Press Release

HOUSTON—Jones Walker is pleased to announce that Lara D. Pringle has joined the firm as an associate in the Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Ms. Pringle will practice from the firm's Houston office.

Prior to joining Jones Walker, Ms. Pringle worked in the Houston office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. as an associate in that firm's Litigation and Products Liability sections. Ms. Pringle's practice focuses on the areas of products liability, tort and mass tort, class action, pharmaceutical, industrial accident, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and general commercial litigation. She has represented global companies in FCPA investigations, pharmaceutical litigation, and wrongful death lawsuits, and has worked with expert witnesses in the medical field with regard to pharmaceutical litigation, wrongful death, and personal injury cases. Ms. Pringle also has jury trial experience prosecuting misdemeanor cases for the City of Houston.

In addition to her work in the areas of products liability and commercial litigation, Ms. Pringle worked for the office of the Secretary of Planning and Development for the Governor of Coahuila in Saltillo, Mexico, completing a comparative study of foreign investment in Mexico and working with U.S. companies to encourage investment in Mexico and China.

Ms. Pringle is a 2006 graduate of the Baylor University School of Law, where she received her juris doctor degree, cum laude, and served as Executive Editor of the Baylor Law Review and was a member of the Moot Court Team. Ms. Pringle received her Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance, cum laude, from Texas A&M University in 2003. At Texas A&M, she was a member of the Business Fellows Program, open to the top 1 percent of students in the Mays Business School.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère & Denègre L.L.P. (www.joneswalker.com) provides a comprehensive range of legal services to a national and international corporate client base through offices in Alabama, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.

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