Morgan Lewis announced Wednesday that Bracewell practice group leaders Janice Davis and Robert Sheeder have joined its Dallas office.
The Texas Lawbook reported Tuesday that a handful of lawyers from Bracewell were leaving for Morgan Lewis. An of counsel and associate are also making the move with Davis and Sheeder.
Davis co-led Bracewell’s technology transactions practice, while Sheeder chaired the firm’s labor and employment practice.
Davis has significant experience advising clients in the healthcare sector. Last year, she advised Brazos Presbyterian Homes and BHP Holding Co. in its acquisition of Longhorn Village, an entrance fee life plan community in Austin, through a member substitution transaction. In another deal, she advised East Texas Medical Center Healthcare System in a sale of essentially all of its assets to Ardent Health Services.
Sheeder represents clients in disputes involving discrimination, harassment, collective and class actions, union organizing, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), noncompetition covenants and trade secrets protection, whistleblowing, and wage and hour issues. He has argued 15 cases on appeal and successfully defended one of the first Sarbanes-Oxley cases in Texas.
One of Sheeder’s victories involved defending the Belo Corporation and The Dallas Morning News in a large collective action and multiplaintiff age discrimination case where summary judgment was granted against all 18 plaintiffs.
The signing of the Dallas group led by Davis and Sheeder comes one month after Morgan Lewis lured a trio of New York Bracewell partners.