In a move that adds a premier corporate team to its Houston office, Paul Hastings LLP announced today that David Elder, Christopher Centrich, and Patrick Hurley have joined the firm. The trio arrive from the Houston office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.

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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Audrey F. Momanaee has joined the firm’s Houston office as partner in the Commercial Litigation group. As an accomplished litigator, Audrey focuses her practice on matters involving business disputes, commercial and contract claims, catastrophic property claims, construction defects and delays, and matters involving trade secret protection and litigation. She joins Blank Rome from Balch & Bingham where she led the firm’s litigation practice in Texas.

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Carl von Merz, a highly regarded corporate attorney with two decades of experience advising on large scale energy industry transactions, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in Houston, where he will serve as head of the firm’s U.S. Oil and Gas practice. Von Merz joins Hunton Andrews Kurth from Mayer Brown LLP, where he served as leader of the firm’s Houston Corporate Practice and head of its U.S. Upstream Energy Practice.

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Holland & Knight has bolstered its Public Policy & Regulation Group with the addition of Jason Hill as a partner in Houston. Mr. Hill counsels clients regarding complex natural resource and energy statutes and regulations in compliance, regulatory and litigation matters. He was previously counsel at Hunton Andrews Kurth.

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Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that Scott Nelson has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department in Houston. He will lead the Department’s Labor and Employment practice. He joins the firm from Hunton Andrews Kurth.

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Skadden is pleased to announce that Michelle Scheffler has joined the firm as a litigation partner in our Houston office. Ms. Scheffler’s practice focuses on advising major oil and gas companies, publicly traded and privately owned independents, and private equity investors at trial and in other complex disputes in the energy sector. She has extensive experience leading matters related to mass and class action royalty litigation, leasing conflicts, operating agreements and title disputes, among other areas of controversy, and regularly represents clients in high-stakes lawsuits in state and federal courts nationwide. Scheffler arrives from Haynes & Boone LLP in Houston.

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King & Spalding announced today that energy and construction lawyer Terra Cothran has joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s Houston office. Cothran joins the firm from Bechtel Energy, where she was the Commercial Manager and Senior Counsel in charge of negotiating and advising on a wide variety of upstream, midstream and downstream EPC contracts for energy projects.

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