Baker Botts Names Four New Leaders Across Energy Platform
Baker Botts announced leadership appointments touching energy, infrastructure and tax.
Ex-Dinerstein GC Joins Winstead
McCall Grimes worked on several deals with Winstead leaders George Kraft and Jeff Matthews in his four and a half years as the top lawyer at the Houston-based family-owned real estate and development firm. He said Winstead was the obvious choice to land back in private practice.
Pillsbury Adds Austin Emerging Companies and VC Partner
Pillsbury’s latest partner addition in Texas came Wednesday morning, as the firm announced that Valeska Pederson Hintz has joined its Emerging Companies and Venture Capital as a partner in the Austin office.
Norton Rose Fulbright Adds IP Litigator Justin Cohen
Jeff Cody, Norton Rose Fulbright’s global and U.S. managing partner, said IP is one of the firm’s three core pillars.
Derek Lipscombe, Alex Pratt Join Haynes Boone’s Labor & Employment Practice
Derek Lipscombe was managing counsel at Toyota North America for nearly 11 years, and before that he spent four years as senior managing counsel at J.C. Penney. Alex Pratt practiced law at Perkins Coie for nine years. This week, both lawyers joined the Dallas office of Haynes Boone as partners in its expanding labor and employment practice.
Legal industry analysts say the lateral hires give the Dallas-based corporate firm a distinct advantage in the labor side of the employment law practice — an expertise that they describe as often overlooked yet in demand.
Four Former McKool Smith Principals Open High-Stakes IP Firm
Intellectual property lawyers Joshua Budwin, Richard Kamprath, Kevin Burgess, and John Campbell are bringing a new boutique powered by Big Law veterans to the market. “I tell my kids if you want to be truly successful you’ve got to work for yourself," Budwin said.
Connecticut Firm Latest Texas Entrant
Shipman & Goodwin announced on Tuesday it opened a Dallas office with two restructuring attorneys from FBFK.
Jackson Walker Adds Two in Houston
Jackson Walked picked up two new partners to their Houston office with the addition of an immigration lawyer from Foster LLP and debt finance lawyer poached from Kirkland & Ellis.
Sheppard Adds Longtime Corporate Lawyer in Dallas
Heather Bethancourt has joined the corporate practice group of Sheppard in Dallas after more than 11 years at McDermott Will & Schulte.
IP Firm Finnegan Opens in Dallas
Hope Shimabuku, who was a regional director for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the last decade, will lead the firm's sixth U.S. office.
Judge Albright Lured to A&O Shearman by Firm’s ‘Enthusiasm’ and Global IP Expertise
A year or so ago, former U.S. District Judge Alan Albright realized he was ready to make the next — likely the final — move in his long career in the world of patent and intellectual property litigation.
“I started really missing being a trial lawyer and the practice,” Albright told The Texas Lawbook in an interview Tuesday. “I'd watch during trials and lawyers would do something, and I would be old and grumpy and I would text my clerks: ‘They should have done this,’ or ‘That’s stupid.’”
Albright Joins A&O Shearman
Alan Albright was appointed to the federal bench in 2018 and quickly implemented local rules and procedures that turned his courtroom into a preferred venue for patent disputes. He stepped down from the role last month.