| 2000 | Kiwi Camara and Joe Sibley meet at Harvard Law School, become best friends, and start talking about practicing together one day. |
| 2004 – 2007 | Kiwi goes into academia, while Joe becomes a trial lawyer at a litigation boutique in Dallas. |
| 2007 – 2009 | Kiwi and Joe move to Houston and join an existing litigation boutique together. |
| February 20, 2009 | Camara & Sibley opens its doors for business. We have two partners, one associate, no staff, and no business. We lease temporary office space — a giant full-floor room with no interior walls — in a small building beside Rice University. Our first month is lunch and pitches. |
| 2009 | The "temporary" offices become permanent when construction on our intended offices next door drags to a halt. We put up interior walls and make do. Charlie Nesson, Kent Radford, Mike Wilson, and CeCe Cohen join the firm. We handle major cases for our first institutional client, the Quorum Group, and against the recording industry and Apple. We have our first class of two summer associates; they get to pull all nighters writing trial briefs for a trial in Minneapolis. We begin a series of catered client dinners where clients meet each other, interesting guests, and members of the firm over food and wine from talented Houston chefs. |
| 2010 | Camara & Sibley continues to grow, overflows the University Avenue offices, and takes over the first floor of Kiwi's house, two blocks away. Three more associates and a variety of staff members join the firm. Kent is elected partner and the firm's first presiding partner. We celebrate our one-year anniversary at Pepino's. Our collection of wacky art from talented students grows. We give up on our long-delayed offices and move into the 52nd floor of Williams Tower. Our analyst program launches to great success, saving clients hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawyer time. |
| 2011 | We celebrate our two-year anniversary at Cafe Rabelais with clients, potential clients, and friends. We formalize our specialties in antitrust, environmental, FCPA and trade, and intellectual property and launch a new corporate practice. Kevin Colby joins the firm. We continue to argue cases of national importance, particularly in antitrust and intellectual property, and obtain some groundbreaking rulings, including an order striking down statutory damages under the Copyright Act as unconstitutional. |
