Jackson Walker partner Chip Babcock was recently named a winner of Texas Lawyer‘s 2015 Professional Excellence Award: Lifetime Achievers. The award recognizes lawyers who have made their mark on the legal profession in the Lone Star State.

According to Texas Lawyer, “All of the honorees have had, or continue to have, extraordinary careers. The bottom line: They are all impact players in the Texas legal community.”

Chip is a First Amendment lawyer and trial and appellate attorney who has handled many high-profile litigation matters including more than 100 jury cases. Over the course of his career, he has represented a myriad of Fortune 500 clients, both as plaintiffs and defendants. In addition to the most recent recognition by Texas Lawyer, Chip was named a 2015 Trial Ace by Law360, was selected as one of the “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter-Century” by Texas Lawyer in 2010, was named a Texas Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers magazine and is listed in Best Lawyers 2015 and Martindale-Hubbard Peer Review Rated Preeminent™. Chip is additionally ranked as a top First Amendment lawyer, commercial litigator, and trial attorney, and one of America’s leading lawyers for business in Chambers & Partners. Chip earned his A.B. from Brown University and his J.D. from Boston University School of Law.

For more information, view the Law360 article “Trial Ace: Jackson Walker’s Chip Babcock.”