Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP- press_release -
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Published on: 7/21/2003
Last Visited: 2/14/2008
(Houston, Texas) - Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced today that prominent Houston employment lawyers Fraser A. McAlpine and Holly H. Williamson have joined the firm's national labor and employment practice as partners.
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Previously, Mr. McAlpine and Ms. Williamson were partners at Andrews & Kurth.
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During her 17 years of practice, Holly Williamson has served as primary regional employment counsel to many Houston- and Texas-based corporations, particularly in the chemical; transportation; oil and gas production, retailing and servicing; and telecommunications industries.She frequently appears in Texas and Louisiana state and federal trial and appellate courts representing companies throughout the states of Texas and Louisiana in complex litigation involving trade secrets, unfair competition, discrimination and harassment claims, and wage and hour issues.She was appointed to the board of the Texas Board on Aging in 1995 by then-Governor George W. Bush, serving on the board's finance committee.She has served as co-chair of the Candidate and Recruitment Committee of the R Club and on the Advisory Committee of the Houston Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section.After graduating magna cum laude from the South Texas College of Law, Ms. Williamson clerked for the Honorable Edith Hollan Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.
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Ms. Williamson is a fellow in the Texas and Houston Bar Foundations.
Mr. McAlpine and Ms. Williamson stated, "We are delighted to be joining such an outstanding firm.