Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce the firm has added 14 Texas-based lawyers—including eight partners—to its offices in Austin, Dallas and Houston. The group represents a major expansion of the firm’s capabilities in the Texas legal market, particularly in the areas of insurance, banking and finance, eminent domain, government affairs, and governmental disputes. All attorneys join Husch Blackwell from Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP. More >>
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Foley & Lardner LLP and Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP today announced the successful combination of the two firms, effective April 1, 2018. More >>
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Shearman & Sterling is delighted to announce the opening of a new office in Austin – its first in Texas – with seven partners focusing on advising emerging growth companies in the technology, media and telecommunications, and life sciences industries. The new Austin-based corporate partners are Matthew Lyons, Carmelo Gordian, Alan Bickerstaff, Ted Gilman, Brian Dillavou and Russ Denton. They are joined by litigation partner David Whittlesey and investment funds counsel J.R. Morgan. They all join the firm from Andrews Kurth Kenyon. More >>
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Energy industry attorneys Todd Kimbrough and Dane McKaughan have joined Holland & Knight’s Austin, Texas, office as partners. They were both previously with Greenberg Traurig. More >>
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Jackson Walker LLP is pleased to welcome four lateral partners across its Texas-based offices. Meghan Griffiths has joined the firm in Austin, along with Jay Dewald and Michele Schwartz in Dallas, and Michael Shaw in Houston. All four partners come from Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP. More >>
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Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Michael Klein to its Litigation Department and Insurance Industry Group as a member in the firm’s Austin office. Klein joins Dykema after practicing at the Austin office of Sedgwick LLP. More >>
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Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce Elizabeth G. Myers has joined the Firm’s Austin office as a Partner in the Trial Practice Group. More >>
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King & Spalding today announced that Lana Varney, Lisa Horvath Shub and Stephen Huffaker have joined as partners in the Life Sciences practice in the firm’s Austin office. Varney, Shub and Huffaker were previously partners at Norton Rose Fulbright where all three had spent their entire legal careers. More >>
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Continuing its strategic growth in Texas, global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added Shareholders C. Mark Stratton and Craig A. Duewall as well as Associate Erik M. Weber to the Austin office’s Litigation Practice. The trio focuses on energy and commercial litigation matters and joined the firm from Shannon, Gracey, Ratliff & Miller, LLP. Additionally, Suchismita Pahi has joined the firm’s Dallas office as an associate in the Cybersecurity, Privacy and Crisis Management Practice. More >>
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Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that Joshua Bernstein, an experienced real estate lawyer, has joined the global law firm’s Austin and New York offices as a partner. Norton Rose Fulbright has also hired associates Emily Jung and Katie Van Dyk, who worked with Bernstein at his previous firm, Greenberg Traurig LLP. More >>
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