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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.
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.
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.
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.
The Austin office opening is the Tampa, Fla.-based firm's second debut on Texas soil.
The Austin office opening is the Tampa, Fla.-based firm's second debut on Texas soil.
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.
Oil and gas legacy litigation expert Loulan Pitre, Jr. will lead the Fort Worth-based firm’s first office outside of Texas.
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.
Haynes and Boone says Powers, an SMU Dedman alum who specializes in international finance, will take over as MP on Jan. 1. In an interview with The Texas Lawbook, Powers discusses expansion to London and maybe other locations, the possibility of merging with another firm and the need to retain the firm's culture.
Author John Steinbeck once said, “Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.” When it comes to business in Texas, you don’t mess about. This article details six unmistakably Texas-style business lessons – unwritten codes of behavior that everyone notices and no one forgets – that stand the test of time.
Half of the 25 largest Texas firms saw their gross revenues climb in 2013, led by Susman Godfrey, Akin Gump and V&E
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