Baker Botts will promote 15 lawyers to partnership status effective Jan. 1, 2013. Nine of those lawyers are from either the firm’s Houston or Dallas office. They are: James Chenoweth,
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Fiscal Cliff Could Endanger Access to Federal Courts
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With Fulbright Merging, Who’s Next?
Circle the Texas wagons. The British are coming!
A half-dozen London-based law firms have been quietly knocking on the doors of managing partners in Dallas and Houston in recent months wanting to talk merger. Several large Texas firms confirmed they’ve been approached by UK firms. “International firms are trolling around Texas right now,” says Winstead Chairman Kevin Sullivan. “We get calls all the time, probably four or five calls from non-US firms in the past few months.”