Spencer Fane Adds Another Partner in Austin
Cokinos Young principal Jennifer Riso is the third attorney to join Spencer Fane this month.
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Cokinos Young principal Jennifer Riso is the third attorney to join Spencer Fane this month.
Denman Heard and Derek Merman have worked side by side on cases across the country. Their new firm, they say, will specialize in catastrophic personal-injury claims.
The addition of Danny Ashby, who was previously at Morgan Lewis, comes nearly two weeks after O’Melveny recruited a five-partner corporate team from Locke Lord.

For 25 years, Brian Robison has practiced commercial and antitrust litigation at V&E and Gibson Dunn - two large corporate firms. He's wanted to be a mediator for several years and the law firm structure was not a good fit. On Tuesday, he started as a partner at business boutique Brown Fox. But there's more to this story than just another lateral lawyer move.
The 150-lawyer Texas firm, which has offices in Houston, Dallas and Waco, looked outside of the state for its latest hire.
ADJ Managing Partner Marcy Hogan Greer said in a statement that Hurd’s “unique understanding of the workings of the appeals process” will “undoubtedly be of great benefit to our clients.”
The additions double McGinnis Lochridge's Dallas roster.
William A. (Cody) Faulk III and Rashmin Asher have left Austin-based Lloyd Gosselink for Spencer Fane.
Longtime colleagues Barry Sorrels and Stephanie Luce Ola have branched off from their old firm to create a new criminal defense firm, Sorrels Ola. It handles everything from state misdemeanor and felony charges to federal healthcare fraud charges.
The products liability and trade secrets lawyer joins from Holland & Knight.
Max Stubbs, who specializes in midstream and upstream transactions, is reuniting with old colleagues from the Locke Lord corporate group.
Knox Ricksen, a litigation firm specializing in complex healthcare and insurance-fraud cases, has opened its first office outside of California with three lawyers.
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