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Mike Androvett’s Groundbreaking 45 Years of Law & Journalism

Mike Androvett was making pretty good money as an investigative TV reporter for NBC 5 in Dallas in 1995 when he decided to start his own media consulting business advising lawyers.

“My hope was to get a client or two and just figure out a way to make a living,” he said in a recent interview.

Thirty-one years later, Androvett Legal Media is the largest and most dominant player in Texas legal public relations today with 20 employees and offices in DFW, Austin, Houston and San Antonio. 

Mark Curriden

Legendary Houston Journalist Mary Flood Discusses the Success of Mike Androvett

No legal journalist has been more respected in Texas during the past thirty years than Mary Flood. A former reporter with The Wall Street Journal and the Houston Chronicle, Flood covered some of the most important legal matters of this generation, including the trials involving the Enron scandal. 

In 2010, Flood retired from The Chronicle and joined Androvett Legal Media — a move Androvett said was “one of my smartest moves ever.” 

In this Q&A with The Texas Lawbook, Flood discusses working with Androvett when she was a reporter and for the past 16 years as an advisor and consultant.

Mark Curriden

Derek Lipscombe, Alex Pratt Join Haynes Boone’s Labor & Employment Practice

Derek Lipscombe was managing counsel at Toyota North America for nearly 11 years, and before that he spent four years as senior managing counsel at J.C. Penney. Alex Pratt practiced law at Perkins Coie for nine years. This week, both lawyers joined the Dallas office of Haynes Boone as partners in its expanding labor and employment practice.

Legal industry analysts say the lateral hires give the Dallas-based corporate firm a distinct advantage in the labor side of the employment law practice — an expertise that they describe as often overlooked yet in demand.

Mark Curriden

Four Former McKool Smith Principals Open High-Stakes IP Firm

Intellectual property lawyers Joshua Budwin, Richard Kamprath, Kevin Burgess, and John Campbell are bringing a new boutique powered by Big Law veterans to the market. “I tell my kids if you want to be truly successful you’ve got to work for yourself," Budwin said.

Brooks Igo

Jackson Walker Adds Two in Houston

Jackson Walked picked up two new partners to their Houston office with the addition of an immigration lawyer from Foster LLP and debt finance lawyer poached from Kirkland & Ellis.

Allen Pusey

Judge Albright Lured to A&O Shearman by Firm’s ‘Enthusiasm’ and Global IP Expertise

A year or so ago, former U.S. District Judge Alan Albright realized he was ready to make the next — likely the final — move in his long career in the world of patent and intellectual property litigation.

“I started really missing being a trial lawyer and the practice,” Albright told The Texas Lawbook in an interview Tuesday. “I'd watch during trials and lawyers would do something, and I would be old and grumpy and I would text my clerks: ‘They should have done this,’ or ‘That’s stupid.’”

Mark Curriden

Law Firms in Texas ‘Off to a Very Strong Start’ in H1 2026

Corporate lawyers in Texas were busier handling mergers, acquisitions and capital market transactions during the first half of 2026 than in any six-month period since 2021 and the tail end of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to new Citi Global Wealth at Work Law Firm Group data released exclusively to The Texas Lawbook. The Citi data shows that Texas businesses’ demand for legal services and lawyer headcount were up slightly, while the legal fees charged by Texas lawyers were up an astonishing double digits.

Mark Curriden

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