GERMER is proud to be one of the top 50 law firms in the State of Texas. Established in 1994, the firm has grown to accommodate client demand and expanded its reach statewide with offices in Beaumont, Tyler, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. The firm now has more than a hundred principals and associates who serve their clients with a steadfast dedication to legal excellence, backed by impressive academic credentials and extensive practical experience. Over the years, thousands of individuals, businesses, and governmental entities have come to rely on GERMER for proven experience. The firm’s expertise extends across many diverse practice areas and many different forums. Comfortable in state and federal courtrooms throughout the state and beyond, the accomplished, experienced litigators in the firm have successfully handled a variety of matters including general tort, commercial, class action, product liability, construction, divorce, employment, healthcare, insurance, intellectual property, real property, personal injury, professional liability, pharmaceutical, premises liability, railroad and toxic tort litigation. Several of our principals fill statewide coordinating counsel roles for clients, as well as serve on national counsel litigation teams. With a number of attorney-engineers in its ranks, GERMER has successfully defended and prosecuted a number of high stakes patent infringement cases.

MehaffyWeber was founded in 1946 as a litigation firm. As our clients’ needs expanded, we evolved into a broad-based regional law firm still with a strong emphasis in litigation. Our trial lawyers practice in state and federal courts throughout Texas and other states, and our firm functions as regional counsel for several clients. Our clients benefit from an extensive offering of services that encompasses most of the traditional areas of civil law covering a wide range of business and professional issues. Our attorneys, located in offices in Houston, Beaumont, San Antonio, and Austin, Texas, handle the legal interests from Fortune 100 corporations, medium and small businesses, as well as individuals. An important service is to keep our clients informed of developments in the major fields of law. Today, we combine the traditional values upon which our firm was founded with an advanced and proactive approach to the practice of law. We understand and appreciate that not all cases, or client situations, are alike. We tailor our approaches to best suit the individual needs of the client. We are proud to have a long record of winning cases in tough jurisdictions, but we also know that not all cases need to be tried. We use legal motions and other means to achieve positive results pre-trial, and when appropriate, we work hand in hand with our clients to secure advantageous settlements.

PLAUCHE, SMITH & NIESET, LLC is a law practice company based out of 1123 PITHON STREET, LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, United States.

Our firm is the largest and one of the oldest law firms in Lake Charles. It provides legal services to individuals and to businesses of every size, in most areas of litigation and in all kinds of personal and business transactions, including those in industry, healthcare, insurance, construction and real estate. The firm as a whole and several of its members individually are listed in The Best Lawyers in America, and the Louisiana Super Lawyers. The firm also has licensed Texas attorneys on staff.

Provost Umphrey Law Firm, L.L.P. is one of the nation’s most successful plaintiff’s law firms. The firm represents clients in litigation ranging from toxic chemical exposures to large scale antitrust and consumer class actions. Provost Umphrey is one of the few firms in the United States that has the ability to represent its clients on either an individual or a class basis while providing the necessary resources to fund and staff the cases on a contingency basis. The firm has been recognized as a Best Law Firm in America by U.S. News & World Report every year since 2013. The firm’s client base has included an array of clients from workers to large municipal and state governments. For example, the firm served as lead counsel to the State of Texas in its landmark $23 billion recovery of damages from the Tobacco industry. On behalf of its clients, Provost Umphrey regularly records settlements and or verdicts in multi-million dollar range.

With safety at the forefront of our business, we employ highly skilled engineers, designers and support staff in-office and in-plant to deliver quality projects on time and on budget. S E R V I C E S *PROJECT DEVELOPMENT - P&ID Development / Process Design - Equipment Specifications - Discipline Level Conceptual Design & BOM Development - Project Cost Estimating – Front End Loading Studies - FEL 1 – Conceptual Design with ± 50% TIC Estimate - FEL 2 – Major Equipment with ± 30% TIC Estimate - FEL 3 – Conceptual Designs with ± 10% TIC Estimate - Project Schedule Development - Phased Scope Development *ENGINEERING & DESIGN - Process Engineering - Mechanical & Piping - Civil/Structural - Electrical/Instrumentation - Control Systems - Procurement - Project Controls - Estimating - Survey *IN-PLANT SOLUTIONS - Engineering & Design - Planners/Schedulers - Project Controls - Document Control - Procurement - Clerical - Project Managers - Construction Managers

