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Exclusive: One-on-One with Fulbright & Jaworski’s Newest Chairman – and its Last
Ken Stewart, universally liked and respected, sits down with The Texas Lawbook for his first and only interview since taking the firm’s leadership. He discusses progress in Fulbright’s “joining forces” with global legal giant Norton Rose, client and partner reactions, whether the Jaworski name is gone for good, firm finances and the prospects of competitive lawyers stealing away Fulbright’s best partners.
Exclusive: One-on-One with Fulbright & Jaworski's Newest Chairman – and its Last
Ken Stewart, universally liked and respected, sits down with The Texas Lawbook for his first and only interview since taking the firm’s leadership. He discusses progress in Fulbright’s “joining forces” with global legal giant Norton Rose, client and partner reactions, whether the Jaworski name is gone for good, firm finances and the prospects of competitive lawyers stealing away Fulbright’s best partners.
Five Tips for Fifth Circuit Business Cases in 2013
Pleading requirements, relationships that create personal jurisdiction, insurance coverage and the limited availability of mandamus relief greatly influences how a case develops, and the Court’s restrictive attitude about mandamus may mean finality for district court decisions about them.
Reed Smith: Build It and They will Come
For two years, the 1,700-lawyer Pittsburgh-based law firm has courted a half-dozen law firms in Dallas and Houston, including Thompson & Knight and Munsch Hardt, about merging. Frustrated that none of the Texas firms would marry, Reed Smith turned to Houston legal headhunters Clint Johnson and Janet Downey to lure top-line partners away from big firms to open a new office in Houston. More than a half-dozen have agreed. Read for more details.
K&L Gates Names Two New Partners in Dallas
Barrett Howell and Ryan Preston will become partners in K&L Gates’ Dallas office effective Mar. 1, 2013. Howell, a 2001 graduate of Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, focuses