Hays McConn Announces New Shareholder 

The Houston-based law firm of Hays, McConn, Rice & Pickering, P.C. is pleased to announce that Jane Lea Haas, who has been an associate with the firm since 2003, will assume a position as shareholder effective January 1, 2009.  Ms. Haas is a 2001 graduate of South Texas College of Law and practices a wide variety of civil litigation, primarily in the area of personal injury and construction defect defense.

Ms. Haas has also been named a member of the Board of Directors of the Texas Association of Defense Counsel ("T.A.D.C.")  T.A.D.C. is a statewide professional association of personal injury defense, civil trial, and commercial litigation attorneys.