Los Angeles-based Sheppard Mullin, a 90-year-old law firm with more than 800 lawyers in 15 offices worldwide, is expected to announce in the couple weeks that it is opening an outpost in Dallas. The Texas Lawbook has learned that Sheppard Mullin will open its Texas operation with a mixture of lawyers that it is recruiting from existing Dallas law firms and lawyers it is relocating from other Sheppard Mullin offices.
White & Case Officially Opens in Houston, Wants 50-Lawyer Office
After 36 years at V&E, Jay Cuclis has officially opened the Houston office of White & Case. Two Andrews Kurth Kenyon energy transactional partners in Houston – Christopher Richardson and Charlie Ofner – are joining Cuclis. Inan interview with The Texas Lawbook, Cuclis says the 2,100-lawyer global firm plans to be aggressive in building the office.
Katten Muchin Officially Opens in Dallas
Chicago-based Katten Muchin Rosenman announced Monday that they have officially opened an office in Dallas with seven partners – six corporate M&A lawyers and one commercial litigator – that previously practiced with Andrews Kurth Kenyon.
More AKK Lawyers go to DLA Piper, Orrick, Haynes and Boone, Shearman
The run on the bank of lawyers at Andrews Kurth Kenyon is continuing this week as three more law firms – Haynes and Boone, Orrick, Harrington & Sutcliffe and Shearman & Sterling – add to the list of law firms raiding the 115-year-old Houston corporate legal practice. DLA Piper made it official today that three AKK partners have joined its Dallas office today. The Texas Lawbook has full details.
Strasburger in Merger Talks with Detroit Law Firm
Strasburger & Price, a Dallas law firm founded in 1938 by two law school buddies and grew to become one of the most prominent corporate law practices in Texas, is involved in merger discussions with Detroit-based Clark Hill. The combined firm would have more than 600 lawyers and annual revenues of about $270 million. The Texas Lawbook has exclusive details.
Locke Lord Provides Insight on Combating Workplace Sexual Harassment
With new sexual harassment scandals surfacing nearly every week, companies are increasingly reevaluating whether they have the proper protocols to handle any incidents that occur in the workplace. A group of labor & employment experts from Locke Lord are here to help. The Lawbook tuned into the firm’s comprehensive webinar and laid out the takeaways that every in-house legal department and their HR teams should consider.
White & Case, Katten Muchin to Open TX Outposts; DLA Piper Expands; AKK and V&E Partners Jump
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.