Cantey Hanger Adds Darrell Noga, Expands Labor & Employment Practice

© 2013 The Texas Lawbook.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…