The wave of partnership promotions continues as 10 more law firms have announced Texas additions to their respective 2024-25 partnership classes.
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McGinnis Lochridge Adds 28-Year Veteran Oil and Gas Litigator From Enoch Kever
McGinnis Lochridge announced Monday that it has added Austin-based litigator Marla Broaddus as a partner to its oil and gas practice group.
Former Pioneer Managing Associate General Counsel Joins Bracewell
Bryan L. Clark was Pioneer Natural Resources’ primary marketing and midstream counsel and also served as lead counsel on energy transition matters.
Fisher Phillips Adds Two Lawyers to Expand Dallas Presence
The Dallas office of Fisher Phillips continues to grow with the hiring of Amanda Brown as partner from Reed Smith and Lauren McDonald from Tenet Healthcare. The labor and employment law firm’s Dallas office tripled in size in 2024.
CDT Roundup: 9 Deals, 12 Firms, 80 Lawyers, $6.8B
With a new year upon us, it’s a time for reflection and evaluation. You know what we mean: numbers. Here at the CDT Roundup, in case you haven’t noticed, we believe in numbers. We worship numbers. Even our headlines are numbers — with just enough words to let you know what we are counting: “Deals, Firms, Lawyers, Money.” But we also keep track of the numbers we write about.
How Texas M&A Lawyers Are Preparing for 2025
Now that the new year is here, many Texas M&A lawyers are preparing for potential developments in the upcoming year and identifying their focus areas. Many law firms are optimistic about the deal space in 2025, anticipating increased activity; however, they also plan to closely monitor how the new presidential administration may affect deals and their clients.
Biggest Texas Verdicts of 2024
Juries in the Eastern District of Texas handed out the largest and second-largest awards of the year and five of the Top 10. But no jury in the state cracked the $1 billion damages award threshold in a single case in 2024.
Clyde & Co. to Merge with Dallas’ Tillman Batchelor
Clyde & Co., a global law firm based in the UK, announced on Jan. 2 that it is expanding into the Texas legal market by merging with Dallas’ Tillman Batchelor, an insurance litigation-focused firm.
Keurig Dr Pepper, Taxwell Finalists for 2024 DFW Corporate Legal Department of the Year
The Association of Corporate Counsel’s DFW Chapter and The Texas Lawbook have created a new award category for the 2024 DFW Corporate Counsel Awards. The DFW Corporate Legal Department of the Year honor recognizes in-house working as a team to achieve extraordinary success. This year, two corporate legal departments stood out from all the rest.
“We’ve honored GCs of the Year, Senior Counsels of the Year, Business Litigation and M&A Deal of the Year, but we realized that there are situations where corporate legal departments may have major initiatives on multiple fronts or facing a significant crisis while also dealing with major transitions within their companies,” said Texas Lawbook publisher Brooks Igo. “We needed an award that looked at the bigger picture by examining all the different challenges.”
Fort Worth Boutique Firms Merge
Vartabedian Hester & Haynes and Forshey Prostok are ringing in the new year by adding expanded services for their clients through the combination.