Carolina (B.A., 1998) University of Texas (J.D., with honors, 2006). Articles Editor, Texas Law Review, 2005-2006. Law Clerk to Judge Will Garwood, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2006-2007. Member: State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Ann T. Lebeck | | SENIOR COUNSEL | | Caren Schmulen Sweetland (Senior Counsel) born New Orleans, Louisiana, November 4, 1972; admitted to bar, 1998, Texas. Education: Washington University in St. Louis (B.A., with honors, 1995); University of Texas School of Law (J.D., with honors, 1998). Phi Beta Kappa. Order of the Coif. Member, Texas Law Review, 1996-1998 and Administrative Editor, 1997-1998. Briefing Attorney for Chief Justice Thomas R. Phillips, Texas Supreme Court, 1998-1999. Member: State Bar of Texas; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Caren Schmulen Sweetland | | Angus Joseph Dodson (Senior Counsel) born Summit, New Jersey, October 27, 1968; admitted to bar, 2000, Colorado; 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 2002, Texas and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas. Education: George Washington University (B.A., cum laude, 1991); University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law (J.D., 2000). Member, Order of Coif. Articles Editor, University of Colorado Law Review. Law Clerk, Judge David M. Ebel, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit. Member: Houston Bar Association. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: Angus Joseph Dodson |
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