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Mayer Brown Boosts Financial Services Practice in Houston

David Tallman focuses his practice on mortgage and consumer lending issues, financial privacy and information security requirements.

March 9, 2016 Mark Curriden

Schiff Hardin Dallas Partner Tracey Wallace Named Lambda Legal National Co-Chair

Wallace will serve a two-year term.

March 9, 2016 Mark Curriden

Bell Nunnally Senior Counsel Sonja McGill Selected to 2016 Class of LCLD Fellows

McGill will spend her “Fellow” year building relationships, participating in in-person training and peer-group projects and maintaining contact with LCLD’s leadership.

March 9, 2016 Mark Curriden

Winstead Taps Houston Shareholder Teresa Schneider to be Chief Recruiting Officer

Schneider will lead talent acquisition efforts at all levels for Winstead’s seven offices nationwide.

March 9, 2016 Mark Curriden

Quan Law Group Promotes Angelique Montano to Partner

Montano represents corporate clients and individuals in employment and family-based immigration matters, including court proceedings, analysis of immigration consequences of crimes and achieving employer compliance.

March 9, 2016 Mark Curriden

T&K Announces 2016 Management Committee

Mark Sloan, the recently-elected managing partner, will lead the nine-member committee.

March 9, 2016 Mark Curriden

T&K Announces 2016 Management Committee

Mark Sloan, the recently-elected managing partner, will lead the nine-member committee.

March 9, 2016 Mark Curriden

A Glimmer of Hope for the Energy Industry? Navigating Your Way Out of the Overtime Abyss

It is no secret that the energy industry has been ravaged. If $30-per-barrel oil was not bad enough, KRCL Directors AJ Johnson and Robert Rickman say energy companies have another woe to add to the list – opportunistic plaintiff’s attorneys that have focused their crosshairs squarely on oilfield pay practices.

The exposure can be colossal, bu Johnson and Rickman say there are some powerful arrows that oil and gas companies can put in their quivers to combat the slew of lawsuits being filed.

March 8, 2016 Mark Curriden

Texas Law Firms Exporting their M&A Expertise

M&A data shows that large Texas-based law firms hemorrhaged talent and long-time, local clients to elite national firms that set up new outposts in Dallas and Houston during the past six years. The same data also indicates that some of the legacy Texas firms – Akin Gump, Baker Botts, Bracewell and V&E – are increasingly exporting their expertise in oil and gas law to energy companies and private equity firms headquartered beyond the state’s borders.

“The Texas legal market is maturing before our eyes,” says law firm consultant Ward Bower.

March 8, 2016 Mark Curriden

Texas Law Firms Exporting their M&A Expertise

M&A data shows that large Texas-based law firms hemorrhaged talent and long-time, local clients to elite national firms that set up new outposts in Dallas and Houston during the past six years. The same data also indicates that some of the legacy Texas firms – Akin Gump, Baker Botts, Bracewell and V&E – are increasingly exporting their expertise in oil and gas law to energy companies and private equity firms headquartered beyond the state’s borders.
“The Texas legal market is maturing before our eyes,” says law firm consultant Ward Bower.

March 8, 2016 Mark Curriden

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  • P.S. — Austin Bar Foundation Honors Legal Leaders, Witherite Law Brings Holiday Cheer  - The Austin Bar Foundation has announced the recipients of its annual gala awards, which will be held Jan. 24 in Austin. Proceeds from the gala benefit the Austin Bar Foundation, a nonprofit that funds law-related community initiatives aimed at expanding access to legal services, promoting public legal education and supporting attorney well-being. 

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Bill Benitez
Jessica Berkowitz
Brent Bernell
Tyler Bexley
Shawn Blackburn
Michael Blankenship
Jeffrey Brill
Anita Brown
Ian Brown
Stuart Campbell
Jack Chadderdon
Paul Clement
Erin Nealy Cox
Scott Craig
Kevin Crews
Shamus Crosby
Hannah M. Crowe
Geoffrey Culbertson
Sean Cunningham
John Daywalt
Rajiv Dharnidharka
James Ducayet
Brian K. Erickson
Scott Everett
Weiru Fang
Elizabeth Freeman
Tad Freese
Melanie Fry
Geoff Gannaway
Paul Genender
John J. Gilluly III
Rodney Gilstrap
Andrew Gorham
John Greer
Joseph Grinstein
Matthew Haddad
Colleen Haile
Breen Haire
Shahmeer Halepota
Dionne Hamilton
Troy Harder
Rusty Hardin
Michael Hawes
Nathan Hecht
Stephen Hessler
Hillary Holmes
Marc Jaffe
Lauren Jenkins
David Jones
Atma Kabad
Susan Kennedy
David Kinder
Justin King
Allan Kirk
Melanie Koltermann
Doug Kubehl
Joe Laurel
Sang Lee
Steven Lockhart
Arthur Lotz
Barbara Lynn
Mike Lynn
Nora McGuffey
Stephanie McPhail
Mark Melton
Jeri Leigh Miller
Kimberly A. Moore
Mark Moore
Shelby Morgan
Alia Moses
Davis Mosmeyer III
Darren Nicholson
Eamon Nolan
Ivy Nowinski
Holland O’Neil
George Padis
Ian Peck
Jonathan Platt
Chase Proctor
Doug Rayburn
Joel Reese
Kevin Richardson
Andrew Rodheim
Seth Rubinson
Mazin Sbaiti
Ana Sanchez
Vincenzo Santini
Jeffrey Scharfstein
Robert Schroeder III
Scott Seidel
Steven Sexton
Ahmed Sidik
Robert Slovak
Emily Smith
Melissa R. Smith
Jonathon Soler
Robert Soza
Lande Spottswood
Craig Stanfield
Justin Stolte
Josh Teahen
Kelly Tidwell
Linda Tieh
Rafael B. de Toledo
Monica Uddin
Rhett Van Syoc
Rahul Vashi
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Patrick Venter
Sarah Walden
Kandace Walter
Kyle Watson
Mikell Alan West
Noël Wise
Meng Xi

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Jackson Walker
King & Spalding
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Latham & Watkins
Lynn Pinker
Mayer Brown
MoloLamken
Pamela Welch PLLC
Patton Tidwell Culbertson
Paul Hastings
Porter Hedges
The Probus Law Firm
Reese Marketos
Rusty Hardin & Associates
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Simpson Thacher
Skadden
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Sullivan & Cromwell
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