Dallas Partner Susan Rainey has been selected as a member of the Dallas Regional Chamber’s premier leadership program, Leadership Dallas. The 2021 class of Leadership Dallas includes change-makers, innovators and executives from a variety of industries.

One of only 44 leaders to be selected for the 2021 class, Susan represents a wide range of clients in environmental matters, including brownfield redevelopment, environmental due diligence for real estate and corporate transactions, environmental compliance and indoor air quality issues.

Leadership Dallas is a nine-month educational program that provides lectures, discussion groups, class projects and various development activities that allow participants to gain a deeper understanding of the issues facing the Dallas region.

August 7, 2020 – Locke Lord was recognized by The Deal as the 2020 Energy and Industrials Law Firm of the Year during its Middle Market Awards, held virtually on July 31, 2020, to recognize the leading bankers, investors and advisers in middle-market transactions.

The Firm’s renowned Energy Practice Group, co-chaired by Bill Swanstrom and Terry Radney stood out from the competition by leading a number of notable deals throughout 2019, including representing NJR Midstream in the acquisition of Leaf River Energy Center LLC from Macquarie Infrastructure Partners; Martin Midstream Partners in the sale of its membership interests in several gas storage assets to Hartree Cardinal Gas, LLC; Generation Pipeline in its sale to NEXUS Gas Transmission and its member companies; White Deer Energy in the purchase of TorcSill Foundations and White Deer’s sale of portfolio company On Point Oilfield Holdings to Gravity; and Coastal Flow Measurement in the company’s sale to Quorum Software, a Thoma Bravo portfolio company, among many others.

Locke Lord has earned a reputation as one of the world’s preeminent energy law firms. The Energy Practice Group is involved in all aspects of the energy value chain and is prominent in traditional oil and gas. Locke Lord lawyers represent clients in a broad range of M&A and project development activities and are extremely active in private equity transactions and fund formation engagements for energy clients.

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About Locke Lord LLP
Locke Lord is a full-service law firm with global reach and 21 offices designed to meet clients’ needs in the United States and around the world. The Firm has a history that spans more than 130 years and is a leader in the middle market arena. Locke Lord focuses on providing the highest levels of commitment, quality and service to clients across its five Key Sectors: Energy and Infrastructure; Finance and Financial Services; Insurance and Reinsurance; Pharmaceutical; and Private Equity. In addition, the Firm advises clients across a broad spectrum of other industries, including fund formation, venture capital, health care, public finance, real estate, technology, cybersecurity and white collar, while providing a wealth of experience through its complex litigation, intellectual property, tax, regulatory and transactional teams.

(BOSTON) August 3, 2020 – Boston Partner Stephanie Massey, Co-Chair of Locke Lord’s nationally recognized Public Finance Practice Group, has been selected as one of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s 2020 Top Women of Law, which celebrates the achievements of exceptional women lawyers who are pioneers, educators, trailblazers and role models. Massey will be honored during a virtual reception on Nov. 17.

Massey is an active member of the community, having served since 2018 as a member of the golf tournament planning committee for the Judge Baker Children’s Center, which is the organization’s annual fundraiser to support its work to promote the best possible mental health of children and families through the integration of research, intervention, training and advocacy. She has also volunteered time to various nonprofits providing support to underserved populations, including Pine Street Inn and Wrentham Developmental Center.

In her practice, Massey serves as bond counsel and/or borrower’s counsel to many well-known, influential institutions. She has also served as underwriters’ counsel and bank’s counsel for numerous other entities in public finance transactions. Massey works on financings for nonprofits such as colleges and universities, hospitals, community health centers, private schools, senior living facilities and cultural institutions as well as solid waste disposal companies, housing finance agencies, charter schools and other governmental entities. Massey is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and Boston Women in Public Finance.

Locke Lord Boston Partners Jennifer Capasso Mendonça and Allison O’Neil have been honored previously as Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Top Women of Law.

