Texas law firm Vinson & Elkins has announced that it will open an office in Abu Dhabi. Vinson & Elkins also has an office in Dubai, making it the first American firm to have offices in both Middle Eastern legal centers. London energy partner Lewis Jones will move to Abu Dhabi to head the office as an administrative partner.
Source: www.legalweek.com
Dallas firm Gwinn & Roby has closed its doors. The defense firm once housed 200 attorneys in three offices throughout Texas. Source blame HB 4, a tort reform measure set in 2003, for the downfall of the firm.
Source: www.texaslawyer.com
Lanier Law Firm, a litigation firm based out of Houston, has announced the opening of a Los Angeles office. The firm, which opened a New York office in 2005, has placed counsel Shepard Hoffman and associate Julie Drenner in the West Coast branch.
Source: texaslawyer.typepad.com
The merger between Locke Liddell & Sapp PLLC and Lord Bissell & Brook LLP becomes official as of today. The new firm will be called Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP and has 700 attorneys in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Sacramento and Washington, D.C..
Haynes and Boone LLP has announced that Leigh Ganchan will soon head the firm’s Houston immgration practice. Ganchan is certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization as an Immigration and Nationality expert and has worked at the US Immigration and Naturalization Service. Additionally, she is currently the chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association Liaison Committee.
Source: lawfuel.com
From 1996 to 1999, Ganchan gained insight into the enforcement side of immigration law during her tenure as an Assistant District Counsel for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. She currently serves as chair for American Immigration Lawyers Association Liaison Committee to the Texas Service Center and sits on the AILA National Liaison Committee to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services headquarters. She’s also editor-in-chief for the 2006 edition of “Handbook on Immigration for Entertainers, Artists, Athletes” and was selected for the International Who’s Who in Immigration Law for 2007.
Ganchan, a 1991 graduate of the University of Alabama, earned her law degree at American University’s Washington College of Law and holds a diploma from the Universite Paris X in European and International Legal Studies. She also earned a post-graduate degree from the University of Vienna.
Haynes and Boone, LLP is an international corporate law firm with offices in Texas, New York, Washington, D.C., Mexico City and Moscow, providing a full spectrum of legal services. With more than 450 attorneys, Haynes and Boone is ranked among the largest law firms in the nation by The National Law Journal. The firm has been recognized by Vault.com as one of the “20 Best Law Firms to Work For,”
by Corporate Board Member Magazine as one of the “Best Corporate Law Firms in America,” and has received the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s Thomas L. Sager Award for its commitment to diversity.
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Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP has announced that it has hired Rachel Giesber Clingman as Co-Partner-In-Charge of their Houston office as well as leading their nationwide business litigation practice. Clingman, formerly of Fulbright & Jaworski, has been recofnized by EnergyLaw260 as one of the top five female attorneys working in energy and won BTI’s 2007 Client Service Award.
Source: houston.dbusinessnews.com
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP has announced that litigation partner Bretton C. Gerard will join the firm’s Dallas office. Gerard specializes in business litigation, focusing on real estate, partnership and property disputes. He is also very skill in mediation and arbitration.
Source: lawfuel.com
Locke Liddell & Sapp and Lord Bissell & Brook LLP have announced that two firms will merge in early October. The new firm, which will be called Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP, will house over 700 attorneys and will have around $400 million is gross revenue. Current Dallas managing partner Jerry Clements of Liddell & Sapp will head the new firm.
Source: www.bizjournals.com
Sutherland Asbill & Brennen LLP has announced that they will add a former Fulbright & Jaworski Litigation partner to their Houston office. Steven L. Roberts, who brings almost three decades of courtroom experience to the position, specializes in energy, admiralty and professional services litigation.
Source: houston.dbusinessnews.com
Fort Worth firm Kelly Hart & Hallman opened a Houston office this week. Partnering the new office ar James Derrick, David Hedges, Max Hendrick and J. Clark Martin, all of Vinson & Elkins. The office will hopefully grow to 21 attorneys, and the firm has an additional office in Austin. Kelly Hart & Hallman opened the Houston branch in order to optimize contact with large energy companies.
Source: www.star-telegram.com
Houston- and Dallas-based firm Locke Liddell & Sapp has announced that all levels of attorneys will see a pay increase beinning retroactively on August 1st. Associates will start out at $160,000 and move to $170,000 their second year. Thirds years will earn $172, 500; fourth-years $175,000; fifth years $180,000; sixth years $185,000; seventh-years $190,000; and eighth-years $195,000.
Source: texaslawyer.com
Dykema Gosset P.L.L.C., a law firm based out of Detroit, announced this Wednesday that it will be opening a Dallas office. The new branch will be composed of commercial litigators, although Dykema hopes to expand to corporate, real estate and financial practices over the next few years. Darrell Jordan, the attorney who ran for mayor of Dallas last year, will head the new office.
Source: crainsdetroit.com
