Baker & Hostetler partner dead in apparent suicide

Police have determined that the death of John Mason Mings last week on a beach in Galveston, Texas, was an apparent suicide. Mings, partner in the Houston office of Baker & Hostetler, specialized in intellectual property and patent law. He joined Baker & Hostetler in December 2008 from Fulbright & Jaworski, where he was a partner and practiced for several years.