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Kansas City business law firm Spencer Fane is combining with Tulsa-based Conner & Winters, which has more than 75 attorneys practicing from offices in Northwest Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, specializing in energy, construction, health care, litigation, finance, and other commercial matters.
Omar Samji, the Houston-based lawyer whose career in power and renewables spans more than two decades and six law firms, has left Weil for Gibson Dunn, the firm is announcing today.
Another two Dallas partners have joined their former Winston & Strawn colleagues at King & Spalding. Jeff Cole and Brian Jansen were named partners in the finance and restructuring practice group.
Elizabeth King joins Houston-based intellectual property boutique Heim, Payne & Chorush as of counsel. She will lead the firm’s expanded trademark litigation and appeals practice.
Phillip Ragler joins Dallas-based Hamilton Wingo as a partner as the firm continues to bolster its personal injury and wrongful death practice. Ragler was an assistant U.S. attorney in Florida before joining the firm.
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr formally announced Wednesday the firm’s expansion to Fort Worth with a seven-lawyer office to be housed in 5,787 square feet of scalable office space on Main Street.
O’Melveny & Myers announced this week that veteran capital markets advisor Doug Lionberger has joined the firm from Holland & Knight — the sixth partner to lateral to the firm’s Houston office in the last two years.
Pennsylvania law firm Chartwell Law continued its Texas expansion efforts by bolting on The Bassett Firm, known for transportation and trucking litigation. Mike Bassett said the move was not a decision made lightly.
Corporate shareholders Matthew Good and Robert White, as well as associate Sydny Helbert, have lateraled over to Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr from Conner & Winters. The three of them will focus on M&A, aviation transactions and other complex corporate matters.
John D. Surma, a workplace safety partner, has joined Fisher Phillips in Houston from Ogletree Deakins. He will focus his practice on workplace safety, regulatory compliance and catastrophe management matters.
John D. Penn, a bankruptcy partner, has joined Fox Rothschild in Dallas, where he will focus his practice on complex bankruptcy and financial restructuring matters.
Bailey C. Pompea, a bankruptcy and commercial litigation partner, has joined Bonds Ellis Eppich Schafer Jones in Fort Worth from Michael Best & Friedrich. She will focus her practice on bankruptcy, restructuring and complex business disputes.
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