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.
Akin Gump Tests Law Office of the Future
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.
Chrysta Castañeda Opens Legal Communications Shop in Downtown Dallas
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.
Nat’l Law Firm Invasion into Texas Changes Legal Marketplace
More than 600 Texas lawyers during the past five years have left local based firms to start or grow the Texas practices of national law firms. About 30 out-of-state law firms have opened in Dallas, Houston and Austin since Feb. 2010. Virginia-based LeClairRyan and California-based Quinn Emanuel opened Houston offices in July.
The national law firms have offered multimillion-dollar guaranteed contracts to senior partners with large books of business. Even mid-level associates with no portable business were offered signing bonuses as high as $75,000.
The Texas Lawbook examines the trend and how it impacts the legal marketplace.
Norton Rose Fulbright’s Two New US Group Heads Talk Goals, Trends
The firm also recently announced the new partners-in-charge of the firm’s Dallas and San Antonio offices.
Gardere Solidifies Mexico Presence with New Subsidiary
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.