Upon completing its 24-year campaign commitment to United Way of Greater Houston, Weil’s Houston office was named the 2012-13 recipient of the Law Firm Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award. The office
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Jones Day and T&K Assist with $1 Billion Transaction
The big-dollar acquisition will give Atlas access to assets in the Eagle Ford shale.
Jones Day and T&K Assist with $1 Billion Transaction
The big-dollar acquisition will give Atlas access to assets in the Eagle Ford shale.
GCs Added to Expanded Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee
Texas’ two U.S. Senators have named a 35-member commission to review and evaluate candidates interested in filling six open federal district judgeships and two openings on the federal circuit court of appeals.
The Federal Judicial Evaluations Committee, appointed by Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, is stacked with high-profile Texas lawyers from the state’s largest and most prestigious law firms. New on the list, however, are four corporate general counsels, including chief legal officers or lawyers-turned-executives at JC Penney, Apache Corporation, Pride and Goldcrest Investments and Valley Baptist Health Systems.
The panel will advise the two senators regarding the qualifications of federal judicial candidates nominated by President Obama for federal judicial positions that are currently open or become open during the next four years.
Texas Law School Job Placement: The Bleeding Has Stopped
Texas’ nine law schools report that nearly 79 percent of their 2012 graduates found permanent, full-time jobs as a lawyer or another professional position – much lower than the 95-plus percent levels that law schools bragged about just a couple years ago. This exclusive report examines actual law school placement statistics school-by-school (Hint: the 79 percent is deceivingly high) and studies how Texas law schools are reacting.
UT GC Burgdorf Moves to Beatty Bangle and VuCOMP
“The job has changed in recent times,” he says, giving a nod to the recent controversy within the UT Board of Regents.
Polsinelli Getting Comfortable in Texas Legal Market
Less than two years ago, the Kansas City-based firm was barely a blip on the radar screen when it entered the Texas legal market with other giant firms–Latham & Watkins, Gibson Dunn and Sidley Austin. But Polsinelli had a solid strategic plan that is yielding early success.
Bankruptcy Attorney Sidney H. Scheinberg Joins Godwin Lewis
Godwin Lewis added bankruptcy attorney Sidney H. Scheinberg as a shareholder in its Plano and Dallas offices. Scheinberg was previously a partner at Glast, Phillips and Murray. Scheinberg focuses his
Gardere Names Three New Partners
Ashley W. Anderson and Jason Heep of Gardere’s Dallas office and Rhona Reed Weiner of the firm’s Houston office have been promoted to the partnership, effective April 11, 2013. Anderson,
Fact & Fiction Shape the Life of Lawyer, Author Mike Farris
Tom Clancy once distinguished the difference between fiction and reality: “Fiction has to make sense.” That truism has sometimes posed a challenge for attorney and author Mike Farris, a complex commercial litigator at Vincent Lopez Serafino Jenevein in Dallas, especially when his fictional characters are lawyers. Of course, therein lies the reason that the public loves to read legal thrillers, Farris says. In books, as in life, lawyers can be good guys and bad guys. Read on.