Underwood Law Firm president Gavin Gadberry recently announced the addition of four new associate attorneys, according to a news release.

Gabrielle Bechyne, an Amarillo native, focuses primarily on Employment Law and School Law matters. She is a cum laude graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law, where she participated in the Civil Practice Clinic as a student attorney and served as a comment editor for Texas Tech Law’s award-winning Estate Planning and Community Property Law Journal.

Amarillo native Jarod Russell’s practice focuses on School Law and Municipal Law. He served as an educator for seven years and earned a master’s degree in educational leadership from West Texas A&M University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history and economics from The University of Texas at Austin and is a summa cum laude graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law. Russell served as an articles editor for the Texas Tech Law Review and was chaplain for the Christian Legal Society. During law school, Russell clerked for the Seventh Court of Appeals, working on both civil and criminal cases.

Jake Ware was born in Amarillo and raised in Wheeler. He attended Texas Tech University, where he graduated from the Texas Tech Honors College with a degree in Honors Arts and Letters. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Prior to joining Underwood, Ware worked as a law clerk at the Office of General Counsel to the Board of Regents at the University of Oklahoma....

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