McGinnis Lochridge Beefs Up Ranks in Austin HQ
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.
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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.
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