Former Akin Gump Senior Counsel Jumps to Consulting Firm
Duff & Phelps announced this week that it has tapped Dallas lawyer Adam August to be a director in its Compliance and Regulatory Consulting practice.
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Duff & Phelps announced this week that it has tapped Dallas lawyer Adam August to be a director in its Compliance and Regulatory Consulting practice.
Alumni of the Texas appellate courts in Dallas and Houston are on the move.
Shook, Hardy & Bacon announced this month that 12 attorneys have been elevated to partner firmwide.
Liberato is the third Haynes and Boone appellate lawyer to win the award in the last five years.
Jennifer Adams, the former chief counsel of litigation for Koch Companies Public Sector, has made the move back to private practice.
Patricia Tomasco, who was previously at Jackson Walker, has joined Quinn Emanuel in Houston.
Hedrick Kring has recruited former T&K partner Katharine Battai Clark to the firm.
Jonathan Bull, a former EPA attorney, has joined Jackson Walker’s Dallas office as a partner.
David Beck and Alex B. Roberts have won the Texas Bar Foundation 2019 Outstanding Law Review Article Award.
Roger Townsend and Austin lawyer Dana Livingston have left Alexander Dubose Jefferson & Townsend for Cokinos Young.
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