The 2018 legal free agency market is starting off with a tidal wave of lateral moves. The Texas Lawbook has learned that New York corporate law firm White & Case is opening in Houston, Chicago’s Katten Muchin is launching in Dallas, DLA Piper is quadrupling headcount in Dallas, AKK’s merger with Hunton & Williams is progressing and Baker Botts is snatching three MLP partners from V&E. And then after lunch…. The Lawbook has all the exclusive details.
Norton Rose Fulbright Global Chair: ‘Texas Lawyers are Bigger than Life’
Tricia Hobson was in Dallas Thursday and Houston – a mere 8,581 miles from her law firm’s office in Australia. Her new position as Global Chair of Norton Rose Fulbright requires that she visit the firm’s offices in 58 cities around the globe. She says the lawyers in Texas are unique from those anywhere else in the world. The Texas Lawbook has the exclusive interview.
AKK at 115: A Legendary Texas Firm Ponders Its Past and Its Future
It launched in Houston in 1902 as Andrew & Ball, but today Andrews Kurth Kenyon is a law firm with global reach. Its clients have included legends in business and government—names like Jesse Jones and Howard Hughes. The Texas Lawbook looks back at AKK’s story of client loyalty and professional survival.
Five TX Firms Get Perfect Scores in LGBTQ Report
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation announced Thursday that five Texas-based law firms garnered top honors in the organization’s 2018 Corporate Equality Index for advancing policies regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer rights.
Non-Lawyers Grow More Powerful in Texas Law Firms
Non-lawyer professionals are having a profound effect on the operational and strategic management of top law firms everywhere. Long regarded as an Old School market, Texas had been slow to gravitate toward this evolution. But new competitive realities have taken hold in the Lone Star State and Texas firms are changing the ways they do business at an increasingly rapid pace. Claire Poole has the story in The Texas Lawbook.>
Gardere, Foley Confirm Merger Talks
Dallas-based Gardere and Milwaukee-based Foley & Lardner confirm that they are in serious talks about combining. Such a combination would give Foley a strong foothold in Texas and an emerging presence in Mexico. The Texas Lawbook has details.
Merger Mania – Are Texas Law Firms Catching the Fever?
Once a month, corporate law firm leaders in Texas get a phone call or a visit from competitors headquartered outside the state – sometimes across the ocean – interested in
AKK Discusses 1,000 Lawyer Combo with Hunton & Williams
One year ago, Andrews Kurth merged with New York IP boutique Kenyon & Kenyon. Now, leaders at the Houston-based corporate law firm appear interested in joining forces with a larger national or regional practice. Industry insiders say AKK has had discussions with Hunton & Williams that would create a 1,000-attorney firm with about $850 million in revenues.
Continuing Coverage: Baker Botts to Host Harvey Volunteer Training
The Houston Bar Association and Lone Star Legal Aid are partnering up to provide an in-person training disaster legal training CLE for lawyers who are interested in volunteering to help Hurricane Harvey victims.
Bell Nunnally Joins Associate Salary Hike, Raises First-Year Pay to $180K
The 54-lawyer firm is matching the first-year pay adjustments made last summer by more than a dozen much larger firms in Texas after New York powerhouse Cravath, Swaine & Moore – considered the precedent setter for BigLaw pay – announced that it would increase its first-year associate salaries to $180,000.
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