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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.

Mark Curriden

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.

Mark Curriden

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.

Claire Poole

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.

Mark Curriden

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.

Claire Poole

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.

Mark Curriden

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.

Mark Curriden

Norton Rose Fulbright Completes Acquisition of Chadbourne

The largest law firm in Texas has finalized a merger that significantly expands its operations in New York and Washington, D.C., and adds gravitas to its corporate mergers and acquisitions practice. Norton Rose Fulbright announced Friday that it has closed its combination with Chadbourne Parke, a 400-lawyer firm based in New York.

Mark Curriden

Tim Powers: ‘What Keeps Me Up at Night’

Haynes and Boone managing partner Tim Powers is navigating the 570-lawyer firm through turbulent and challenging times never before witnessed in the Texas legal market. Large, full-service corporate law firms in Dallas and Houston are simultaneously achieving historic financial successes and facing dire obstacles that threaten their very existence. “To say that we are in a volatile market would be an understatement,” Powers says.

Mark Curriden

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