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About Locke Lord LLP
Locke Lord is a full-service law firm with global reach and 21 offices designed to meet clients’ needs in the United States and around the world. The Firm has a history that spans more than 130 years and is a leader in the middle market arena. Locke Lord focuses on providing the highest levels of commitment, quality and service to clients across its five Key Sectors: Energy and Infrastructure; Finance and Financial Services; Insurance and Reinsurance; Pharmaceutical; and Private Equity. In addition, the Firm advises clients across a broad spectrum of other industries, including fund formation, venture capital, health care, public finance, real estate, technology, cybersecurity and white collar, while providing a wealth of experience through its complex litigation, intellectual property, tax, regulatory and transactional teams.

August 20, 2020 – Locke Lord is pleased to announce 145 lawyers from 16 U.S. offices have been recognized in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, and 29 lawyers from 10 offices were recognized in the inaugural edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch. In addition, five of the Firm’s lawyers were recognized under the special designation of Lawyer of the Year, an honor earned by just one lawyer in each practice area and metropolitan area.

Lawyer of the Year Recipients:

Daryl J. Lapp (Boston) – Education Law
Walter J. St. Onge III (Boston) – Public Finance Law
John B. McKnight (Dallas) – Corporate Governance Law
Christopher D. Graham (Providence) – Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Karen S. D. Grande (Providence) – Public Finance Law

The full list of Locke Lord lawyers listed in the 2021 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch follows below.

Atlanta

Austin

Boston

Chicago

Cincinnati

Dallas

Houston

Los Angeles

  • Alfred M. Clark – Real Estate Law
  • Jonevin Sabado – Ones to Watch: Labor and Employment Law – Management

New Orleans

New York

  • Rob Evans – Securities / Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation
  • Alan J. Levin – Insurance Law, Reinsurance Law
  • Eric C. Strain – Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Providence

Stamford

Washington, D.C.

West Palm Beach

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About Locke Lord LLP
Locke Lord is a full-service law firm with global reach and 21 offices designed to meet clients’ needs in the United States and around the world. The Firm has a history that spans more than 130 years and is a leader in the middle market arena. Locke Lord focuses on providing the highest levels of commitment, quality and service to clients across its five Key Sectors: Energy and Infrastructure; Finance and Financial Services; Insurance and Reinsurance; Pharmaceutical; and Private Equity. In addition, the Firm advises clients across a broad spectrum of other industries, including fund formation, venture capital, health care, public finance, real estate, technology, cybersecurity and white collar, while providing a wealth of experience through its complex litigation, intellectual property, tax, regulatory and transactional teams.

Locke Lord was ranked fourth on The Bond Buyer’s list of top bond counsel in the nation for competitive sales during the first half of 2020, with 73 issues totaling $1.48 billion, and fifth on the Top Underwriter’s Counsel list, with 35 issues totaling $5.98 billion. The firm also ranked second nationally for private bond counsel.

Locke Lord’s recent Public Finance notable matters include acting as bond counsel for the Town of Belmont, Mass., in the sale of $103.5 million of General Obligation Bonds; acting as bond counsel to the State of New Hampshire for the issuance of $80.18 million General Obligation Capital Improvement Bonds, 2020 Series A, and acting as bond counsel to the City of Cambridge, Mass., for the issuance of $46.7 million of General Obligation Municipal Purpose Loan of 2020 Bonds to support various municipal infrastructure projects.

The team has also recently served as underwriters’ counsel in connection with the following notable financings: the Grand Parkway Transportation Corporation’s issuance of $2.3 billion Grand Parkway System Toll Revenue Refunding Bonds; the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ issuance of $1.4 billion of General Obligation Bonds; the Massachusetts School Building Authority’s issuance of $1.09 billion of Senior Dedicated Sales Tax Refunding Bonds, 2020 Series B, and $350 million of Senior Dedicated Sales Tax Bonds, 2020 Series A; the Texas Transportation Commission’s issuance of $794.24 million of Texas Highway Improvement General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Taxable Series 2020, and the City of San Antonio’s issuance of $471.59 million General Improvement Refunding Bonds.

