Fifteen Gibbs & Bruns trial lawyers are highlighted in 2024 The Best Lawyers in America directory in multiple areas of litigation practice. Eleven Gibbs & Bruns partners are recognized in The Best Lawyers in America and five associates are named in The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch.
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Robin Gibbs
Ranked in Best Lawyers since 1993
25+ years of recognition
2012 Lawyer of the Year – Securities Litigation – Houston
2011 Lawyer of the Year – Bet-The-Company Litigation – Houston
Bet-the-Company Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Energy Law
Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants
Litigation – Antitrust
Litigation – Securities
Kathy Patrick
Ranked in Best Lawyers since 2008
2022 Lawyer of the Year – Securities Litigation – Houston
2020 Lawyer of the Year – Bet-the-Company Litigation – Houston
Bet-the-Company Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Litigation – Antitrust
Litigation – Securities
Barrett Reasoner
Ranked in Best Lawyers since 2006
2023 Lawyer of the Year – Legal Malpractice – Defendants – Houston
2019 Lawyer of the Year – Securities Litigation – Houston
2017 Lawyer of the Year – Construction Litigation – Houston
2016 Lawyer of the Year – Securities Litigation – Houston
2015 Lawyer of the Year – Bet-The-Company Litigation – Houston
Bet-the-Company Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Construction Law
Energy Law
Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants
Litigation – Antitrust
Litigation – Construction
Litigation – Securities
Sam Cruse
Ranked in Best Lawyers since 2021
Commercial Litigation
Litigation – Securities
Litigation – Trusts and Estates
Brian T. Ross
Ranked in Best Lawyers since 2020
Commercial Litigation
Anthony Kaim
Ranked in Best Lawyers since 2020
Commercial Litigation
Mark Giugliano
Ranked in Best Lawyers since 2024
Litigation – Construction
David Sheeren
Ranked in Best Lawyers since 2024
Commercial Litigation
Brice Wilkinson
Ranked in Best Lawyers since 2024
Litigation – Antitrust
Jorge M. Gutierrez, Jr.
Ranked in Best Lawyers since 2024
Commercial Litigation
Ranked in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch – Commercial Litigation, 2021-2023
Caitlin Halpern
Ranked in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch since 2023
Commercial Litigation
Justin Patrick
Ranked in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch since 2023
Commercial Litigation
Litigation – Antitrust
Michael Davis
Ranked in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch since 2024
Commercial Litigation
Shannon Smith
Ranked in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch since 2024
Commercial Litigation
Mark Dore
Ranked in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch since 2024
Commercial Litigation
About Best Lawyers
As Best Lawyers® launches the milestone 30th edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, it’s therefore fitting that we feature the qualities of lawyers, firms and the legal industry overall that exude pearlescent brilliance and lasting impact. They’re illustrious, these hidden gems, and their worth is amply on display in this year’s awards.
One of the most critical components of Best Lawyers awards are the evaluations we receive. Both in quality and in number, individual lawyer assessments are the crux of the awards. Each year we get more evaluations—in part a reflection of a greater variety of viable practice areas and more submitted nominations. For the 30th edition, we received a record-breaking 19,708,289 historical evaluations and 2,839,037 new evaluations from across the United States. These staggering figures resulted in the recognition of just over 76,000 talented attorneys by Best Lawyers in 2024—that’s around 5% of all lawyers in the country recognized in The Best Lawyers in America.
