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The grant will help launch a program, set to launch this fall, that seeks to create a pipeline of socially conscious lawyers that are well equipped to launch a financially sustainable solo or small firm practice that caters to a lower income clientele.
London law firm Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) recently announced that Houston energy partner Fernando Cano-Lasa has joined the firm from Squire Patton Boggs. Cano-Lasa, who specializes in transactional work in
Prior to joining Shearman, Lucky McDowell practiced for his entire 17-year career at Baker Botts.
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.
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