Perkins Coie, which boasts Amazon, Costco, Microsoft and Starbucks as clients, officially added three partners to its Dallas operation last week and plans to announce more lawyers joining in the next couple months.
Three Firms, Three Mergers – Measuring Success After 15 Months
Gardere would have celebrated its 110th anniversary this year. Andrews Kurth of Houston would have been 117 years old. Strasburger & Price would have turned 80. In April, the three firms merged with national practices within days of each other. The Texas Lawbook examines how each of those mergers has worked out.
Meet the Lawyers Behind the Texas Foster Care Reform Case
Two Texas law firms are one step closer to obtaining what they say are long-overdue reforms to the state’s foster care system after a ruling issued Monday by the Fifth Circuit. Natalie Posgate has the details on the ruling and the 411 on the Texas lawyers involved and how they got on the case.
Seventeen Law Firms in Texas Hit Elite Status
There are many ways to judge the financial success of a law firm, including head count, total revenues, net profits and profits per partner. The Texas Lawbook uses revenue per lawyer. A new Texas-based law firm crashed into the group of elite firms that had RPLs of $1 million or more in 2018. The Lawbook has the exclusive rankings.
Texas Legal Recruiting Pioneer Susan Pye (1950-2019)
Scores of Texas companies and law firms hired thousands of corporate lawyers and paralegals over the past 25 years for one reason: Because Susan Pye told them to. Pye, a pioneer in legal recruiting and trusted advisor to dozens of corporate general counsel and law firm leaders, died Thursday. She was 69.
Chron: Law School Starts Incubator for Community-minded Graduates
Gary Bledsoe, the acting dean of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University, has launched an entrepreneurship incubator for community-minded law graduates.
Big Law, A Sweat Suit Summer and Bringing Down the Tyranny of the Tie
During the Summer of 1998, Dallas endured 56 days of 100-degree weather. That same summer Chris Kratovil entered Big Law at Hughes & Luce. The memory of that summer was the beginning of the Tyranny of the Tie and Kratovil, who now manages a law firm office, is glad not to go back.
King & Spalding Quietly Keeps Growing in Texas
In 1995, the Atlanta firm King & Spalding was asked by one of its major clients to open a Texas office. Oil was trading at $17 per barrel and natural gas below $2 Mcf. Still, Houston was on the rise and so K&S took the plunge. More than two decades later, its quiet, steady success has become the template for other national firms looking for a piece of the Lone Star State. Claire Poole tells their story.
Seven Litigators Depart Winstead to Open Houston Office of Dallas Firm
The group leaving for Shackelford includes six partners led by Jay Brown, Stephen Wedemeyer and Bruce Wilkin.
Pittsburgh Firm Opens Houston Outpost
The 155-lawyer Babst Calland has entered one of the hottest legal markets in the country by acquiring an oil and gas law firm in Houston.
