Denver based Bodman LLP has affiliated itself with Dallas firm Strong & Willcox LLP by way of two of its partners. Staci Strong Heuvel and Misty Willcox joined Bodman as of Counsel but will also continue work at their current firm. Bodman is making this move to give more attention to its clients in Texas.

Source:  dallas.bizjournals.com

Perkins Coie has launched an office in Dallas. Steven Smith, formerally a partner at Greenburg Traurig, has joined the firm to act as partner-in-charge. Smith focuses his practice on lending and real estate workouts.

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Bryan Cave has recently hired Chris Gilbert in Dallas as its newest partner. Gilbert specializes in intellectual property litigation but also practices in corporate litigation. He joins the Property and Commercial Litigation Client Service Groups.

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Most of the big law firms in Texas have delayed start dates and decreased salaries for first year associates. Five big law firms refused to provide data on new associates in their Texas offices including: Baker & McKenzie; Brown McCarrol; Fulbright & Jaworski; Greenberg Traurig; and King & Spalding. The other firms offered this data: there are a combined 358 new associates scattered across these 21 firms. Last year there were 397 new associates. 125 associates, or one-third, will not start until January 1, 2010 or later.

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Katherine “Kit” Addleman is leaving her post as Atlanta regional director of the Securities and Exchange Commission to become a partner at Haynes & Boone, LLP.  For the last 20 years, Addleman has worked in four different SEC regional offices.  Addleman will join the Dallas office at the end of October.

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Andrews Kurth LLP has gained a partner in Dallas.  Marc D. Katz is joining as a partner in the Labor and Employment department.  Katz brings with him, Cristina I. Torres as an associate to the Dallas office.

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Haynes and Boone has taken on John Podvin in Dallas. He is to join the finance group as of counsel.  Podvin was previously deputy general counsel, chief compliance officer and chief privacy officer with a subsidiary of Guaranty Financial Group Inc. Prior to that position, Podvin was a partner at Bracewell & Giuliani (then Bracewell Patterson, LLP).

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Baker Botts has added two notable attorneys to its intellectual property group. Ann Hurwitz and Will K. Wood are now partners in the firm’s Dallas office. They both join from DLA Piper where they were partners.

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Jones Day has welcomed Karen Gren Johnson to its Dallas office as partner.  Johnson, a litigation attorney, was previously a state district judge for eight years.  She also has 18 years of experience in private practice in the field of civil litigation.

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Four female attorneys, Jane Taber, Dawn Estes, Jessica Thorne and Lori CarrFour, are launching their own law firm entitled Taber Estes Thorne & Carr PLLC. All founding four were formerly at the Dallas office of Gardere Wynne Sewell. Together, they bring more than 70 years of big law firm experience in the fields of litigation, labor & employment, and corporate matters.

Source:  www.reuters.com