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”The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” – Thomas Carlyle

Steve Brook, the Firm’s Managing Shareholder, along with his wife, Mary, will be honored at the 2018 San Antonio Business Journal’s Corporate, Philanthropy and Nonprofit Awards on Thursday, November 15th at the Pearl Stable. Steve and Mary are dedicated supporters of The Blood and Tissue Center Foundation at BioBridge Global.

Join Langley & Banack for a screening of “Be The One,” a short documentary produced by the State of Texas Attorney General’s office and filmed in Texas. The film cuts through the confusion and arms viewers with an understanding of what human trafficking is and is not.

Congratulations to Shareholder Marc Schnall on his selection as a 2018 San Antonio Business Journal Outstanding Lawyer. Marc’s hard work and dedication to his clients is what makes him an outstanding real estate lawyer and we are proud to have him as part of our team.

Shareholders Lucretia Marmor and Skip Good were named top personal injury attorneys in San Antonio Scene. Ms. Marmor was named to the top defense attorneys list and Mr. Good to the top plaintiffs. We are proud to have them as part of our team.

Langley & Banack attorneys represented 13 practice areas in the 2019 edition of Best Lawyers in America.

Erica Valladares and Natalie Wilson presented “Legal Basics for Every Business” to the entrepreneurs enrolled in LaunchSA’s ImpulSA program.

Real Estate shareholder Marc J. Schnall was named a 2018 Outstanding Lawyer by the San Antonio Business Journal. Mr. Schnall joins a distinguished group of 2018 honorees, as well as numerous Langley & Banack shareholders who have received the award in years past. Congratulations, Marc!

Langley & Banack is proud to announce that Buddy Banack, Art Bayern, Mike Boyle, Steve Brook, Steve Browne, Sylvia Cardona, David Gragg, Andrew Himoff, Roger Kirstein, Jo Chris Lopez, Lucretia Marmor, Joyce Moore, Rob Ramsey, Bill Sommers, Bruce Spindler and Kristal Thomson have been named 2018 Texas Super Lawyers as published by Thomson Reuters.

Our litigation team successfully defended a $200 million dollar civil claim against construction client Anderson Columbia Co., Inc. The verdict for the two and one-half week case in Maverick County found no liability on Anderson Columbia and found the company in full compliance of TXDOT’s Traffic Control Plan.

Colleagues and friends gathered to celebrate Cathy Stone’s Women’s Leadership Award on Thursday, August 23rd at the Pearl Stable.

On Wednesday, August 8, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations that would implement the new 20% qualified business income deduction for S corporation shareholders. This new deduction was created by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017 as an attempt to level the playing field for certain pass-throughs such as S corporations with respect to the reduction in the federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%.