Texas Lawyer has honored Gibbs & Bruns LLP’s founding partner Robin C. Gibbs with its 2017 “Lifetime Achievement Award.” This award is presented as part of Texas Lawyer’s annual “Professional Excellence Awards.”  Profiles of the honorees will be published in the September issue of Texas Lawyer magazine and a special ceremony was held in Dallas on September 6, 2017. About […]

Benchmark Litigation unveiled the second annual edition of its “Under 40 Hot List” naming five Gibbs & Bruns LLP trial lawyers to the elite list:     Sam Cruse          Ayesha Najam     Laura Kissel     Ashley Kleber     Anthony Kaim This exclusive list of partners age 40 or under, compiled by the Benchmark Litigation editors, includes “the most […]

For the sixth consecutive year in a row, Gibbs & Bruns LLP partner Kathy Patrick as been named to Benchmark Litigation‘s “Top 250 Women in Litigation.” Kathy Patrick of Gibbs & Bruns LLP focuses on complex commercial litigation, and more specifically, in securities law, creditor recovery litigation, and institutional investor litigation. She is nationally recognized […]

HOUSTON, June 1, 2017 – Today, 14 institutional investors represented by Gibbs & Bruns LLP (“Institutional Investors”) announced that the settlement offer obtained by them from the Plan Administrator for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the other Debtors in the Lehman Bankruptcy Proceeding (the “Plan Administrator”), under which the Plan Administrator made a binding offer […]

Robin Gibbs, Founding Partner of Gibbs & Bruns, has been named recipient of the 2017 Ronald D. Secrest Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award by the Texas Bar Foundation. This exclusive award is presented annually to an active trial lawyer who “has demonstrated high ethical and moral standards and has demonstrated exceptional professional conduct, thus enhancing the image […]

Chambers USA 2017 ranks Gibbs & Bruns a premier “Band 1” General Commercial Litigation firm – a category in which Chambers named just three other Texas firms.  Every year since 2003, Chambers has recognized Gibbs & Bruns as a top-tier commercial litigation boutique.  Gibbs & Bruns partners Robin Gibbs, Kathy Patrick, Barrett Reasoner and Ayesha Najam are […]

The Legal 500 United States 2017 ranks Gibbs & Bruns LLP a leading law firm in several practice categories, including Leading Trial Lawyers, Energy Litigation: Oil & Gas, General Commercial Disputes and Securities Litigation: Plaintiff. Partners Robin Gibbs, Kathy Patrick and Barrett Reasoner are highlighted on the selective “Leading US Trial Lawyers” shortlist which names […]

HOUSTON, April 3, 2017 – Today, 14 institutional investors represented by Gibbs & Bruns LLP (“Institutional Investors”) announced they have reached an agreement with the Plan Administrator for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the other Debtors in the Lehman Bankruptcy Proceeding (the “Plan Administrator”) under which the Plan Administrator has made a binding offer (“Offer”) […]

Gibbs & Bruns partners Robin Gibbs and Kathy Patrick are named in the 12th anniversary edition of Lawdragon 500, “The 2017 Lawdragon Leading Lawyers in America.”  The annual list highlights top lawyers in the United States.  Only 500 lawyers are named by the publication each year with the honorees chosen from a combination of peer nominations and editorial research.

On March 17, 2017, the firm reached a settlement with the Plan Administrator for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the other Debtors in the Lehman bankruptcy proceeding on behalf of 14 institutional investor clients.  The agreement obligates Lehman to make a binding offer to the trustees of 244 RMBS trusts issued by Lehman (or into […]