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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.
In an era when lawyers are changing teams with the frequency of SEC linebackers, a large contingent of Dallas-based lawyers at Norton Rose Fulbright have been staying put for decades. Like lawyers on-the-move, they cite 'culture' as their reason for staying; but offering the credibility of decades in the same office of the same firm, these lawyers may actually mean it.
The combination bolsters Buchalter's existing Dallas presence and establishes offices in Fort Worth, Austin and Houston. The Los Angeles-based firm now as nearly 40 lawyers in Texas.
After a decade of serving her country as the first regional director of the Southwest Office for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Hope Shimabuku jumped at the opportunity to again create something new when she led the opening of Finnegan's Dallas office this month. And the elite global IP firm would’ve been hard-pressed to find someone better to be boots on the ground. The Texas Lawbook visited with Shimabuku about her legacy at the USPTO and her aspirations for Finnegan in Texas.
Tim Wells, who started his legal career at Brown Fox in 2022, is the fourth former federal law clerk at the 28-lawyer firm. “Fort Worth has been on our minds for many years. Tim’s return gives us a chance to anchor the new office with a talented Tarrant County attorney, a member of the Fort Worth community, and a litigator fresh off working in the Northern District’s Fort Worth Division," Brown Fox Managing Partner Russ Brown said.
Kane Russell Coleman Logan announced 12 new hires this month – four directors, one senior attorney, and seven associates – across its Dallas, Houston and Austin offices.
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.
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.
Pillsbury’s latest partner addition in Texas came Wednesday morning, as the firm announced that Valeska Pederson Hintz has joined its Emerging Companies and Venture Capital as a partner in the Austin office.
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.
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.
Shipman & Goodwin announced on Tuesday it opened a Dallas office with two restructuring attorneys from FBFK.
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