Alternative Fees Take Bite Out of the Billable Hour
Corporations seeking outside legal assistance have been looking to alternative fee arrangements in recent years as an answer to cut legal expenses and move away from growing hourly rates.
General Counsel & Study: Shortsighted Business Law Firms Ignoring Hispanic Business Growth
The legal needs of the Hispanic business community in North Texas are going unmet by lawyers because DFW business law firms employ very few Spanish-speaking attorneys, according to a new study, leaders of the Chamber of Commerce and a growing number of corporate general counsel.
General Counsel & Study: Shortsighted Business Law Firms Ignoring Hispanic Business Growth
The legal needs of the Hispanic business community in North Texas are going unmet by lawyers because DFW business law firms employ very few Spanish-speaking attorneys, according to a new study, leaders of the Chamber of Commerce and a growing number of corporate general counsel.
Baker Botts and Sidley Lead Texas Effort in New Women’s Fellowship Program
The OnRamp Fellowship will match experienced women lawyers returning to the profession with law firms for a one-year training contract to refresh their skills make them hire-ready when the year is up.
Survey: Texas Lawyers Need to Focus on Latino Businesses’ Legal Service Needs — Updated
The report says Hispanic business leaders have potentially hundreds of millions to even billions of dollars in legal needs that are mostly going unmet.
Survey: Texas Lawyers Need to Focus on Latino Businesses' Legal Service Needs — Updated
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.