The new laterals at Willkie — Tom Tippetts, Brandon McCoy and Chase Proctor — will be joined/supported by a few other familiar names from Willkie’s New York and Texas offices.
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Kirkland & Ellis counseled the acquiring consortium with a team led by corporate partners Melissa Kalka, Emily Lichtenheld and Andy Calder.
Forum Energy’s ‘No-ego GC’ John Ivascu has ‘Banner Year’ in 2023
Forum Energy Technologies General Counsel John Ivascu remembers the moment outside counsel from Yetter Coleman, whom he had hired to defend against patent infringement claims, let him know they had found something that would likely change the outcome of the case.
“It was fairly early in the case that we discovered it … and it really kind of changed the path of the case,” he told The Texas Lawbook.
The Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Lawbook have named Ivascu and outside counsel Yetter Coleman as one of three finalists for the 2024 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for Business Litigation of the Year.
Andrew Lehman Reunites with Akin’s Houston Office
Andrew Lehman is returning to Akin as a partner in its private equity practice, the firm announced today in a news release.
Brown Fox Boosts Litigation Practice with Paulette Miniter
Paulette Miniter joins the Dallas boutique law firm as a partner where she will focus on business and commercial litigation, as well as appeals. In an interview with The Texas Lawbook, Miniter discusses making the move from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where she was an associate.
Mitsui GC Linda Primrose’s ‘Trailblazing Leadership a Precedent for Future Generations’
Linda Primrose has a passion for education. It is in her genes. She has a bachelor’s degree in biology, a master’s degree in environmental sciences, a law degree and a senior executive program certificate from the London Business School. “I love to learn … and would gladly still be in school obtaining additional degrees,” Primrose told The Texas Lawbook. “Unfortunately, that isn’t practical.”
Primrose discovered the second best thing: Being a lawyer at Mitsui & Co., an international company with 10 business divisions ranging from iron and steel products, mineral and metal resources and infrastructure projects to mobility business, foods and retail, wellness and IT and communication. The Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook have named Primrose a finalist for the 2024 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for General Counsel of the Year for a Midsized Legal Department.
Q&A: Linda Primrose
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P.S. — Six-figure Fundraising, HBA’s Changing of the Guard & Adulting
This week’s edition of P.S. features the unveiling of Porter Hedges’ new 1L diversity fellow, a fundraising development from the Texas Access to Justice Commission and State Bar of Texas that will benefit low-income Texas veterans, a leadership change at the Houston Bar Association and the launch of a public service website focused on “adulting.”
Life After Lockstep: Understanding In-House Counsel Compensation
Law firm associates are often surprised at the lack of compensation transparency for in-house positions — particularly in states like Texas where disclosure is not required. But understanding a typical in-house counsel compensation package is a crucial part of considering a transition from a law firm to a corporate legal department.
Texas Lawbook 50: A New No. 1 for Headcounts and a Three-way Tie for 2nd
On an FTE basis, the Texas Lawbook 50 firms increased lawyer employment by 2.6 percent. The new Lawbook 50 extends a winning streak that began with a net-hiring rush in 2019, took a year off for the pandemic in 2020, then roared back even stronger in the past two years. From 2010 to 2018, the annual headcount was essentially flat, with five up years offset by four down ones. However, the new data may point to a downshifting in the law firm labor market after record gains of 301 lawyers in 2021 and 287 in 2022.
In 2023, 29 firms increased headcounts, 20 firms employed fewer lawyers and one firm stayed even. A shakeup at the top of the Lawbook 50 rankings is the result of shifting the way the Lawbook 50 calculates headcounts to a method used by other legal publications.