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By Brooks Igo
Staff Writer for The Texas Lawbook
Fort-Worth based Cantey Hanger has added two labor and employment lawyers, Darrell Noga and Michael Merrick, from Fee, Smith, Sharp & Vitullo. Noga will be a partner and Merrick will be a senior associate in the firm’s Dallas office.
Noga, who has experience with a variety of defense work representing Texas municipalities, civil servants and corporate entities, anticipates being involved in more labor and employment related matters with private entities.
“I saw a better chance to cross-market and wanted the ‘full service’ knowledge and expertise of the firm as a resource for my governmental and corporate clients,” he said.
The Georgetown University School of Law graduate says that coping with erosion of “at will” doctrine by federal statutes and policy, addressing rapidly evolving employee privacy and social media issues, coping with new technological advances and addressing more aggressive union activity in Texas and surrounding areas are the most significant legal issues facing his clients.
Noga said one of the biggest and most memorable cases he has worked on was when he argued with the co-defendants’ counsel and won a case, IHS Cedars Treatment Center v. Mason, before the Supreme Court of Texas. It was the only time he has had the opportunity at oral argument before the state’s highest court.
Throughout his 29 years of practicing law, Noga said his biggest accomplishment has been continuing to remember and believe what it means to be a lawyer.
“I am in a profession, not a job, and have related standards to maintain,” he said.
Personally, he said his greatest accomplishments are his marriage (28 years on September 15) and being blessed with three wonderful children.
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