Benchmark Litigation released it’s 2017 “Top 250 Women In Litigation” directory naming Gibbs & Bruns partner Kathy Patrick for the fifth consecutive year since the feature’s inception. Benchmark Litigation highlights women who “are the nation’s leading female litigator” who participate in “some of the most impactful litigation matters in recent history.”

The Lawdragon 500 – The 2016 Leading Lawyers in America – list names Gibbs & Bruns partners Robin Gibbs and Kathy Patrick again this year. The guide is comprised of a combination of editorial research by the editorial staff and peer and firm nominations.  This year’s list pays homage to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader […]

Noting the firm’s “impressive client base,” industry directory Legal 500 released its 2016 rankings recognizing Gibbs & Bruns LLP in its Leading Trial Lawyers, Energy Litigation and Securities Litigation – Plaintiff top tier rankings. Trial lawyers Robin Gibbs, Kathy Patrick, Barrett Reasoner and Grant Harvey are highlighted on the selective “Leading US Trial Lawyers” shortlist […]

Gibbs & Bruns’ Kathy Patrick is featured in a special article series, “Law360’s Influential Women in Securities Law.” Kathy’s recent recoveries of more than $21 billion for mortgage-back securities investor clients are the focus of the article feature, including the precedent-setting $8.5 billion deal with Bank of America. “What struck me about Kathy from the first time […]

  Gibbs & Bruns partner Barrett Reasoner was featured by Law 360 in a special Q&A series entitled “Trial Pros.” Barrett focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation in a broad array of areas, including oil and gas, securities, legal and professional malpractice, construction, environmental and intellectual property law.  Barrett has tried cases in state […]

  Gibbs & Bruns LLP partner Barrett Reasoner penned a heartfelt tribute to his father, Harry Reasoner, in the Spring 2016 edition of the Journal of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society, entitled “A Tribute to Harry Reasoner.” Harry Reasoner, former Managing Partner of Vinson & Elkins, is a longtime friend and colleague of the trial […]

  Gibbs & Bruns partner Barrett Reasoner was nominated to join the elite International Academy of Trial Lawyers. The Academy is a truly distinct group with only 500 active trial lawyers under the age of 70.  The Academy includes trial lawyers representing both sides of the Bar and membership is by invitation only following an […]

Chambers USA 2016 ranks Gibbs & Bruns a first tier “Band 1” General Commercial Litigation firm – a category in which Chambers named just three law firms in Texas.  Chambers’ editorial nods to the firm’s “superbly accomplished representation on both sides of the docket” and “substantial recent victories for plaintiffs and defendants in a range of […]

In its “Glass Ceiling Report” Law 360 released its 2016 ranking of firms with the highest percentage of women in the partnership.  Gibbs & Bruns LLP placed in the 14th position on the “Ceiling Smashers” shortlist of just 27 firms whose women partnership ranks are above 33 percent.   Gibbs & Bruns’s women partnership percentage is 37.5 […]

Gibbs & Bruns partner Kathy Patrick was named to Law 360’s “20 Most Influential Women in Securities Law.” Law 360 editors selected a “top group of women who have…scored major victories for companies and their shareholders and shattered assumptions” in this particular area of law.  Kathy was selected to the shortlist of 20 lawyers from over […]