Locke Lord’s Public Finance Practice Group has one of the largest bond counsel practices in the country and more than 130 years of involvement in the law of public borrowing and the federal tax and securities aspects of public debt obligations. The Firm’s public finance lawyers have extensive experience nationwide serving as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriters’ counsel, issuer’s counsel, borrower’s counsel, bank counsel, special tax counsel and trustee’s counsel representing the full range of governmental and quasi-governmental issuers, special purpose entities, tax-exempt organizations and other entities and financial institutions.

Locke Lord’s Health Care Practice Group has again been named to Modern Healthcare’s Largest Health Care Law Firms list, ranking 30 in the most recent edition, based on the number of health care lawyers in 2020. The Health Care Practice Group is co-chaired by Washington, D.C., Office Managing Partner Denise Hanna.

Locke Lord’s Health Care Practice Group assists clients in achieving their business objectives and enabling them to navigate the legal and regulatory complexities unique to the health care industry. The practice group is made up of lawyers with deep experience in both managed care and health insurance matters and representation of health care providers. Lawyers in the practice group have a significant record of success working closely with a variety of health care industry clients on new and emerging transactions, relationships and joint ventures spurred by government and private sector health care reform initiatives.

Locke Lord represents a diverse array of national and regional clients in the industry, including health care providers, health insurers and health care intermediaries as well as investors and health information technology companies in M&A and other transactions, regulatory (multistate and federal) compliance, government relations, enforcement matters and litigation.

In 2020, three of Locke Lord’s Health Care Partners were individually recognized in Chambers USA.

Case Towslee, an Associate in Locke Lord’s Houston office, earned the highest score on the February 2020 Texas Bar Exam. The Houston Chronicle featured Towslee in an article after he received the news from State Supreme Court Justice Brett Busby and took part in a virtual swearing in ceremony in a Zoom chatroom. 

Towslee joined the Firm in March remotely amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

To read the full article, click here (subscription may be required).

April 23, 2020 – Legal directory Chambers USA has recognized 57 Locke Lord lawyers and 18 of the Firm’s practice areas for excellence in its 2020 edition. Ten of the Firm’s lawyers have achieved Band 1 rankings in their respective practice areas, and the Firm’s Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional) practice has ‎earned a nationwide distinction.‎

Locke Lord lawyers honored on a nationwide level include: Nick J. DiGiovanni (Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Reinsurance), Terry Radney (Energy: Oil & Gas Transactional) and Bill Swanstrom (Energy: Oil & Gas Transactional).

In addition, three Locke Lord lawyers moved up in this year’s rankings: Denise Hanna (Health Care), W. Scott Hastings (Litigation: Appellate) and Jennifer Capasso Mendonça (Banking & Finance: Public Finance).

Below is a full list of Locke Lord lawyers ranked in Chambers USA 2020:

Nationwide

Nick J. DiGiovanni – Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Reinsurance
Terry Radney – Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)
Bill Swanstrom – Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)

Florida (West Palm Beach)

Mark-David Adams – Banking & Finance: Public Finance

Illinois (Chicago)

Michael P. Bennett – Technology & Outsourcing
Jon Biasetti – Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory
Nick J. DiGiovanni – Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Reinsurance (Band 1)
Samuel Stempel – Real Estate
Paige D. Waters – Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory

Louisiana (New Orleans)

Omer F. ”Rick” Kuebel III – Bankruptcy/Restructuring

Massachusetts (Boston)

Christopher M. Flanagan – Tax
Richard D. Glovsky – Labor & Employment
Stanley Keller – Corporate/M&A
Richard A. Manley Jr. – Banking & Finance: Public Finance
Stephanie H. Massey – Banking & Finance: Public Finance
Jennifer Capasso Mendonça – Banking & Finance: Public Finance
David L. Ruediger – Banking & Finance
Walter J. St. Onge III – Banking & Finance: Public Finance (Band 1)
Jonathan W. Young – Bankruptcy/Restructuring

