Haynes and Boone

Areas of law practiced by Haynes Boone include Corporate/Securities, Banking & Finance, Energy, Real Estate, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Technology, Healthcare, and all aspects of Business Litigation.

Haynes Boone was founded in 1970 by just two partners: [https://www.haynesboone.com/people/boone-michael Michael Boone]and his Southern Methodist University professor Richard Haynes. Today it provides a full spectrum of legal services across multiple sectors, including energy, financial services, private equity and technology.

The firm was a trailblazer for hiring and promoting women attorneys before its peers. Nina Cortell joined the firm straight out of law school in 1976 and was the firm's 13th attorney. She founded the first diversity committee of Haynes Boone.

The firm began handling initial public offerings (IPOs) in the booming Dallas economy. To promote the firm and grow business outside of Dallas, Haynes Boone sponsored a series on the local public television station in 1984: “A Walk Through the 20th Century” hosted by Bill Moyers.

That same year, the firm opened a second office in Fort Worth followed by a third office in Austin two years later. Its San Antonio office opened in 1987, growing the firm to 166 lawyers. Haynes Boone expanded to Houston in 1990 to solidify its position as a Texas firm rather than just a Dallas firm.

The North American Free Trade Agreement was the impetus for the next expansion. In 1994, the firm opened its first two offices outside of Texas: a cross-border branch in Mexico City and an out of state branch in Washington, D.C. At that time, the firm had established seven offices and had over 300 lawyers, 30 of whom were international lawyers. The firm continued to grow coast to coast and internationally by adding offices in New York City in 2004, Orange County and Palo Alto in 2009, Shanghai in 2013, Chicago and Denver in 2015, London in 2016, the Woodlands in 2018, Charlotte in 2019, San Francisco in 2020 and Northern Virginia in 2023.

As of today, Haynes Boone has nearly 700 lawyers in 19 offices around the world. In 2024, Michael Boone was inducted into the prestigious Texas Business Hall of Fame.https://texasbusiness.org/2024-inductees/mike-boone/

According to [https://www.chambers.com Chambers], Haynes Boone consistently ranks among the best law firms in the world with dozens of attorneys ranked across the United States and U.K.

In 2024, The American Lawyer's revenue survey noted Haynes Boone had one of the largest jumps of any firm in the country, with a 16.51% revenue increase from the year prior.

In 2023, Who's Who Legal named Haynes Boone the Texas Firm of the Year and in 2024, it became the first American Lawyer 100 firm certified by Mental Health America, earning a Gold-level Bell Seal for Workplace Mental Health.

Haynes Boone represents many of the largest corporations in the world including Bank of America, Exxon, AT&T{{Cite web |title=Client win - ATT |url=https://www.haynesboone.com/news/press-releases/client-win---att |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=www.haynesboone.com |language=en}} and others. For decades, the firm has advised on investments for the Bass, Hunt, and Perot families as well as for Caroline Hunt, sister of Nelson and Bunker Hunt and an heiress of H.L. Hunt.

In 1993, won a $420 million case for Exxon in an insurance coverage case against Lloyd's of London over the Exxon Valdez tanker spill in Alaska.{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Kathryn |date=1993-10-10 |title=A Collision in Court on Exxon's Oil Spill |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/10/business/a-collision-in-court-on-exxon-s-oil-spill.html |access-date=2025-05-16 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |last=Paltrow |first=Scot J. |date=1993-09-01 |title=Insurers Sue Exxon to Avoid Paying Costs of Valdez Spill |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-09-01-fi-30065-story.html |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}

In 1997, negotiated a settlement for the Catholic Dioceses of Dallas involving sexual molestation charges and its priests.{{Cite web |last=Allison |first=By Wick |date=2010-06-23 |title=From 2010: Why the Catholic Diocese of Dallas Burned While Prelates in Rome Fiddled |url=https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2010/july/why-the-catholic-diocese-of-dallas-burned-while-prelates-in-rome-fiddled/ |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=D Magazine |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=George Bramblett RIP |url=https://www.haynesboone.com/news/press-releases/george-bramblett-rip |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=www.haynesboone.com |language=en}}

In 1997, oversaw negotiations for a client over a large liquid natural gas facility in mainland China.{{Citation needed|date=June 2025}}

In 1999, oversaw the merger between Exxon Corp and Mobile Oil Corp.{{Cite web |title=Exxon-Mobil Merger Creates the World's Second-Largest Company {{!}} EBSCO Research Starters |url=https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/politics-and-government/exxon-mobil-merger-creates-worlds-second-largest-company |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=www.ebsco.com |language=en}}

In 2001, led a constitutional challenge to Texas’ school finance system in West Orange-Cove C.I.S.D. v. Neeley which ultimately persuaded the Texas Supreme Court to strike down the state's school finance system.{{Cite web |title=NEELEY v. WEST ORANGE COVE CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (2007) |url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/tx-court-of-appeals/1158258.html |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=Findlaw |language=en-US}}

In 2011, negotiated AT&T Corp's agreement to buy the cell carrier T-Mobile USA.{{Cite web |title=Legal Ace in AT&T's Purchase, Sale of Time Warner Got Big Paycheck |url=https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2023/04/04/legal-ace-in-atts-purchase-sale-of-time-warner-got-big-paycheck/?slreturn=20241031131757 |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=Corporate Counsel |language=en}}

