The office formerly was structured as a joint venture with lawyers from Mexico City-based Arena y Asociados.
Quinn Emanuel Opens in Houston with David Gerger
Another new week, another national law firm opens in Texas. Prominent Houston white-collar criminal defense attorney David Gerger, who represented Enron CFO Andy Fastow and now defends BP rig supervisor Robert Kaluza in the Deepwater Horizon explosion, will lead Quinn Emanuel’s new Houston office.
Get Wall Street Out of the Practice of Law
The Texas Bar’s ethics opinion that Big Law can no longer give their non-lawyer administrators titles like Chief Operating Officer because it implies that those folks have managerial control over the firms they support. Why? Because non-lawyers actually now control Big Law and the Big Titles are the proof. The expensive legal rates and rising profits per partner are the result.
Coffee with Squire Patton Boggs: Merger Means “Getting to Know Each Other” in Texas
Squire Patton Boggs doesn’t roll off the tongue quite yet, but leaders in the newly merged firm’s Dallas and Houston offices say the combining of their forces is going very well. The Texas Lawbook takes a peek inside.
Hilda Galvan Named Dallas Partner-in-Charge at Jones Day
Galvan is the second Hispanic woman to be partner-in-charge of one of Jones Day’s Texas office. The first is her predecessor, Pat Villareal.
Holland & Knight Launches Austin Office
The Austin office opening is the Tampa, Fla.-based firm’s second debut on Texas soil.
Holland & Knight Launches Austin Office
The Austin office opening is the Tampa, Fla.-based firm’s second debut on Texas soil.
Texas Firms Oppose Bar Disciplinary Counsel’s Ban on “Chief Officers”
More than 50 law firms have asked the Texas Supreme Court Professional Ethics Committee to reconsider an ethics opinion issued last month that prohibits law firms from identifying non-lawyer employees as “officer” in their title. The ethics opinion would ban job titles including chief operating officer, chief marketing officer and chief technology officer.
Kelly Hart Opens New Orleans Office
Oil and gas legacy litigation expert Loulan Pitre, Jr. will lead the Fort Worth-based firm’s first office outside of Texas.
Norton Rose Fulbright Elects Linda Addison as US Managing Partner
Linda Addison, the daughter of two Holocaust survivors, became the first woman to be named managing partner of Norton Rose Fulbright’s U.S. operations. A trial lawyer who splits her time between Houston and New York, Addison once climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. She replaces Dallas lawyer Ken Stewart.