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Leading Commercial Litigators Join King & Spalding in Austin
| Source: King & Spalding
AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - October 5, 2009) - King & Spalding, a leading international law
firm, announced today that two experienced complex commercial litigators,
Geoffrey R. Unger and Juan M. Alcalá, have joined the firm's business
litigation practice as partners in the Austin office. Both lawyers will
draw on their expertise to advise clients on a variety of disputes related
to business transactions, organizational structures, financial liabilities
and involved lending transactions.
"In this turbulent economic environment, companies are increasingly
confronted by contentious issues with potentially serious consequences to
their business," said Robert E. Meadows, managing partner of King &
Spalding's Houston and Austin offices. "We're thrilled to welcome seasoned
litigators like Geoff and Juan to deepen our commercial litigation
practice."
Unger and Alcalá join from DLA Piper.
Geoffrey R. Unger's practice is primarily focused on complex commercial
litigation, with experience representing clients in large business fraud
cases, consumer class actions, securities litigation, real estate
development, and antitrust cases. He has also defended and prosecuted more
than two dozen cases involving misappropriation of trade secrets and
noncompetition clauses in employment agreements.
Unger has successfully defended companies against claims controlled by the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and represented companies
and their officers and directors in shareholder litigation and derivative
suits throughout the country. His securities litigation experience also
includes "backdating" option scheme cases in Texas and nationally. With
trial experience in federal and state courts in Abilene, Austin, Dallas,
Houston and San Antonio, Unger has represented insurance companies, other
public companies, individuals and venture capital-backed startups.
He received a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, and a B.A.,
magna cum laude, from Trinity University.
Juan M. Alcalá is a litigator and trial lawyer who handles a wide range of
complex business disputes for local, national and international clients in
state and federal courts, at both the trial and appellate levels, in the
areas of business torts, partnership conflicts, copyright and trademark
disputes, misappropriation of trade secret cases, deceptive trade practices
controversies and fiduciary litigation. He also has extensive product
liability experience involving medical devices and automotive products.
Fluent in Spanish, Alcalá also concentrates his practice on Latin American
matters, representing Latin American clients with business needs in the
United States and Europe and assisting American and European clients with
business needs in Latin America.
He earned a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, and a B.A.
from Yale University.
King & Spalding's business litigation practice is recognized nationally and
internationally as one of the best. The firm's litigators are noted for
their trial skills, and they have handled hundreds of high-stakes class
actions in federal and state courts across the United States. Seventeen
King & Spalding partners, including five retirees, are fellows of the
American College of Trial Lawyers. The firm has been named twice as one of
the top defense firms in the nation in The National Law Journal's Defense
Hot List and chosen three consecutive times as one of the top U.S.
litigation firms in The American Lawyer's biennial Litigation Department of
the Year survey.
About King & Spalding
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Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Dubai, Frankfurt, Houston, London,
New York, Paris, Riyadh (affiliated office), San Francisco, Silicon Valley
and Washington, D.C. The firm represents half of the Fortune 100 and in
Corporate Counsel surveys consistently has been among the top firms
representing Fortune 250 companies. For additional information, visit
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