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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.
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.
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.
The five partners spearheading the new office are Larry Makel, Gina Betts, Kenneth Betts, Stan Mayo and Jamie Whatley.
The firm's fourth office officially opened Oct. 1 and includes nine attorneys from Hinkle Hensley.
The firm's fourth office officially opened Oct. 1 and includes nine attorneys from Hinkle Hensley.
Only a month ago, Don Godwin and his legal team won one of the biggest environmental legal disputes ever. Today, 17 lawyers from that team are out of work.
The Philadelphia law firm has been seeking to open an outpost in Texas for years, but officially did so Wednesday when it merged with David & Goodman, an 18-lawyer firm in Dallas. Clinton J. David said if he merged his firm, it would need to be with a compatible culture, he said. “I found that in Fox Rothschild,” David said.
The legal market in Texas has remained flat in the past decade, but it is still better off than most of the nation’s.
Locke Lord, a 630-lawyer firm based in Texas, announced Wednesday that it has signed a letter of intent to merge with another large law firm based in Boston.
If you never thought a film starring the Hollywood duo of Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn could influence how a law firm does business, you’re in for a surprise.
Attention lawyers, general counsel and business executives involved in high stakes litigation: “No comment” just doesn’t cut it anymore, says Chrysta Castañeda, a former Locke Lord litigation partner who recently opened the downtown Dallas office of Canterbury Communications.
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