Clients at V&E’s Dallas office dined among the dinosaurs at the Perot Museum of Nature and Center. Friends of Susman Godfrey partied at the firm’s Houston office. The two events have been institutions when it comes to law firm holiday parties.
Law Firms Embrace Family-Friendly Holiday Events for Clients
They’ve made gingerbread houses, gone to the movies and had breakfast with Santa. These are not your typical law firm holiday parties, but they are, in some instances, surpassing the traditional dinner-and-drinks events in popularity and attendance. Family-friendly events are drawing big crowds as firms and clients embrace new ways to celebrate the holiday season.
Locke Lord Partners Approve Merger with Edwards Wildman
Mathematics professor Maurice Locke started his Dallas solo practice in 1891. Frank Liddell joined a small firm in Houston in 1916. The firm’s first client was the Houston Chronicle and its owner Jesse Jones. Those firms merged in 1999 and then they merged again with other firms. Today, Locke Lord announced that its partners have approved combining again with a Boston firm. The Texas Lawbook has all the details.
TX Law Firms Gear Up for Booming Mexican Legal Market
Dozens of law firms – most of them prominent Texas operations – are trying to expand into Mexico ahead of major energy reforms being implemented that could lead to tens-of-billions of dollars being invested in oil and gas projects.
Attn: General Counsel: What do You do when Domestic Abuse Affects the Workplace
Recent headlines about abusive NFL players, accompanied by dramatic video, have brought domestic violence into the forefront of the national conversation. What does a general counsel do when its his or her employee who is being abused at home? What are the ramifications if one of your employees is accused of abuse? These two experts provide practical guidance.
Legal Consultant: Texas Firms to Cut Underperforming Partners to Compete with Nat’l Firms
More global law firms are planning to move into Texas and they will continue to steal the best lawyers in the state by offering to pay them two or three times more money, a law firm management expert told the Legal Marketing Association of Texas last week. Despite the influx of money from national firms, compensation for corporate law partners in Dallas has actually declined 17 percent in recent years. He explains why.
Texas Legal Marketing: An $80 Million Industry and Growing
There are now more legal marketing professionals employed in Texas than public librarians, state court judges or licensed tow truck drivers. Some CMOs make more money than a majority of the lawyers at their law firms.
Porter Hedges Expands Energy Practice to Oklahoma
Houston-based Porter Hedges has opened an office in Oklahoma City and added four energy lawyers in the law firm’s first expansion outside of Texas in its 33-year history.
Munsch Hardt Expands in Houston, Talks Future Growth
The firm added eight attorneys from Harrison Bettis to their Houston office, who will solidify Munsch Hard’s energy litigation practice when they officially join Nov. 1.
Schiff Hardin Enters Texas, Snags Squire Patton Boggs Attorneys
The five partners spearheading the new office are Larry Makel, Gina Betts, Kenneth Betts, Stan Mayo and Jamie Whatley.