Brooks Igo

Former Tenet Healthcare Assistant General Counsel George “Bill” Morrison has returned to Haynes and Boone to help lead the firm’s healthcare and life sciences practice group, the law firm announced Monday.

Mitchell, who jumped to H&K from Bracewell, serves as bond counsel and disclosure counsel for tax-exempt financings for cities, counties, state agencies and independent school districts.

Jackson Walker has bolstered its Dallas and Houston offices with the addition of three partners and one senior counsel across four practice areas.

The Indiana law firm has recruited attorneys from Crowe & Dunlevy, Kilpatrick Townsend and Winstead to add depth to its litigation and corporate practices.

Lane Cates, general counsel and chief compliance officer at Abeo Management Corporation, has been selected to chair the board of Equest, a Dallas equine therapy nonprofit.

Dallas intellectual property law firm Slater Matsil has recently named Landon Wiebusch to the partnership.

The New Orleans-based Jones Walker announced on Thursday that a group of 11 attorneys – headlined by Fowler Rodriguez founder George Fowler, III – have joined three of the firm’s offices. The sizeable lateral group includes Houston partners Luis Enrique Cuervo and Michael McCoy.

Jeffrey Zissa lateraled over from Akin Gump, where he practiced for more than a decade.

The Dallas firm announced the partner promotions on the heels of the news of the firm’s expansion to LA.

Lloyd Lim is one of 43 newly-elected partners, the largest new partner promotions class in the firm’s history.