The elite Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges announced leadership changes in its Dallas offices on Wednesday.
Courtney Marcus, who has been the Weil Gotshal Dallas office managing partner for the past decade, is stepping down after a decade in the role to focus more on leading the firm’s banking and finance practice group.
The firm, which will celebrate 40 years in Dallas in 2027, is turning to tax law partner Jonathan Macke and banking and finance partner Vynessa Nemunaitis to lead its north Texas operations.
“I can’t think of two better people to take over this role,” Marcus, who also serves on Weil Gotshal’s management committee, said in an interview.
With 15 offices globally, Weil has about 1,100 lawyers at the firm, including 40 lawyers in Dallas and 19 in Houston.
Marcus said that Macke and Nemunaitis, who have been hiring partners at the firm, will “focus on strategic growth, which includes lateral and organic growth.”
“The marketplace is competitive at the associate and partner levels,” she said. “Weil, having been here for nearly 40 years, has weathered the changes.”
Texas Lawbook 50 data shows that Weil Gotshal lawyers in Texas generated more than $91 million in 2023, which was an eight percent increase over the prior year.
Nemunaitis, who also serves on the firm’s professional development committee and its diversity executive committee, said Weil Gotshal will focus on growing Weil’s Texas offices by using “resourcefulness and creativity” as its strength.
“It is easy to sell Weil,” said Nemunaitis, who developed a mentoring circle program for the Dallas office, which supplements the existing mentoring program for associates by fostering peer mentoring and providing a forum to discuss diversity-related topics.
Macke chairs Weil Gotshal’s award-winning pro bono committee in Dallas and serves on the Taskforce on Women’s Engagement & Retention (TOWER) and Weil Gotshal’s Professional Evaluation and Compensation Committee.