Cokinos | Young Promotes Six Attorneys to Principal
Cokinos | Young is proud to announce the promotion of six exceptional attorneys in 2025. Abigail Chacon, Shannon Gatlin, Tres Gibbs, Derek Kammerlocher, Kevin Moczygemba and Amy Rauch have been elevated to Principal. These advancements reflect their dedication to their clients, commitment to the Firm, and unwavering pursuit of excellence in service.
“This year’s class of Principals represents the best of Cokinos | Young,” said founding partner Gregory Cokinos. “Their tireless dedication, exceptional skill, and leadership set the standard for our firm’s future.”
“Each of these attorneys embodies the values and vision of C|Y,” added founding partner Marc Young. “We are thrilled to celebrate their well-deserved success and look forward to seeing their continued impact on our clients and the legal profession.”
Please join us in congratulating these outstanding individuals on this important career achievement!
Abigail Chacon has defended General Contractors and Subcontractors involving construction defect matters throughout Central and South Texas. She’s also represented defendants regarding commercial disputes, personal injury, premises liability, and product liability matters. Abigail is experienced in all aspects of litigation in federal and state courts and arbitration. In her career, Abigail has gained extensive courtroom experience and successfully briefed, argued motions, and handled depositions and trial preparation.
Before moving to Austin, Texas, in 2020, Abigail practiced law in Edinburg, Texas as a Criminal Defense Attorney, representing clients in various cases ranging from misdemeanors to felonies.
Shannon Gatlin is the firm’s sole attorney Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Shannon began his legal career as a Briefing Attorney to Justice William J. Boyce of the Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston. Shannon has extensive experience briefing cases before state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels, including the United States Supreme Court.
Tres Gibbs focuses his litigation practice on complex business and construction disputes as well as bankruptcy matters and creditors’ rights. Tres has represented plaintiffs and defendants in state, federal, and bankruptcy court across Texas and in other states. Tres takes pride in understanding his clients’ business and personal needs, in addition to their legal ones, and develops practical and efficient solutions to meet them. Tres’s experience covers a wide variety of disputes in the construction, real estate, energy, financial, and corporate sectors.
Derek Kammerlocher has devoted his career and practice to serving as an advocate for clients in the construction industry, including developers, contractors, design professionals, material suppliers, and insurance companies involved in the construction process. Based on his knowledge of the industry and specific experience, Derek helps his clients achieve their dispute resolution goals in payment, contract, defect, and insurance disputes, as well as other areas that often impact the construction industry such as employment and personal injury disputes. Derek takes an individualized and tailored approach to each representation to ensure the satisfaction of each client’s specific goals.
Kevin Moczygemba helps clients in commercial litigation and in the defense of serious personal injury cases. He has extensive experience handling matters involving breach of contract, construction defect, fraud, and other business torts, mechanics liens, and personal injury. Kevin also has significant experience working with government contracts. After law school, he served as a Presidential Management Fellow with the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile System Center where he gained invaluable insights into the government’s contracting process. Kevin also served as an Assistant Attorney General with the Texas Attorney General’s Office where he brought cases against government contractors for fraud, kickbacks, and other regulatory violations.
Amy Rauch practice focuses primarily on insurance coverage issues. In that regard, she regularly provides insurance advice to clients in the construction industry, including contractors, owners, and subcontractors. This includes advising clients on insurance and indemnity provisions in contract documents at the outset of their projects to help them manage and transfer risk, as well as advising them in disputes with their insurance companies following a claim. She frequently leads the pursuit of defense and indemnity from additional insured carriers on behalf of general contractor and subcontractor clients and has successfully obtained a defense from one or more additional insured carriers for those clients in multiple construction defect and employee injury cases.
About Cokinos | Young
Cokinos | Young has led Texas construction and real estate law for over three decades. And today, our 100+ dedicated professionals operate coast to coast and proudly handle all aspects of construction law for owner/developers, project managers, general contractors, design professionals, subcontractors, sureties, and lenders. We provide both dispute resolution and transactional services to clients through all phases of commercial, industrial, pipeline, offshore, civil, and residential construction. Our reputation was built on relentless commitment to client service and the industries we serve, and that remains our primary driver. Dedicated. Resilient. Expertise. That’s Cokinos | Young. Learn more at cokinoslaw.com.