- Criminal DefenseOften our efforts result in well-deserved recognition. A team of Haynes and Boone lawyers received the 2008 W. Frank Newton Award for outstanding pro bono effort after a seven-year fight to free two indigent Mexican nationals wrongly convicted and sentenced to life for murder. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered that both defendants be given new trials, and a grand jury declined to indict them, setting both free after 12 years in prison. In 2010, the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program (DVAP) presented the Dallas Office of Haynes and Boone, LLP with the Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year Award for donating about 1,500 hours of pro bono services to DVAP clients. The next year, DVAP honored the firm with its Gold Award for Pro Bono Service when 122 Haynes and Boone lawyers and staff volunteers worked a total of 2,003 hours on pro bono matters referred to the firm by DVAP.
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- Corporate LawThe firm also participates in the New York City Bar Diversity Fellowship Program, which is available to all underrepresented populations in the field of law. The goal of the Fellowship Program is to offer first-year students from underrepresented populations a unique summer employment opportunity in outstanding law firms and corporate law departments
- Mergers and AcquisitionsBill focuses on strategic M&A, private equity, securities, corporate, and technology law. His experience includes mergers and acquisitions, carve-outs and divestitures, roll-ups, strategic alliances and collaborative transactions, corporate governance, capital formation (equity and debt), and technology/commercial contracting.
- Business TransactionsAt Haynes Boone we believe that a meaningful professional career is much more than just handling major business transactions or trying complex lawsuits. Our lawyers actively use the law for helping those people and organizations who need it most but are least able to pay. We are committed to supporting such opportunities for pro bono service and believe this kind of leadership is the right thing to do.
- Intellectual Property