Rhode Island (Providence)

Peter J. Barrett – Corporate/Commercial
Mark W. Freel – Litigation: General Commercial (Band 1)
Christopher D. Graham – Corporate/Commercial (Band 1)
Douglas G. Gray – Corporate/Commercial
Charles F. Rogers – Real Estate

Texas

Austin

Brad Hawley – Real Estate
Tai C. Tran – Real Estate

Dallas

E. Philip Bush – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Dallas)
Paul E. Coggins – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Band 1)
Don M. Glendenning – Corporate/M&A
W. Scott Hastings – Litigation: Appellate
Elizabeth E. Mack – Environment
Kiprian Mendrygal – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations‎
Michael V. Powell – Litigation: General Commercial
Susan M. Rainey – Environment
Cynthia Timms – Litigation: Appellate
Bradley C. Weber – Antitrust

Houston

John K. Arnold – Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (Oil & Gas) (Band 1) and Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (Electricity)
Charles S. Baker – Intellectual Property
M. Benjamin Cowan – Environment
Chris Dove – Litigation: Appellate
Laura L. Ferguson – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Houston)
Gerald D. (Jerry) Higdon – Environment
Stephen C. Jacobs – Real Estate
Gerald J. Pels – Environment
Edward A. Razim III – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Houston) (Band 1)
Bill Swanstrom – Corporate/M&A

Washington, D.C.

Denise Hanna – Health Care

Locke Lord practice areas recognized in Chambers USA 2020 are:

Nationwide

Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)

California

Insurance: Insurer

Florida

Banking & Finance

Illinois

Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Reinsurance
Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory
Technology & Outsourcing

Massachusetts

Banking & Finance
Banking & Finance: Public Finance

Rhode Island

Corporate/Commercial

Texas

Antitrust
Corporate/M&A
Environment
Litigation: Appellate
Litigation: General Commercial
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Real Estate

Dallas

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Houston

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Chambers & Partners has been ranking lawyers across all industries since 1990. Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business surveys and interviews clients and lawyers across the United States to determine which firms and lawyers are considered leaders in their field. Rankings assess key qualities in the legal field, including technical legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial awareness/astuteness, diligence and commitment.

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About Locke Lord LLP
Locke Lord is a full-service law firm with global reach and 21 offices designed to meet clients’ needs in the United States and around the world. The Firm has a history that spans more than 130 years and is a leader in the middle market arena. Locke Lord focuses on providing the highest levels of commitment, quality and service to clients across its five Key Sectors: Energy and Infrastructure; Finance and Financial Services; Insurance and Reinsurance; Pharmaceutical; and Private Equity. In addition, the Firm advises clients across a broad spectrum of other industries, including fund formation, venture capital, health care, public finance, real estate, technology, cybersecurity and white collar, while providing a wealth of experience through its complex litigation, intellectual property, tax, regulatory and transactional teams.

As our clients navigate business disruptions and work to ensure the protection of their employees in a rapidly changing environment, Locke Lord professionals are updating the Firm’s COVID-19 Resource Center daily with commonly asked questions and legal considerations.

We encourage you to bookmark and regularly visit our COVID-19 Resource Center for the most up-to-date information. You will also find access to key contacts at Locke Lord who can put you in touch with appropriate team members.

Boston Partner Richard Glovsky was featured on Radio Entrepreneurs discussing the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the United States for employers with 100 or more employees. Glovsky outlined obstacles to the mandate’s implementation, including states’ lawsuits to block it. He also commented on exemptions for individual employees, including the feasibility of accommodations.

“One determination that employers have to make is: Can the employee do the job remotely, or must the employee be in the workplace? If the employee is going to be in the workplace, then what is going to be required?” he said.

To listen to the full episode, click here.

Please note the podcast was recorded before the appeals court cases to which Glovsky refers were transferred to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.