Veteran Trial Lawyer Mary Goodrich Nix Joins Dallas Trial Boutique  

DALLAS – Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, one of the most recognized and respected trial boutiques in Texas, has announced that experienced trial attorney Mary Goodrich Nix has joined the firm as a partner. 

Nix has tried and arbitrated cases throughout Texas and across the United States and has managed nationwide legal teams for corporate clients with multistate operations. She also has frequently worked with international organizations to oversee the pursuit or defense of domestic disputes.

Nix has extensive experience in a wide variety of litigation matters affecting the employer-employee relationship and disputes between competitors. She also has experience managing corporate investigations. Her work frequently involves assisting companies in identifying protectable intellectual property and pursuing litigation to safeguard proprietary and trade secret information from theft and disclosure. She also frequently defends companies accused of violating non-compete, non-solicit, or non-disclosure agreements, or of stealing confidential information. 

Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Nix joins the firm from Holland & Knight, where she served as co-chair of the firm’s Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants Team. 

Nix earned her law degree from the University of Houston Law Center, and her undergraduate degree from Baylor University. For her complex commercial and employment litigation work, she was awarded the prestigious BTI Client Service All-Star Award in 2020, a distinction awarded by in-house counsel to less than 500 attorneys worldwide. Nix was one of only 11 attorneys in Dallas and 19 attorneys statewide who received this distinction.  

She was named a Best Lawyer in America in Employment Litigation in 2020 and 2021, and a Texas Super Lawyer every year since 2012. She was selected to serve on Sedona Conference’s Working Group 12 on Trade Secrets, and the 2021 Sedona Conference on Remote Case Management of IP Proceedings. She has held numerous professional leadership positions in her career, including with the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers, the Dallas Bar Association, the Dallas Women Lawyers Association, and the Patrick E. Higginbotham American Inn of Court.