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By Allen Pusey
(May 23) — The Dallas litigation firm of Lackey Hershman has agreed to combine with Stinson Leonard Street, creating the firm’s first Texas outpost.
The 16-lawyer Dallas firm, which was formed in 2001 as a litigation boutique, will be absorbed by Stinson, an AmLaw 200 firm co-headquartered in Kansas City and Minneapolis, effective June 1.
“It is not every day you get the opportunity to partner with a group of attorneys as talented as those at Lackey Hershman,” said Mark Hinderks, Stinson’s managing partner. “They are aggressive, creative litigators with an impressive track record of success in high stakes cases.”
As a full-service firm with 475 attorneys, Stinson has major offices in Kansas City, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Phoenix, Wichita, Omaha, Washington, DC. With the opening of offices in Dallas and Denver, Stinson has 15 locations.
“We have been looking to expand our business in Texas for some time, and we are excited about the potential of this combination,” continued Hinderks in a press release. “It creates the opportunity to bring our experience in corporate finance and governance, M&A, health care, real estate and other business practices to Lackey Hershman’s client base, and to project their high-level trial experience across our network of offices.”
“During the past couple years, we’ve been approached by just about every law firm wanting to move into Texas,” said Paul Lackey, Stinson’s managing partner in Dallas said in an interview Wednesday, noting that Stinson already has several active clients in Texas.
“We’ve been super successful in complex commercial litigation, but we’ve left tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars on the table because we didn’t provide legal services beyond commercial litigation,” he said.
“Stinson showed us that they are clearly committed to growing and being successful in Texas. I fully expect that we will expand the Dallas office into a full service operation during the next couple years.”
“I’ve seen the increased consolidation in the Texas legal market,” Lackey added, “and I’ve seen clients wanting more and more one-stop shopping for their legal services.”
Senior Editor Mark Curriden contributed to this report.
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