I am responsible for about 50 entities. I typically work with small businesses with between $0 and $10 million gross receipts and typically less than 50 employees. In this role I had the following duties: prepare federal and state income tax returns for individuals, partnerships, trusts, and corporations. Prepare other reports to ensure compliance: sales tax reports, payroll reports, etcetera prepare compilations of annual and interim business and personal financial statements. Review current procedures and software with clients and suggest improvements. Research tax strategies and rules to ensure compliance and maximum tax savings. Consult with clients to review final output.

Polaris Engineering was formed in 1997 with the intent to provide small and mid-size oil and gas producers an alternative to the traditional facilities engineering project approach. Company principals Enrico N. Cappelletto, P.Eng. and David M. Curial, P.Eng. bring considerable experience from oil and gas producing companies, engineering, and manufacturing and take an active role in all aspects of the project cycle. Our business is evolving, and additional markets can now be serviced by Polaris including power generation, transmission and distribution, blockchain, municipal infrastructure, and produced water treatment and management. ​ With the recent addition of Alain Guerard, MBA to the Polaris team, our company is now able to provide the above services to new markets. His expertise and relationships in the high voltage power generation, transmission/distribution markets and international project experience combined with our engineering leadership enables Polaris to be effective in providing professional services to those markets. Additionally, Alain brings considerable expertise in all aspects of supply chain thus enabling Polaris to provide comprehensive support in procurement and contracts as well as international supply chain efforts. ​ Polaris Engineering is now supporting international markets by bringing Canadian EPC expertise and knowledge to other countries with growing needs for these skills and experience. Close collaboration with the client is encouraged during all phases of the project to ensure that the lines of communication are always open and that the project objectives are met. The assigned Project Manager will follow the project from start to completion to ensure continuity and eliminate costly and time consuming recycle. ​ A diverse group of professionals constantly evaluates new techniques and technologies to create successful projects. Our innovations are clearly reflected in past projects both completed and on-going.

Schaumburg & Polk, Inc. (SPI) was founded by George J. Schaumburg, P.E. in 1937, and has been providing uninterrupted engineering services since 1947. In May 1973 the firm was reorganized under the name Schaumburg & Polk, Inc. With offices in Beaumont, Garland (BW2), Houston, Port Arthur, Terrell, and Tyler, the firm provides professional civil engineering, program management and construction management services throughout the State of Texas. Our dedicated staff provides specialized expertise and integrated services for the public and private sector, for both large and small projects. As a full service engineering firm, our projects range from transportation, drainage facilities, water resources, wastewater facilities, to land development, regulatory issues, and surveying.

CAS provides efficient and highly competent skilled employees to compliment any staff. CAS’s management team has a combined total of 69 plus years of service in the petrochemical industry. Some of the major projects worked on include Low Sulfur Mo gas, Coker Safety Project, Cogen Regeneration unit, Flare Gas Project, Honeywell TDC2000 to TDC3000 Conversions and Honeywell TDC3000 to C300 Conversions. CAS’s provides trained personnel to meet the technical needs of industry from short term contracts to long term contracts. CAS provides efficient and highly competent employees that will meet a company’s requirements & compliment their existing staff. CAS‘s highly skilled professionals provide both the range of experience and repeated reliability that industry requires of today’s work force. CAS’s experts include Engineers, Managers, Supervisors, Advisors, Specialist and technicians for all areas of plant operations and start-ups including: • Engineering & Design • DCS Technicians projects / maintenance • PLC Technicians projects / maintenance • Computer IT Technicians • Computer Drafting • Planning & Scheduling • Pre-commissioning • QA /QC Inspection • Procedure Writing

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