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Latham’s Gamechanging 15 Years in Texas: How The Firm’s Houston Office Wrote the Playbook for National Firms to Storm the State

The Houston office of Latham & Watkins wasn’t a year old by the time Ryan Maierson came to his epiphany.

The Latham office opened in February 2010. But as the year played out, he remembers marveling alongside the other partners at Baker Botts at the surprising ease with which this “non-native” firm from Los Angeles folded itself into the provincial pool of Texas transactional law.

Allen Pusey

Allen Pusey is a senior editor and writer at The Texas Lawbook.

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