Culhane Meadows Expands in Texas, Launches Houston Office
The Houston office is the firm’s seventh nationwide. The firm also added partners to its Dallas and Austin offices.
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The Houston office is the firm’s seventh nationwide. The firm also added partners to its Dallas and Austin offices.

The New York-based law firm lured away 11 attorneys in total from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, diminishing half of its Houston office.

The Austin-based partner focuses his practice on transactions involving the acquisition or divestment of oil and gas properties and the formation of partnerships, limited liability companies or other entities for energy-related investments.

Andrews Kurth and the University of Houston Law Center have partnered up to give first-year law students a good dose of reality.

For six decades, Morris Atlas was the lawyer to see in South Texas. Big corporations from across the globe facing potentially crippling lawsuits hired him to save their businesses. Candidates for public office cherished his endorsement. Lawyers who wanted judicial appointments desired his blessing. And he founded the law firm Atlas, Hall & Rodriguez, which is the largest law firm in South Texas with 35 lawyers and three offices. Atlas died Sunday at his home in McAllen. He was 88.

Cathy Maher has been the executive director for 21 years and served in multiple other roles with the DBA before that.
Perkins focuses his practice on government and regulatory matters.
Perkins focuses his practice on government and regulatory matters.
Sara Burgin, Kevin Collins, Matt Paulson and Whit Swift are all joining as partners from Katten Muchin Rosenman.
Sara Burgin, Kevin Collins, Matt Paulson and Whit Swift are all joining as partners from Katten Muchin Rosenman.
Vital said he was drawn to his new firm by the opportunity to build an office from the ground up.
Vital said he was drawn to his new firm by the opportunity to build an office from the ground up.
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