Squire Patton Boggs Adds Texas Trial Lawyer Dan Cogdell
Texas trial lawyer Dan Cogdell has joined Squire Patton Boggs’ Houston office as partner in its Litigation and Government Investigations & White-Collar practices.
The firm said Cogdell has served as lead counsel in nearly 300 jury trials in more than 16 states. Some of his best-known cases include winning not guilty verdicts in the Enron scandal, the Branch Davidian trial, and in the trial of controversial cancer physician Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski. In 2015, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton hired Cogdell to lead his defense team in fighting a felony indictment. Mr. Cogdell currently represents a broad array of clients in both state and federal court matters throughout Texas and the U.S.
In 2008, the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association named him White-Collar Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year. In 2011, he became one of the youngest criminal defense lawyers to be admitted as a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers legal association. In 2014 he was honored as an Alumni of The Year by his law school alma mater, South Texas College of Law in Houston. In 2016, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Lawyer. Cogdell also has regularly made the lists of peer-review legal guides such as Best Lawyers in America and Texas Super Lawyers for the past 20-plus years, the firm said.
