Texas Access to Justice Commission’s 2017 Deborah G. Hankinson Award Goes to HBA
HBA President Neil Kelly, a partner at Andrews Kurth Kenyon, accepted the award during the State Bar of Texas Bar Leaders Conference on July 29 in Houston.
Harriet Miers to Receive Texas Appleseed Good Apple Award
Locke Lord partner Miers will receive her award on Nov. 16 at the annual Good Apple Dinner.
Jackson Walker adds four-partner group from Andrews Kurth Kenyon, launches white collar practice
Dallas partner Jay Dewald, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, will lead the firm’s new white-collar group.
Stephanie Hildebrandt Named New GC at Archrock
Archrock, a Houston-based provider of natural gas contract compression services, has hired former Enterprise Products Partners general counsel Stephanie C. Hildebrandt to lead its corporate in-house legal department. A partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, Hildebrandt replaces Donald Wayne, who left Archrock in April to become the new general counsel at Quanta Services, a Houston energy services contracting company.
Baker McKenzie Dallas partner Melinda Phelan named chair of North America Tax Practice Group
Phelan advises multinational companies on international tax planning and transfer pricing matters.
Bracewell boosts upstream oil and gas practice with Houston deal partner Carl von Merz
Von Merz is a former lead in-house attorney at Statoil.
Polsinelli adds depth to restructuring practice in TX with new shareholder Trey Monsour
Monsour will office in both Dallas and Houston.
Locke Lord partners Michelle Earley and Scott Hastings elected to ALI membership
Earley and Hastings are two of six newly-elected ALI members from Texas.
DBA Judicial Evaluation Poll: No ‘A’s’ but Nine ‘F’s”
The Dallas Bar Association’s bi-annual judicial evaluation poll is out and there are only two explanations for the results: Dallas lawyers are very tough graders or the city has a bunch of poor and mediocre civil court judges. The Texas Lawbook has the details.
Greenberg Traurig builds up Austin corporate practice with shareholder Kyle Fox – Updated
Fox was previously at Miller, Egan, Molter & Nelson.
Appellate Vet Gwen Samora Reunites with Former Colleagues at Copeland & Rice
Samora practiced for 20-plus years at Vinson & Elkins, where she worked with Morgan Copeland and Tracey Rice, before running her own firm for the last two years.
Willkie Farr Picks Up Private Equity Pro Kfir Abutbul
Abutbul joins from Kirkland & Ellis, where he made partner last fall.