Best Lawyers Magazine highlights one attorney in various locations and practice areas who receives the highest number of votes from his or her peers in the specific location.

NAFUSA member Larry Finder was named the Lawyer of the Year in White Collar Criminal Defense in Houston.  Finder was US Attorney 1993 in the SD of Texas.  Finder is a partner at Baker McKenzie.  Larry has a general white collar practice involving criminal and civil investigations (including internal investigations and defense of government investigations), parallel proceedings, grand jury practice, and trial practice. He routinely handles matters relating to all types of fraud (civil and criminal), the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, anti-bribery, criminal environmental offenses, criminal immigration offenses, criminal food and drug offenses, and corporate compliance counseling. He has been retained in some high profile matters, including an engagement by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to investigate and litigate the judicial misconduct of a federal judge, which resulted in the judge’s impeachment by the House of Representatives and conviction in the Senate.

NAFUSA member and former board member Richard Roper was named the Lawyer of the Year in White Collar Criminal Defense in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.  Roper served as US Attorney from 2004-2009 in the ND of Texas.  Roper is a partner at Holland & Knight where he focuses his litigation practice on white collar criminal defense, government investigations, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement and commercial litigation. His practice also involves directing internal corporate investigations and representation in qui tam litigation, antitrust matters, environmental criminal matters and complex immigration matters.