More than 25,000 top CEOs, GCs and other in-house counsel have begun receiving this year's roundup of top business attorneys as selected by Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition. Honorees are slected among lawyers nationwide who have already been singled out as Super Lawyers through peer nominations and review by a blue-ribbon panel of lawyers. Texas attorneys feature prominently on the list, including six from the Dallas, Austin and New York offices of McKool Smith, P.C., along with four attorneys from teh Dallas and Houston offices of Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP.

At McKool Smith, firm principals Doug Cawley, Ted Stevenson and Robert Manley of Dallas; Gordon White and Steve Pollinger of Austin; and Robert Cote of New York are included for their work in intellectual property litigation.

At Gardere, Dallas partners Kenneth R. Glaser, Andre M. Szuwalski and Peter S. Vogel were recognized for their intellectual property work, while Houston partner Jeffrey S. Davis was featured for his civil litigation defense work.