2023 Practice Groups
CONSTRUCTION LAW
- Board Contact: Dionne Hamilton and Member Co-Chair: Mary Shannon Santee
- Practice Group Sponsor: Kilpatrick Townsend
EMPLOYMENT & LABOR
This group focuses, from both the federal and state level, on traditional labor law topics, employee benefits matters, OSHA and HR issues.
- Board Contact: Christallyn Williams & David Comeaux
- Practice Group Sponsor: Seyfarth Shaw
ENERGY
ACC Houston has a very active Energy Practice Group. This area of practice covers all aspects of the energy industry- including the exploration and production sector, operators and service companies, pipelines, refineries, electric and gas utilities, power generation, coal, LNG, alternative fuels, and energy trading.
- Board Contacts: Raj Duvvuri and Mitch Blakely
- Practice Group Sponsor: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Board Contacts: Lauren Haller and Keith Head
- Practice Group Sponsor: Balch & Bingham LLP
ENVIRONMENTAL & SUSTAINABILITY LAW
The Environmental & Sustainability Law Practice Group enhances the ability of ACC members to practice environmental law. It provides support for the development of related programs within their client companies for both operations and products, including aspects of sustainable development, regulatory, and health and safety issues related to environmental law.
The group serves as a place for ACC members to further their knowledge and expertise, expand access to resources, and enhance the skills needed to advise and represent their clients on related matters.
- Board Contact: Tracey Rice and Kim Pilcher
- Practice Group Sponsor: Beveridge & Diamond, PC
HEALTH LAW
- Board Contact: David Comeaux and Phillina Lai
- Practice Group Sponsor: Seyfarth Shaw
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
This practice group focuses on all categories of intellectual property law and related issues of importance to in-house counsel, such as intellectual property due diligence prepared by in-house counsel for mergers and acquisitions; licensing; patent prosecution; and patent infringement litigation.
- Board Contact: Brian Kentshire and Mitch Blakely
- Practice Group Sponsor: Bracewell LLP
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL AFFAIRS
- Board Contact: Ivett Hughes and Nicole Moss
- Practice Group Sponsor: Womble Bond Dickinson
LITIGATION
Litigation focuses on providing training and continuing legal education opportunities most relevant to in-house litigators and by facilitating the sharing of best practices and will touch on the following aspects of this area of practice:
- enhancing the professionalism of in-house litigators by encouraging, fostering, and assisting in the development of the in-house litigation capabilities.
- providing training and continuing education opportunities in practice areas of importance to litigators.
- exploring the changing relationships between in-house litigators and outside counsel.
- facilitating the understanding of business objectives in the in-house litigation practice and, conversely, defining the proper role of litigation in business strategy.
- facilitating networking between and among in-house litigators on matters of mutual interest.
- Board Contact: Marc Krasney, Nicole Moss & Kim Pilcher
- Practice Group Sponsor: Hunton Andrews Kurth
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
This practice group is intended to provide ACC Houston members with opportunities to share information on the legal issues and documentation associated with various transactions commonly associated with M&A legal work for public companies such as mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of legal entities, businesses and assets, and the formation or organization of joint ventures and equity investments. Examples of documentation that may be addressed include confidentiality agreements, due diligence checklists, letters of intent or term sheets, the definitive agreements, and any ancillary agreements associated with a transaction, including stock transactions as well as asset transactions.
- Board Contact: Jennifer Fung & Kinjal Shah
- Practice Group Sponsor: Baker Botts