In 2016, defended Abbot Laboratories in a whistleblower case.{{Cite web |title=Abbott Whistleblower Seeks New Trial In $219M Stent Row - Law360 |url=https://www.law360.com/articles/793803/abbott-whistleblower-seeks-new-trial-in-219m-stent-row |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=www.law360.com |language=en}}

In 2017, obtained a reversal of a $663 million verdict in federal court for an employee who claimed his company had hidden the fact its highway guardrails did not meet federal standards.{{Cite web |title=Most Closely Watched Cases in Texas in 2017 |url=https://www.haynesboone.com/news/press-releases/most-closely-watched-cases-in-texas-in-2017 |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=www.haynesboone.com |language=en}}

In the summer of 2018, responded to the immigration crackdown on the South Texas border and represented many immigrant families in a monumental pro bono undertaking.{{Cite web |title=Media Coverage for Asylum Due Process Fight |url=https://www.haynesboone.com/news/articles/media-coverage-for-asylum-due-process-fight |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=www.haynesboone.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Campos in TribTalk on Border Crisis |url=https://www.haynesboone.com/news/publications/campos-in-tribtalk-on-border-crisis |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=www.haynesboone.com |language=en}}

In 2019 and 2020, oversaw cases that upheld pension rule changes designed to preserve the liquidity of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension system.{{Cite web |title=Media Covers Win for Texas First Responder Pension Fund |url=https://www.haynesboone.com/news/articles/media-covers-win-for-texas-first-responder-pension-fund |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=www.haynesboone.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Haynes and Boone Represents Dallas Police and Fire Pension System Board |url=https://www.haynesboone.com/news/articles/haynes-and-boone-represents-dallas-police-and-fire-pension-system-board |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=www.haynesboone.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Texas Supreme Court Grants Review of Five Cases Handled by Haynes and Boone |url=https://www.haynesboone.com/news/press-releases/texas-supreme-court-grants-review-of-five-cases--handled-by-haynes-and-boone |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=www.haynesboone.com |language=en}}

In 2023, represented a coalition of news organizations seeking a release of records from the 2022 mass shooting in the City of Uvalde.{{Cite web |title=Haynes Boone Fights for Transparency in Uvalde |url=https://www.haynesboone.com/news/publications/haynes-boone-fights-for-transparency-in-uvalde |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=www.haynesboone.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=HB Texas Legislature |url=https://www.haynesboone.com/news/press-releases/hb-texas-legislature |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=www.haynesboone.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Haynes Boone Secures New Win for Open Records Access in Uvalde School Shooting Case |url=https://www.haynesboone.com/news/press-releases/haynes-boone-secures-new-win-for-open-records-access-in-uvalde-school-shooting-case |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=www.haynesboone.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Haynes Boone Argues for Uvalde Transparency as New Texas Appeals Court Holds First Hearings |url=https://www.haynesboone.com/news/press-releases/haynes-boone-argues-for-uvalde-transparency-as-new-texas-appeals-court-holds-first-hearings |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=www.haynesboone.com |language=en}}

Eric Johnson, Dallas Mayor

Salman Bhojani, U.S. Representative, Texas’ 92nd District

Don Willett, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge, 5th Circuit

Leigha Simonton, U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Texas

Jeremy Kernodle, U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of Texas

Wendy Davis, U.S. Senator, Texas’ 10th District

Will O’Neill, Mayor, Newport Beach

Jason Villalba, U.S. Representative, Texas’ 114th District

David Crump, American legal scholar and writer

David Epstein, American Law Professor, University of Richmond School of Law

Sarah Saldana, Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Lynne Liberato, First President of the Houston Bar Association and former head of the State Bar of Texas

[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9123693/ Lisa Normand], Film Producer

Heidi Bundren, Chief Legal Officer, [https://www.nhl.com/predators/ Nashville Predators]

Richard Haynes received the Justinian Award for Public Service in 1989 in recognition of his ongoing service to the Dallas community. Co-founder, Mike Boone, was awarded the Robert S. Folsom Leadership Award for public service in 2012 and in 2019, the Highland Park Independent School District in Dallas named an elementary school after him, recognizing his continued support and contributions to public service for the Dallas public school. The school is now called Michael M. Boone Elementary School.{{Cite web |title=Michael M. Boone Elementary School |url=https://boone.hpisd.org/ |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=boone.hpisd.org}}

During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Haynes Boone lawyers and staff raised substantial funds for [https://www.feedingamerica.org Feeding America], local food banks, and frontline healthcare workers. In 2022, the attorneys at Haynes Boone contributed 11,652 hours towards pro bono efforts and expanded that work to 15,000 hours in 2023.

Each month, the firm staffs a clinic to provide help to those facing a range of legal issues and other pro bono matters through the [https://dallasvolunteerattorneyprogram.org/ Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program (DVAP)]. The DVAP recognized one of Haynes Boone's long-time employees as the 2022 Pro Bono Coordinator of the Year.

In July 2024, the firm hired its first ever Pro Bono Counsel to manage the pro bono efforts across its 19 offices.

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