HONORS & ACCOLADES
The 2024 edition of Chambers USA features Doug Alexander, Kirsten Castañeda, Kevin Dubose, Robert Dubose, Rachel Ekery, Charlie Frazier, Marcy Hogan Greer, Wallace B. Jefferson, and Amy Warr ranked in Texas Litigation: Appellate. ADJ is one of only three firms ranked in Band 1 in Texas Litigation: Appellate this year.
The 2025 edition of Best Lawyers in America lists 13 lawyers from ADJ in Appellate Practice: Alex Wilson Albright, Doug Alexander (Lawyer of the Year), Anna Baker, Bill Boyce, Kirsten Castañeda, Kevin Dubose, Robert Dubose, Rachel Ekery, Charlie Frazier, Marcy Hogan Greer, Wallace B. Jefferson, Melanie Plowman, and Amy Warr. In addition, Doug Alexander, Kevin Dubose and Marcy Hogan Greer are listed in Bet-the-Company Litigation, Kirsten M. Castañeda and Marcy Hogan Greer are listed in Commercial Litigation, and Hannah L. Roblyer is listed in Ones to Watch in Appellate Practice and Commercial Litigation.
Best Lawyers ranks ADJ as a National Tier 1 firm in Appellate practice in their 2025 “Best Law Firms” rankings. Additionally, the Austin, Houston, and Dallas are ranked Metropolitan Tier in Appellate Practice, with Austin also recognized in Tier 1 for Bet-the-Company Litigation and Commercial Litigation, Dallas recognized in Tier 2 for Commercial Litigation, and Houston recognized in Tier 2 for Bet-the-Company Litigation.
The 2024 edition of Texas Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters lists 12 lawyers from ADJ in Appellate Law: Alex Wilson Albright, Doug Alexander, Bill Boyce, Kirsten M. Castañeda, Kevin Dubose, Robert Dubose, Rachel Ekery, Charlie Frazier, Marcy Hogan Greer, Wallace B. Jefferson, Melanie Plowman, and Amy Warr. In addition, four ADJ lawyers made specific “Top” lists: Doug Alexander (Top 50 Central/West Texas; Top 100 Texas), Kevin Dubose (Top 100
Houston), and Marcy Hogan Greer (Top 50 Women; Top 50 Central/West Texas; Top 100 Texas), and Wallace B. Jefferson (Top 50 Central/West Texas).
Kirsten Castañeda has been selected to D Magazine’s “Best Lawyers in Dallas for 2024.”
Marcy Hogan Greer is the recipient of the 2024 Austin Bar Association and Austin Bar Foundation’s Distinguished Lawyer Award.
Kevin Dubose was the recipient of the 2023 Gregory S. Coleman Outstanding Appellate Lawyer Award from the Texas Bar Foundation. The award recipients exhibit an outstanding appellate practice while maintaining a strong commitment to providing legal services for the underserved. Marcy Hogan Greer was the award recipient in 2021.
Kevin Dubose was also the recipient of the 2023 Patrick A. Nester Outstanding Achievement in CLE Award, presented by the Texas Bar College. This award honors a Texas attorney for outstanding achievement in CLE as a course director, speaker, author, or creator of a new course.
ELECTED & APPOINTED POSITIONS
Wallace B. Jefferson was appointed by the Supreme Court of Texas to serve on the Texas Commission on Judicial Selection.
Alex Wilson Albright was recently reappointed to the Texas State Bar Pattern Jury Charge Oversight Committee and the Texas Supreme Court Rules Advisory Committee. She was appointed co-chair of the Supreme Court’s Judicial Bypass Rules Ad Hoc Committee, and, after the final rules were published, was invited to speak to the District & County Clerks and the District Judges about the new rules. Also, new editions of her Texas Civil Procedure casebook, TEXAS COURTS: A SURVEY (Imprimatur Press), and her HANDBOOK ON TEXAS DISCOVERY PRACTICE (West Texas Practice Series)(co-authored with Charles F. Herring Jr.) were published this year.
Marcy Hogan Greer was recently appointed to the Supreme Court of Texas’ Remote Proceedings Task Force and reappointed to the Texas Supreme Court Rules Advisory Committee.
Charlie Frazier was appointed Chair of the Appellate Law Section of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel.
