White & Wiggins announced this week that three Dallas attorneys – Kennedy Barnes, Ward White IV and Nnamdi Anozie – have joined the 11-lawyer firm as partners.
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Yearning For Zion: A Massive Child Custody Case Remembered 10 Years After
Ten years ago, Carmen Dusek found herself square in the middle of the largest child custody case ever litigated. The case involved charges of child abuse and rape in a remote compound run fundamentalist religious sect run by Warren Jeffs whose Biblical beliefs included a particularly strident form of polygamy. The case came to include scores of lawyers who volunteered from afar to assure adequate legal representation for some 400 children. She recalls the pride and disappointment to Janet Elliott in The Texas Lawyer.
Three Chicago Law Firms Serve Up Law in Texas Deep Dish Style
By Mark Curriden (May 2) – Kirkland & Ellis, Sidley Austin and Winston & Strawn waged a century-old battle to dominate the Chicago corporate legal community. Now, they are facing off in Texas. War chests have been opened. Firm leaders have nearly unlimited budgets. Multimillion-dollar, multi-year guarantees have been offered and big name lawyers jumped. And all three say they are just getting started. The big investment in Texas seems to be paying off.
Houston Attorney Randy Sorrels Voted State Bar President-Elect
(May 2) In the month-long voting that ended Monday, Houston attorney Randy Sorrels received 58 percent of the 32,445 votes cast. Sorrels defeated Dallas attorney Lisa Blue, who was named on 41 percent of the ballots cast. Write-in candidates received the remaining votes.
McGinnis Lochridge Adds Advisor to Austin Mayor as Special Counsel
Ashton G. Cumberbatch, Jr. has returned to the Austin law firm where he practiced from 1989 to 2002.
Munsch Hardt Elevates Three to Shareholder
The firm also promoted five attorneys to equity shareholder.
Baker Botts Honored with Harris County Bench Bar Pro Bono Award
A committee of Harris County judges and Houston Bar Association President Alistair Dawson selected Baker Botts for the award in large part for the 1,131 pro bono hours the firm performed in support of Hurricane Harvey relief.
Bracewell Partner Appointed to Chair AHLA Affinity Group
Brian Teaff will begin a two-year term in Julay as the chair of the Tax – Tax-Exempt Finance Affinity Group for the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA).
Houston Real Estate Attorney Returns to Winstead
Jim Lloyd practiced most recently at Pillsbury.
Texas Lawyers’ Assistance Program Executive Director Wins Community Leadership Award
Bree Buchanan was recognized by the Legal Professionals Program at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation in Minnesota.