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By Brooks Igo
(Aug. 10) – Littler, the world’s largest labor and employment law firm, announced today that it has opened an office in Austin, the firm’s third in Texas.
Firm leaders said in a press release that the decision was motivated by several of the firm’s clients’ corporate and regional headquarters relocating to Austin.
Littler tapped into talent from its Dallas office to launch the new outpost. Steve McCown, co-founder and former office managing shareholder of Littler’s Dallas office, will lead the office. Allan King, co-chair of the firm’s class actions practice group, and shareholder Kevin Mullen round out the Austin team.
“We had always known we wanted to open an office an Austin, we just needed to find the right group,” McCown said. “If I can’t grow the office to eight to 10 lawyers by the end of 2016, then I’m not doing my job.”
McCown says he and his Dallas colleagues opening the office will be boots on the ground on Sept. 1. He says there are attorneys in the firm’s Houston office that are considering transferring to Austin as well.
Jeremy Roth, co-president and co-managing director of Littler, says Texas hold a special significance to the firm historically – the Dallas office was the firm’s first full-fledged office outside of California.
“Twenty years ago, Austin was not viewed as a separate and distinct marketplace except for the University of Texas,” he said. “But over the last few years, it has become a world-class hub for technology and innovation.
“We go where our employers go.”
The firm represents clients in the manufacturing, high-tech and health care industries in Austin.
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