Hunton Andrews Kurth Officially Announced
The long-expected merger between Virginia-based Hunton & Williams and Andrews Kurth Kenyon was announced publicly Wednesday. The combined firm will be called Hunton Andrews Kurth.
Analysis: Texas Corporate Law Market Sees Massive Shake-Up & Realignment of M&A Practice
The Texas corporate legal market is experiencing extraordinary turmoil in 2018 – and the year is only six weeks old. Three large Texas-based corporate law firms are in the final stages of merger negotiations with out-of-state law firms. Five national law firms have either opened or are opening new offices in the state before the end of March. Since Jan. 1, more than 100 business lawyers have quit the law firms in Austin, Dallas and Houston where they have worked for years or even decades to join competitors. The Texas legal market, which has been a hotbed of activity since 2010, is in the midst of a frenzied transformation not witnessed in decades. The Texas Lawbook has details.
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.
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.