O’Melveny Adds Another Dallas Litigator
Kristin Cope is the second Baker Botts litigation partner to join O'Melveny's new Dallas office.
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Kristin Cope is the second Baker Botts litigation partner to join O'Melveny's new Dallas office.
Jeff Oldham has presented oral argument in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Texas Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Federal Circuits and state courts of appeals throughout Texas
Jennifer Collins has accepted an offer to become the president of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
Blank Rome, which brought on Cassandra Mott and Sarah Frazier from Holland & Knight in September, has been busy building a corporate practice in Houston in the second half of the year.
Monica Hwang, an LNG expert, has practiced for the last 14-plus years in King & Spalding's Houston office.
Corporate lawyer Valeska Pederson Hintz is heading home to Texas and joining Perkins Coie's ECVC practice after spending the first chapter of her legal career in Palo Alto.
Trevor Pinkerton heads to a firm he has great familiarity with from his time at Emory University in Atlanta.
Ryan Hunsaker, who was of counsel at V&E, has helped secure more than $6 billion in loans and other credit facilities for clients over his decade-plus career.
John Tucker was most recently at Frost Brown Todd. He said he was drawn to Stinson's "reputable and robust" finance practice.
The securities and class action defense experts are notable additions for Shearman, which has focused most of its growth in Texas on the corporate transactional side to date.
The firm's new recruits include a former member of the Texas House of Representatives and an experienced office managing partner.
The former assistant general counsel at Magellan Midstream Partners discussed his recent move to Houston, his experience working with Sidley while at Magellan and key issues facing midstream companies.
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