Alan York is a partner in Reed Smith’s Appellate Group. Alan has been involved in appellate law since the inception of his legal career, serving from 1989 to 1990 as briefing attorney to Justice Sam Robertson on the Fourteenth Court of Appeals. Since that time, Alan has maintained an active involvement in appellate bar activities, serving as chair of the Houston Bar Association Appellate Practice Section, and as a council member of the State Bar of Texas Appellate Practice Section. He has also served as a judicial liaison between these bar sections and the judiciary, and has co-authored and co-presented numerous CLE topics with members of the appellate judiciary. Alan is also the global chair of Reed Smith’s LGBT+ Business Inclusion Group, PRISM (Pride, Respect, and Inclusion Simply Matter). In that role, Alan has worked closely with organizations such as TLDEF and Lambda Legal to support their important work for our communities. Alan is board certified in civil appellate law, and provides pre-trial and trial strategy and support and error preservation, as well as appellate briefing and argument on significant civil cases. In addition to his appellate docket, Alan is actively involved in trial practice, and served as one of the lead litigation and appellate counsel for Halliburton in civil claims and investigations arising from the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, one of the largest environmental litigation matters in U.S. history. Alan has been selected multiple times to the The Best Lawyers in America© list; is a six-time recipient of Thomson Reuters’ Top 100 Lawyers in Houston honors; was named one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Texas in 2016, 2017 and 2018; has been selected more than 15 years to the Texas Super Lawyers list; and has been recognized nine times among H Texas Magazine’s Top Lawyers in Houston. He is AV-rated “Preeminent” by Martindale-Hubbell, its highest ranking for ethics and legal ability. Alan received a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center in 1989 and a B.B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Houston in 1986.