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The ongoing battle for elite legal talent in Texas continued Monday as Latham & Watkins announced it hired five new energy and infrastructure partners away from three rival firms — Baker Botts, Sidley Austin and Orrick — to bolster its project development and finance teams.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges was still profitable when its leaders moved to wind down the 95-year-old firm. Current and former partners say a long-running fight over growth, including how hard to invest in Texas, cost the firm talent it couldn’t replace. Now its roughly 70 Texas lawyers, who brought in roughly $118.2 million last year, are weighing offers.
Advertising and trademark leaders at Haynes Boone say the addition of native Texan Holly Melton brings a distinctive consumer protection element to the firm’s offering.
Buchalter has added Scott Murray as a partner in its Dallas office and chair of its private funds practice, the firm said in a press release. Murray joins the corporate
Kane Russell Coleman Logan (KRCL) said it plans to move its Houston office from the Galleria area to downtown in May 2027, following a renovation of the new space. “At
Following failed merger talks with Vinson & Elkins and Willkie Farr, the management committee of 95-year-old corporate law giant Weil Gotshal has recommended an orderly wind-down, sending shockwaves through the Texas lateral market and beyond.
Watts Law Firm has added Andres Pereira as a partner to lead its New Aviation Accidents Litigation practice, according to a press release. Pereira brings more than 30 years of
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr has added Josh Pleitz as a shareholder in its Dallas office, where he joins the firm’s corporate securities and mergers and acquisitions practices. Pleitz joins
The Houston-based firm’s ties to Saudi Arabia are “rooted in the legacy” of former U.S. Secretary of State and Baker Botts senior partner James A. Baker III, and Robert Jordan, who served as U.S. ambassador to the kingdom from 2001 to 2003. The firm now has 22 lawyers and business professionals in the office.
Haynes Boone Chair and Firmwide Managing Partner Taylor Wilson discussed his firm’s most recent office opening with The Lawbook. “We’re particularly bullish on California.”
The firm is opening the office with a partner and senior counsel from Bracewell.
Texas A&M University School of Law Dean Robert B. Ahdieh has been named president of Pace University in New York. Since taking the helm in 2018, Ahdieh has guided the law school from 83rd to 22nd in national rankings, expanded total enrollment to more than 2,000 and led the school’s expansion in Fort Worth.
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