Newsmakers: Five Texas attorneys become partners in Fulbright & Jaworski

Fulbright & Jaworski announced Jan. 31 the promotion of eight of its attorneys, including five in Texas, to the partnership.

Brett Young, Amber Ervin, Tamarah Feigl and Melanie Rother are new partners in Fulbright’s Houston office. Bert Greene is a new partner in Fulbright in Austin.

Young (pictured) says he clerked for Fulbright in summer 2002 and joined the firm in August 2003 shortly after graduating with honors from the University of Houston Law Center. He has a litigation practice.

“I do mostly big-ticket tort litigation,” Young says.

Ervin (pictured) says she joined Fulbright in September 2003 after she received her J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School. She has a corporate practice.

“I do primarily mergers and acquisitions, working mostly in the private equity realm,” Ervin says.

Feigl (pictured), a 2000 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, says she joined Fulbright in 2008 after working as an associate in Winstead’s Houston office. Her practice focuses on real estate transactions.

Feigl says she handles commercial acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and secured financing. “I do a lot with corporate M&A and private equity,” she says.

Rother (pictured) says she joined Fulbright in 2003 after graduating summa cum laude from South Texas College of Law. She says she clerked for Fulbright in summer 2002.

“My primary practice has been litigation,” Rother says. “For the most part I have defended, but I represent plaintiffs as well.”

She says she handles commercial and business litigation, including breach of contract cases, fraudulent matters and misrepresentations in contracts.

Greene (pictured) says he joined the firm in September 2004 after graduating earlier that year from the University of Texas School of Law. He has an intellectual property and technology-based litigation practice.

“I work primarily in patent litigation,” Greene says, noting that he also handles technology-related litigation in general.

— Mary Alice Robbins

Robbins is an Austin-based freelance writer and a former Texas Lawyer senior reporter.