T&K Announces 2016 Management Committee
Mark Sloan, the recently-elected managing partner, will lead the nine-member committee.
T&K Announces 2016 Management Committee
Mark Sloan, the recently-elected managing partner, will lead the nine-member committee.
A Glimmer of Hope for the Energy Industry? Navigating Your Way Out of the Overtime Abyss
It is no secret that the energy industry has been ravaged. If $30-per-barrel oil was not bad enough, KRCL Directors AJ Johnson and Robert Rickman say energy companies have another woe to add to the list - opportunistic plaintiff’s attorneys that have focused their crosshairs squarely on oilfield pay practices. The exposure can be colossal, bu Johnson and Rickman say there are some powerful arrows that oil and gas companies can put in their quivers to combat the slew of lawsuits being filed.
Texas Law Firms Exporting their M&A Expertise
M&A data shows that large Texas-based law firms hemorrhaged talent and long-time, local clients to elite national firms that set up new outposts in Dallas and Houston during the past six years. The same data also indicates that some of the legacy Texas firms - Akin Gump, Baker Botts, Bracewell and V&E - are increasingly exporting their expertise in oil and gas law to energy companies and private equity firms headquartered beyond the state’s borders. “The Texas legal market is maturing before our eyes,” says law firm consultant Ward Bower.
Sidley Advises in $175M Well Development Joint Venture
Pennsylvania-based Rex Energy said earlier this week that it will join forces with New York investment firm Benefit Street Partners to develop 48 wells in Rex Energy’s Moraine East and Warrior North operated areas.
T&K Names Seven New Partners in Texas
The Texas lawyers in the new partner class are Steven Bartz, Justin Cohen, Katie Coleman, Janelle Davis, Dan Hopper, Kurt Summers and Robert Vartabedian.
T&K Names Seven New Partners in Texas
The Texas lawyers in the new partner class are Steven Bartz, Justin Cohen, Katie Coleman, Janelle Davis, Dan Hopper, Kurt Summers and Robert Vartabedian.
South Texas College of Law Receives $1.3 Million Gift
The law school said in a press release that it will use Richard Anderson’s investment to provide “meaningful scholarship support to the most promising second-year students to reward their first-year achievements and to help relieve their debt burden.”
Mark Lanier Receives 2016 Texas Tech Distinguished Alumni Award
The Houston trial lawyer earned his law degree from Texas Tech in 1984 and currently serves on the law school’s Foundation board of directors.
Deans & Lyons Promotes Chris Simmons to Partner
Simmons joined the Dallas-based trial boutique in 2014.
Deans & Lyons Promotes Chris Simmons to Partner
Simmons joined the Dallas-based trial boutique in 2014.
Fox Rothschild Dallas Managing Partner Clint David Appointed to AiRS Foundation Board
The AiRS Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to providing women access to options and funding for breast reconstruction surgery after mastectomies due to breast cancer.