Winston Picks Up Houston Corporate Partner from Locke Lord
Max Stubbs, who specializes in midstream and upstream transactions, is reuniting with old colleagues from the Locke Lord corporate group.
California Litigation Firm Expands to Dallas
Knox Ricksen, a litigation firm specializing in complex healthcare and insurance-fraud cases, has opened its first office outside of California with three lawyers.
Latham Signs Ex-V&E Lawyer to Co-Chair Global ESG Practice
Sarah Fortt, the fifth lateral partner Latham has added in Austin, will lead the global ESG practice alongside London partner Paul Davies.
Jackson Walker Adds Fiduciary Litigation Muscle to Wealth Planning Group
With the additions from Crain Caton, Jackson Walker has recruited 12 partners over the past three months.
Locke Lord Corporate Team in Dallas Departs for O’Melveny
The five-partner team — highlighted by Whit Roberts and Jack Jacobsen, two Locke Lord lifers — includes three who have held firm or department-wide leadership roles. This latest move brings O'Melveny's Texas partner total to 15, with more lateral poaching expected by the Los Angeles-headquartered firm.
McKool Smith Snags Noted Houston Patent Litigator
Ryan McBeth, lawyer, inventor and former IBM engineer, joins McKool Smith as a principal from Bracewell, where he specialized in patent, trade- secret and trademark disputes in the energy and tech sectors.
Longtime ERCOT Lawyer Joins Austin Office of Baker Botts
Juliana Morehead Sersen, who spent 12 years with the entity that manages the Texas electric grid, says she’s still sorting out what role, if any, she will play in Baker Bott’s cases stemming from last February’s deadly winter storm.
Kirkland Adds IP Litigator in Austin
Kat Li now is the seventh Texas-based lawyer in Kirkland's growing intellectual property practice group. She joins from McKool Smith.
Arizona Firm Opens Dallas Office
Phoenix-based Snell & Wilmer is the latest new entrant — and the first of 2022 — in Texas.
Lynn Pinker Names Chris Schwegmann New Managing Partner
Schwegmann, who joined the firm in 2005, previously served as Lynn Pinker's general counsel and succeeds Eric Pinker, who served as managing partner for 21 years.
Skadden’s Bayouth Moves to PE Firm
Frank Bayouth, a 30-year deal partner at Skadden in Houston, has joined a longtime client as general counsel.
SEC Asst. Director Jumps to Holland & Knight
Former SEC Assistant Regional Director for Enforcement Scott Mascianica, who was involved in cases against Nikola Motor Corporation, Akazoo and Breitling Energy, said he moved his practice to Holland & Knight because last year’s merger with Thompson & Knight gives its partners a larger national platform to represent clients and because the firm is growing its white-collar defense and international investigations practice.