May 27, 2009

T&K Attorney Named One of Dallas' Top Business-Defense Lawyers

Dallas, Texas - The global law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to congratulate Craig A. Haynes for being named one of the top 15 business-defense lawyers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The list was published on May 22, 2009, in the Dallas Business Journal's fourth annual "Defenders" publication.

To view Haynes' listing in the "Defenders" publication, please follow this link.

Haynes is a Partner in the Trial and Energy Litigation Practice Groups in Thompson & Knight's Dallas office. He focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on energy litigation. He represents major oil companies, large and small independents, gas plant owners, and other oil and gas interest owners in royalty owner litigation, class action litigation, pricing disputes, take-or-pay issues, operational issues, development and drainage claims, pooling and unitization issues, litigation of administrative disputes, and disputes between working interest owners. Haynes has represented energy industry clients in actions in Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Alaska. He also handles a broad range of non-energy related complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts throughout Texas. He is actively involved in the local bar, and he has been named to The Best Lawyers in America^® by Woodward/White Inc., Texas Super Lawyers^® by Thomson Reuters, and Texas Lawyer's Go-To Guide.

The "Defenders" highlights 15 attorneys who were selected solely by Dallas Business Journal editors from a number of impressive lawyers who were nominated by their peers. Selections were based on a criteria of recognizing lawyers who are by reputation the best at defending and protecting companies against lawsuits, are the most formidable and accomplished business defense lawyers, and who, at the same time, exhibit the highest levels of professionalism and ethics.

For more information, please visit http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2009/05/25/focus9.html.

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Becky S. Jackson
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