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The Texas Legislature’s 85th Regular Session poses new and old challenges. The Texas House has 22 freshman members. The Senate has three fresh faces. The House also has eight vacant committee chairmanships, including House Appropriations, House Public Education and House Natural Resources.
The state’s biennial revenue estimate showing the state’s financial condition is about $105 billion for 2018-18, which is down $8 billion. What des it all mean? This article has the details.
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, a 1,200 lawyer global firm, is expected to announced this week that it is expanding its presence in Texas by opening a branch operation in Houston. The law firm, which has has 55-lawyers in Dallas, launch into Houston by luring eight partners who specializes in energy transactions and tax law from Baker Botts and Latham & Watkins, plus one corporate general counsel who is rejoining the law firm world. The Texas Lawbook has the details.
Tom Melsheimer planned to practice at Fish & Richardson for the rest of his career. Then Winston & Strawn came calling. The Chicago-based firm convinced the former federal prosecutor that he can significantly expand his complex commercial litigation practice nationally. Plus, the firm made him a generous compensation offer. In this Texas Lawbook exclusive, Melsheimer explains how it all came together.
Winston & Strawn is officially launching an office in Dallas with two-dozen partners from eight different law firms. The Chicago-based law firm has lured business litigators Tom Melsheimer, Steve Stodghill and Matt Orwig and corporate transactional attorneys Bryan Goolsby and Tom Hughes to lead North Texas outpost. Legal industry analysts say it is one of the largest law office openings in Texas by a national firm. The Texas Lawbook has exclusive details.
Winston & Strawn is officially launching an office in Dallas with two-dozen partners from eight different law firms. The Chicago-based law firm has lured business litigators Tom Melsheimer, Steve Stodghill and Matt Orwig and corporate transactional attorneys Bryan Goolsby and Tom Hughes to lead North Texas outpost. Legal industry analysts say it is one of the largest law office openings in Texas by a national firm. The Texas Lawbook has exclusive details.
Morgan focuses her practice on litigation matters. She has represented private colleges, collegiate sports conferences and hotel owners in addition to publicly-traded and closely held corporations.
On Inauguration Day, the Trump administration froze the issuance of new regulations, including those defining master limited partnership qualifying income. While the final MLP qualifying income regulations by the Obama Administration were a significant improvement over the proposed regulations issued in May 2015, they still reflect a more restrictive view of the scope of MLP qualifying income than prevailed in the IRS and the industry prior to May 2015. The fate of the regulations in the wake of the Trump’s freeze is unclear.
Jeremy Mouton and Robert Viguet will lead the firm’s Property & Finance and Corporate practice groups, respectively.
Former Locke Lord appellate partner Skip Watson is Davis, Gerald & Cremer’s fifth attorney in the state capitol. In January, the firm made big news with the additions of trial lawyers Shannon Ratliff and Lisa Paulson.
Michelle Hunter announced she will retire on Jan. 26, 2018 after nearly 20 years of service to the 100,000-member organization.
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