Three decades later after launching in a brutal recession, the law firm has more than 120 lawyers with offices in Houston and Dallas and is among the 20 largest law firms in Texas.
Locke Lord Leaving Imprint on Legal Profession through Bar Association Leadership
Dallas partners Brad Weber and Frank Stevenson and New Jersey-based partner Paulette Brown are serving overlapping terms as presidents of the DBA, State Bar of Texas and ABA, respectively.
Patrick Keating Leaves Big Law to Launch Keating PLLC
Keating, who was a commercial litigation partner at Haynes and Boone in Dallas for more than 20 years, recently made his first lateral hire, Catherine Brandt.
EFH GC Stacey Doré: “The Smartest Person in the Room”
At age 43, Energy Future Holdings GC Stacey Doré is one of the few women corporate general counsel at a Fortune 500 company and she is certainly one of the youngest. She finds herself leading one of the largest business bankruptcies in U.S. history, even though she had no prior bankruptcy law experience. No business lawyer in Texas is under more pressure or scrutiny these days than Doré.
But lawyers with intimate knowledge of the situation say that EFH’s executive leadership and board specifically chose Doré to be the general counsel in 2012 to lead the company through what it knew could be a long and contentious bankruptcy.
Morgan Lewis Lures Dallas Employment Litigator Ann Marie Arcadi
Arcadi is the eleventh Dallas lawyer to jump to Morgan Lewis from K&L Gates this year.
Jones Day Strengthens Energy Transactions Practice with Addition of Houston Partner Stephen Olson
Olson has worked on transactions totaling more than $9 billion in the last three years, according to his firm bio.
Munck Wilson Adds Aaron Davidson
Davidson joins the Dallas-based boutique from Baker Botts.
V&E Picks Up Energy M&A Pro Bryan Loocke
Loocke says V&E’s platform and the opportunity to work on deals for more private equity firms and publicly-traded companies attracted him to join its ranks.
V&E Picks Up Energy M&A Pro Bryan Loocke
Loocke says V&E’s platform and the opportunity to work on deals for more private equity firms and publicly-traded companies attracted him to join its ranks.
Baker & McKenzie Brings Back Labor and Employment Expert Celina Joachim
Joachim, who spent the first ten years of her legal career at Baker & McKenzie, was most recently in-house at Houston-based Direct Energy.