Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. (Munsch Hardt), a commercial law firm with more than 110 attorneys and offices in Dallas, Houston and Austin, announces the firm has increased the size of their attorney staff by 3.5% in late June – early July with the addition of four attorneys to the Corporate & Securities, Business Litigation and Insolvency, Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights practice groups. In addition to the attorney growth, Munsch Hardt added six staff positions, of which three were replacements and three were new additions.

Thomas Berghman joins the Insolvency, Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights practice group as an Associate. Berghman’s practice focuses on corporate restructuring and bankruptcy related litigation. Prior to joining Munsch Hardt, Thomas was a member of the litigation practice group in the Dallas office of another Texas-based firm. Previously, at the University of Illinois College of Law, Thomas was a member of the Law Review, where he won the award for Best Note, and served as the executive editor for the Jessup Moot Court Competition.

Kathryn H. Brady joins the Corporate & Securities practice group as an Associate. Brady’s practice focuses on family immigration, business immigration and immigration removal cases before the Executive Office of Immigration Review including family-based permanent residence petitions; U.S. work visas for professional workers; international personnel transfers, investment-based (E-2 & EB-5) petitions, removal defense, and appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Administrative Appeals Office and the Board of Alien Labor Certification.

Stephen Gibson joins the Business Litigation practice group as Senior Attorney. Gibson’s practice primarily focuses on providing guidance and analysis in contractual and extra-contractual liability insurance disputes and representing clients post-trial and on appeal. His experience in insurance matters includes advise and analysis of a wide spectrum of liability insurance policies including professional liability and director’s and officer’s liability insurance. He also has extensive experience in environmental liability coverage disputes.

His post-trial and appellate experience has been equally diverse. His appellate representation experience includes matters as varied as aviation, construction defect, eminent domain, insurance and other contract disputes, products liability, professional liability, and premises liability cases.  In addition to post-verdict and appellate representation, Gibson works closely with trial counsel in the formulation of strategic legal analysis that aids in shaping the issues that are presented to the trier of fact.

Michael W. Huddleston joins the Business Litigation practice group as Shareholder. Huddleston joins Munsch Hardt with nearly 30 years’ experience handling coverage and bad faith claims involving commercial and personal lines liability and first-party property insurance, directors and officers liability, reinsurance, fidelity and professional liability policies.

Huddleston also has extensive experience as an appellate attorney on a wide variety of insurance, commercial and personal injury disputes. He has numerous published landmark

decisions as appellate counsel, including Supreme Court cases such as, Federal Insurance Co. v. Samsung, Zurich Insurance Co. et al. v. Nokia, State Farm Fire & Cas. Insurance Co. v. Gandy, St. Paul Insurance Co. v. Convalescent Services, Inc., Reliance Insurance Co. v. McAfee Taft, and Argubright v. Beech Aircraft Corp.

Michael W. Huddleson and Stephen Gibson also bring Elizabeth Dueñas as executive legal secretary as part of their team to Munsch Hardt.

The addition of these four attorneys further demonstrates the Firm’s continual commitment to attract top-level talent and offer clients expertise in a broad range of commercial legal areas. The Munsch Hardt office in Dallas now includes 85 attorneys focused on full-service commercial legal needs.

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