Blank Rome Combines with Wong Cabello, Beefs Up IP Practice in Houston
The Philadelphia-based firm doubled its presence in Houston by adding 24 lawyers from the IP law firm.
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The Philadelphia-based firm doubled its presence in Houston by adding 24 lawyers from the IP law firm.

The Houston Multi-Bar Diversity Committee issued final grades to law firms based on their hiring and promotion of women and ethnic minorities. Some firms truly improved during the past decade. Others have not. Here are the full report cards:

Michael Byrd and Brad Adatto founded ByrdAdatto earlier this year.
The firm is more than doubling its Dallas office by adding two teams of M&A and technology and outsourcing lawyers from K&L Gates.
The firm is more than doubling its Dallas office by adding two teams of M&A and technology and outsourcing lawyers from K&L Gates.

Albright spent the last year at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan. He is a former U.S. Magistrate Judge in Austin.

Albright spent the last year at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan. He is a former U.S. Magistrate Judge in Austin.

Partners John Mauel and Julie Mayo and senior counsel Jay Stiffler join from Pillsbury's Houston office.

McFaul, who joins from Vinson & Elkins, said he was attracted to the firm’s wide-ranging and growing expertise in oil and gas as well as its growth in Texas.

A.C. Gonzalez says the discrepancy between the number of Hispanics in the state and the number of Hispanic lawyers in the state has numerous negative implications for the community-at-large.

More than 200 lawyers, judges, law school deans and law students were in attendance at the Belo Mansion Thursday to celebrate the future generation of Hispanic lawyers and veteran Hispanic lawyers at law firms and corporate legal departments that have “paid it forward.”
In March 1985, six fourth year associates at Winstead decided to start their own firm. They had no clients, no management experience and minimal business development training. “Just about any law firm consultant would say that’s crazy and stupid,” says Dallas business litigator Steven Harr. At a time when most smaller middle market full service law firms are struggling for survival or seeking a merger, Munsch Hardt has witnessed steady growth by creating a niche in the Texas legal market.
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