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Catherine Morse, former general counsel and senior director of public affairs for Samsung Austin Semiconductor, has returned to private practice as a member at the Austin regulatory law firm Enoch Kever.
During his 25 year tenure, Heckman was the principal insurance claims adviser to ExxonMobil and its global affiliates.
The labor and employment law firm elevated 28 attorneys to shareholder in the U.S.
The new additions bump McGinnis Lochridge’s total headcount in Austin to nearly 50 attorneys, while the number of lawyers at Austin-based Graves Dougherty has dipped below 40.
Chicago-based Katten Muchin Rosenman announced Monday that they have officially opened an office in Dallas with seven partners – six corporate M&A lawyers and one commercial litigator – that previously practiced with Andrews Kurth Kenyon.
For more than a decade, Gary Kennedy was a steady hand leading the corporate legal department at American Airlines, which faced tremendous turbulence and head winds - from the use of two of its plans by terrorists on 9/11 and the deadly crash of Flight 587 into a neighborhood in Queens to battles with its own labor unions and with Southwest Airlines over expansion at Love Field to its federal bankruptcy and merger with US Airways. In a new book to be released this week, Kennedy provides an extraordinary behind-the-scenes tour of these events and what really happened. Kennedy talked with The Texas Lawbook about the revelations in the book.
All four of the newly promoted partners are based in the firm's Houston headquarters.
The run on the bank of lawyers at Andrews Kurth Kenyon is continuing this week as three more law firms – Haynes and Boone, Orrick, Harrington & Sutcliffe and Shearman & Sterling – add to the list of law firms raiding the 115-year-old Houston corporate legal practice. DLA Piper made it official today that three AKK partners have joined its Dallas office today. The Texas Lawbook has full details.
Repman is a graduate of the South Texas College of Law Houston.
Neil Ferrari is based in the firm’s Dallas office and received his law degree from SMU Dedman School of Law.
© 2018 The Texas Lawbook. By Brooks Igo (Jan. 31) – Winstead is bolstering its securities litigation practice by luring two former government prosecutors to the firm as shareholders. Toby
Ten of the newly-minted shareholders are based in the following Texas offices: Dallas, The Woodlands, Houston and Fort Worth.
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