Cox Smith Matthews Incorporated ("Cox Smith") is the leading San Antonio commercial law firm with expertise ranging from sophisticated corporate transactions to complex litigation to personal estate planning. Cox & Smith Incorporated and the San Antonio lawyers of Matthews and Branscomb combined in 2004 to create the largest and most established law firm in South Texas. Headquartered in San Antonio with offices in Austin, Dallas and McAllen, the Firm employs 130 attorneys with diverse experience in 17 primary practice areas and more than 25 areas of specialization. Seasoned attorneys with more than 30 years of courtroom and boardroom experience provide counsel on matters at the forefront of legal theory. This depth of experience enables Cox Smith to deliver exceptional legal services to regional, national and international clients. CLIENT COMMITMENT With client relationships spanning decades, Cox Smith tradition of customer service is unparalleled. Our unique practice of building cross-disciplinary teams to provide strategic counsel on complex legal issues sets us apart from other law firms. Maintaining a seamless team for clients while providing expert counsel across the legal spectrum is an unwavering commitment at Cox Smith. We are personally committed to serving clients with integrity, professionalism, insight and innovative legal strategies. Your team will be led by a Firm shareholder and will remain consistent in its members and dedication to your goals. This tradition is exemplified by the long-term partnerships we have with our clients and ensures that you receive individualized treatment in tandem with impeccable legal counsel. COMMUNITY COMMITMENT In addition to knowing our clients on a professional level, Cox Smith is dedicated to actively participating with them to grow and strengthen the community. We are dedicated to improving the quality of life in the communities in which we work and live; every year, our employees contribute thousands of volunteer service hours to non-profit organizations in the San Antonio and South Texas areas. In 2003, we volunteered our personal and professional expertise to more than 100 community organizations, donating in excess of 10,000 hours of service. Cox Smith's dedication to community service was recently honored with the prestigious President’s Award from the San Antonio Bar Association, which recognizes an individual or group that has exhibited outstanding service to the community. This marked the first time in the award’s history that it has been bestowed upon a law firm. COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY We believe that diversity enhances our firm and our community. We directly benefit from having attorneys and other legal professionals from a wide spectrum of cultural backgrounds. According to the Annual Report on the Status of Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the State Bar of Texas (2006-2007), 6.5 percent of Texas Bar members are Hispanic/Latino. Currently at Cox Smith, 10 percent of our attorneys are Hispanic/Latino and nearly 35 percent of our attorneys are women and/or minorities. Cox Smith has adopted a unified approach to minority recruiting, hiring, retention and promotion. Our Recruiting Committee openly discusses minority recruiting, and implements specific plans tailored to accelerate our minority hiring. We lead by example, with a Hiring Shareholder of Mexican-American descent. Additionally, Cox Smith annually attends minority recruiting fairs to identify, interview and recruit minority students for our summer program. We remain a very consistent on-campus recruiter at St. Mary's University Law School and the University of Texas School of Law, both of which were recently ranked by Hispanic Business Magazine in the top five law schools in the nation for Hispanic students. The results of this leadership effort are shown by the dramatic increase in summer associate and new associate employment throughout the late 1990s and early part of the 2000s. By way of example, over the past seven years our summer associate program has averaged a composition of 30 percent minority students and 50 percent female students. Our commitment to diversity remains strong throughout an attorney’s development at Cox Smith. All employees are considered for all positions without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status or disability. GLOBAL REACH The Firm regularly assists clients throughout Texas, the nation and worldwide. Our clients can be provided legal representation by local counsel in jurisdictions around the world. This expertise at the local, national and global levels, allows us to deliver seamless solutions to our clients. Our firm is a member of Lawyers Associated Worldwide (LAW), an association of more than 70 independent law firms located in over 80 major commercial centers throughout the world. 
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