The report says Hispanic business leaders have potentially hundreds of millions to even billions of dollars in legal needs that are mostly going unmet.
Looper Splits from Reed & McGraw
Prominent Houston energy lawyer Donald Looper and the law firm he co-founded 28 years ago, Looper Reed & McGraw, announced Tuesday they were parting ways effective immediately. Managing Partner J. Cary Gray said that Looper left the firm over “managerial differences” involving the expansion of the corporate law section. Looper, in an interview with The Texas Lawbook, said that he is leaving the full-service law firm to start a new, smaller transactional boutique in Houston. He said he would have more details on his new law firm on January 20.
Looper Splits from Reed & McGraw
Prominent Houston energy lawyer Donald Looper and the law firm he co-founded 28 years ago, Looper Reed & McGraw, announced Tuesday they were parting ways effective immediately. Managing Partner J. Cary Gray said that Looper left the firm over “managerial differences” involving the expansion of the corporate law section. Looper, in an interview with The Texas Lawbook, said that he is leaving the full-service law firm to start a new, smaller transactional boutique in Houston. He said he would have more details on his new law firm on January 20.
Reuters: Locke Lord in Merger Talks with Patton Boggs
The two firms issue written statements declining to comment on negotiations.
Baker Botts, Gibson Dunn, Sidley, V&E and Winston Benefit from Weil’s Texas Stumble
For two decades, Weil Gotshal built a Texas operation that was the envy of every other law firm. Then, in a period of a few weeks, dozens of lawyers have left the law firm in what its former partners call a “complete debacle” by Weil’s leadership in New York. Other firms are benefiting from Weil’s missteps.
Baker Botts, Gibson Dunn, Sidley, V&E and Winston Benefit from Weil’s Texas Stumble
For two decades, Weil Gotshal built a Texas operation that was the envy of every other law firm. Then, in a period of a few weeks, dozens of lawyers have left the law firm in what its former partners call a “complete debacle” by Weil’s leadership in New York. Other firms are benefiting from Weil’s missteps.
Large Dallas Law Firms Flunking in Diversity
The Dallas Diversity Task Force’s 2013 report shows that not only is diversity not improving at the city’s biggest law firms, it is getting worse.
Bracewell’s Public Finance Group Expands in San Antonio
Muni Bond Leader Ben Brooks talks about his group growing from one to 30 lawyers in two years.
Patton Boggs Adds Two Attorneys in Dallas Office
The new lawyers are part of a series of lateral hires expected at Patton Boggs.
Sidley Grabs Eight Partners from Weil in Dallas
The eight prominent partners have become known to several major law firms trying to recruit them as “The Weil Seven Plus One” because they are personally and professionally close and loyal to each other and, of course, because they are seven women and one man. Yvette Ostolaza, Angela Fontana, Michelle Hartmann and five others are taking their law practices four blocks across Woodall Rodgers Freeway to Sidley Austin. This story explains why they are on the move.