Three Haynes Boone Dallas-based lawyers are featured as Best Lawyers Under 40 in D Magazine’s 2024 directory: Partners Raquel O. Alvarenga and Brent Beckert and Associate Kristina A. Pierre-Louis. The listing recognizes outstanding young lawyers in North Texas.
D Magazine compiles the list of Best Lawyers Under 40 by asking lawyers with a valid Texas Bar number to nominate up to two lawyers outside their firm and one within, keeping the following question in mind: “Which lawyers under 40 of those whose work you have witnessed firsthand, would you rank among the current best?” After submissions are tallied, a panel of esteemed lawyers works with the magazine’s editors to evaluate the nominees and determine winners.
Read more about Haynes Boone’s ranked attorneys below:
Raquel Alvarenga, Third Year Named | Labor & Employment
Raquel is the chair of the firm's Labor and Employment Practice Group. She has a full-service labor and employment practice that includes negotiating the employment aspects of complex M&A deals and other business transactions, counseling corporate clients on workforce issues, and litigating all manner of labor and employment disputes, including restrictive covenant matters involving noncompetition, non-solicitation and trade-secret claims, and cases involving alleged discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, , and breach-of-contract claims.
Brent Beckert, Second Year Named | Mergers and Acquisitions
Brent is a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Practice Groups. He focuses on private and public M&A, venture capital raises, and other complex domestic and international transactions for clients in a variety of industries, including the healthcare, technology, education, manufacturing, defense, insurance, and professional services sectors. He also helps clients procure and negotiate coverage under representation and warranty insurance policies in the context of M&A transactions.
Kristina A. Pierre-Louis, First Year Named | Litigation
Kristina is an associate in the Litigation Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s Dallas office. Her practice focuses primarily on commercial litigation. Kristina is also experienced in complex litigation involving insurance litigation, with a focus on health, life, and disability insurance litigation and payor/provider disputes, toxic exposures, product liability, and premises liability. Kristina received her law degree from Penn State Law, where she served as the justice of the William Penn Chapter of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International and a clinical fellow in the Family Law Clinic. She received her undergraduate degree in international business from Pepperdine University while working at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
