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DLA Piper recently added healthcare transactional partner K. Randolph Peak to its Dallas office. Peak was previously senior counsel at Perkins Coie. He focuses his practice on healthcare and life sciences
Charles Gibbs and two special counsel have joined Katten's Dallas office from Akin Gump.
The new Dallas office will be led by a Houston partner. It is the 215-lawyer firm’s second office in Texas and 23rd nationwide.
Appellate lawyer Greg White has joined the regional firm as of counsel.
Bart Turner is a former vice president of KBR, Inc.'s legal department.
Ratliff previously practiced at Shannon, Gracey, Ratliff & Miller, the law firm his father William D. Ratliff Jr. founded in 1938.
The law students – which represent the law schools at Harvard, the University of Texas, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley – will work as summer associates at Baker Botts and receive scholarship funds.
Scott Marrs, who is based in Houston, focuses on legal issues in the energy sector.
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Lang-Miers practiced at the firm for nearly 30 decades before being appointed to the Dallas Court of Appeals in 2003.
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