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KELLY HART & HALLMAN LLP
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Kelly Hart & Hallman attorney Mark L. Hart, Jr. awarded The University of Texas School of Law’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Fort Worth, Texas (March 9, 2010) – Kelly Hart & Hallman is pleased to announce that Mark L. Hart, Jr. has been awarded The University of Texas School of Law’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2010. The Lifetime Achievement award, bestowed by the University of Texas School of Law Alumni Association, honors an alumnus who has had a distinguished legal career and who has brought honor to The University of Texas School of Law through his or her service to the legal profession and to society. The award recognizes the alumnus who epitomizes the highest goals and traditions of the profession: diligence, discernment, integrity and a commitment to the betterment of our civic life.

“We are proud of Mark’s achievement,” said Dee J. Kelly, a founding partner, “Under Mark’s leadership, Kelly Hart & Hallman grew into one of the most prestigious and well-respected firms in the Southwest.”

Hart, a founding partner of Kelly Hart & Hallman, LLP, served as Managing Partner from the firm’s inception until December 2005. Hart has over 41 years of experience in corporate and securities law, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, leveraged acquisition, and re-capitalization, securities offerings, financings and joint ventures and partnerships. He has been listed continuously in the publication The Best Lawyers in America® in corporate practice area for the past twenty years, and has been named to Texas Super Lawyers® in Business/Corporate Law since 2003.

He received his law degree in 1968 with honors from the University of Texas Law School, where he served as Associate Editor of the Texas Law Review. He received his B.B.A. from The University of Texas in 1965.

In addition to his professional career, Hart has served on the boards and as chair of Fort Worth Country Day School, the American Cancer Society, the Fort Worth Museum of Science & History and the University of Texas Law School Foundation.

In 2001, the UT School of Law announced the Mark L. Hart, Jr. Endowed Chair in Corporate and Securities Law.

About Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP
Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP is a limited liability partnership with more than one hundred twenty-five resident attorneys in its offices in Austin, Fort Worth and Houston.  Kelly Hart lists among its clients Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, individuals, foundations, investor groups, and governmental entities.  Areas of practice include administrative, appellate, banking and finance, public finance, business reorganization and bankruptcy, corporate and securities, energy, environmental, estate planning and probate, intellectual property and technology, labor and employment, litigation, nonprofit organizations, real estate, tax and United States and international transactions.  Kelly Hart & Hallman’s website can be found at: www.kellyhart.com.

For more information, please contact Vanessa A. Daley at 817-810-5433 or via e-mail at vanessa.daley@kellyhart.com.

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