Mississippi-based Butler Snow announced Thursday that it has added four commercial litigators and one healthcare litigator to its Austin office. The commercial litigators join from Beck Redden, while the healthcare litigator joins from Bowman & Brooke. Details on who in this article.
Chip Brooker Starts His Own Firm
In the D Magazine building of downtown Dallas, Brooker has opened up his own shop, Brooker Law PLLC, where he will continue his plaintiffs’ litigation practice representing individuals and families nationwide in cases involving wrongful death and personal injury.
The Bezos Divorce: Lessons to be Learned for All Corporate Execs
One of the richest pairs on the planet are divorcing. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and novelist MacKenzie Bezos are calling it quits after 25 years. Their high profile wealth, estimated at $137 billion, makes it big news – but news that will likely fade because they seem to have followed a few basic rules. Charlie Hodges and Brian L. Webb explain those rules.
Lawyer Discipline: State Bar of Texas
Three lawyers have resigned from the bar and six others have received suspensions as the result of disciplinary actions by the State Bar of Texas. The Texas Lawbook has the details as reported by state disciplinary authorities.
New CBRE Report Highlights Factors for Law Firm Growth in Texas
As the legal environment becomes more competitive, law firms are expanding into markets that offer lower costs, strong business environments and large, growing millennial populations – including markets like Austin, Dallas and Houston – according to a new report from commercial real estate firm CBRE.
Bill Nelson-Led Capital Markets Group Officially Joins Shearman
Shearman & Sterling officially announced this week that it has bolstered its capital markets practice in Houston with a team of four attorneys from Haynes and Boone led by partners
Haynes and Boone Capital Markets Co-Chair Bill Nelson Headed to Shearman
Bill Nelson, a partner and co-chair of Haynes and Boone’s capital markets and securities practice in Houston, is joining Shearman & Sterling’s recently opened Houston office, sources confirmed. Nelson’s departure would leave a gaping hole in Haynes and Boone’s corporate practice in Houston. The Lawbook’s Claire Poole has the story.
Analysis: Are Several More Corporate Firms Looking to Open in Texas? Yes. Well, Maybe
The flood of national and regional law firms moving into Texas shows no sign of slowing. A dozen more out-of-state firms may be looking to open a new office in Dallas or Houston during the next six months, according to 36 legal industry insiders interviewed by The Texas Lawbook. We have the names and some denials.
Texas Firms Face Unthinkable Problem: Not Enough Lawyers
Dallas and Houston suddenly face a shortage of experienced, high-quality business attorneys to handle the growing legal needs of their clients. Sixteen corporate firm leaders tell The Texas Lawbook that the short supply of talent in Texas is their biggest challenge to growth and it is driving up the price of legal services.
Updated: TX Law Firm Leaders: 2018 is ‘Best Year Ever’ for Business … So Far
Large and mid-sized law firms representing businesses in Texas are doing more work and generating more revenues this year than they ever have before. Seventy-five percent of the biggest corporate law firms operating in Texas say that they are witnessing a record year in revenues and profits so far, according to a new Texas Lawbook survey of law firm leaders.