Richard Faulk, who will split his time between Texas and Washington, D.C., joins ADJT from Hollingsworth LLP in the nation’s capital.
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David Tallman focuses his practice on mortgage and consumer lending issues, financial privacy and information security requirements.
Schiff Hardin Dallas Partner Tracey Wallace Named Lambda Legal National Co-Chair
Wallace will serve a two-year term.
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.
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.
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.
T&K Announces 2016 Management Committee
Mark Sloan, the recently-elected managing partner, will lead the nine-member committee.
T&K Announces 2016 Management Committee
Mark Sloan, the recently-elected managing partner, will lead the nine-member committee.
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.
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.