Fulbright & Jaworski has gained four litigation partners from fallen Texas firm Jenkens & Gilchrist. Rodney Acker, Theodore Daniel, Ellen Bush Sessions and Guy Wade will all join Fulbright’s Dallas office as partners. This is the second group of Jenkens partners that Fulbright has recruited. In January, the entire Houston tax team joined Fulbright.
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Seven real estate lawyers from varied firms have joined Thompson & Knight in its New York and Dallas offices. The New York office hired John B. Wood and Bohdan “Bud” S. Kosvych from Sussman, Sollis, Tweedy & Wood. In Dallas, Jay Gibson and Laura McClellan joined as partners, while Misty Willcox, Sean D. Hawkins and Meg Squiers joined as associates. Gibson came from Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons; McClellan left Foster Pepper in Seattle; Willcox came from Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr; Hawkins left Vinson & Elkins; and Squiers returned to Thompson & Knight after taking a leave. These new additions boost the firm’s real estate and banking practice to 54 lawyers.
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Sutherland Asbill & Brennan has gained eight lawyers from Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. Partners Scott Hobby, Charles Hollis, III, Derek Johnston and John Miller, Jr., along with Counsel Timothy Dodson and three associates, will join noted technology and licensing Partner Peter Quittmeyer to create a new Outsourcing/Systems Integration practice within Sutherland’s Corporate Group. Hobby will chair the new practice. This Outsourcing/Sysytems Integration practice has over 20 years experience structuring, negotiating, and documenting domestic and offshore outsourcing services arrangements. Sutherland has over 450 lawyers in offices in Atlanta, Austin, Houston, New York, Tallahassee and Washington.
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Gary Short has joined Jones Day as a partner in the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice. Working out of the Dallas office, Short will focus on the treatment of employee benefit plans and executive compensation in business transactions. He also has done work designing, implementing, and administering benefit plans; he has handled governmental plans as well. Short was formerly a partner with Vinson & Elkins. Jones Day is one of the world’s largest law firms, with over 2,200 laywers practicing in 30 offices around the world.
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Locke, Liddell & Sapp is welcoming back Former White House counsel, Harriet Miers, as a partner. At Locke Liddell, Miers will rejoin the public policy group and the litigation group, working out of the Dallas, Austin, and DC offices. She left the firm in 2001 to work in the Bush administration; she become White House counsel in 2005. Mier was also nominated to the Supreme Court in 2005, but she withdrew her name from the race. Mier only just decided a few weeks ago to return to her former firm; she felt she was ready to get back to work, and that Locke Liddell’s reputation and people were a huge draw to her.
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Several Texas lawyers have made lateral moves to new firms recently. Bruce A. Cheatham and Brice E. Tarzwell have joined Bracewell & Giuliani in Dallas as partners in the corporate and securities practice. Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold’s Austin office has hired partner Mike Shaunessy, associate Deborah Loomis and special counsel Taline Manassian in the commercial law practice. Additionally, Sean C. Urich has joined Winstead’s Dallas office as a labor and employment associate, while William R. Rohrlich II joined the firm in The Woodlands as a corporate associate.
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Jones Day has hired former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, Bruce McDonald. McDonald will work in the firm’s Houston and Washington, DC offices. He began his legal career at Jones Day in 1988, and has worked in the DOJ doing civil antitrust enforcement since 2003. McDonald has experience in a variety of areas including telecommunications, aviation, electricity, and healthcare industries. With over 2,200 lawyers practicing in 30 locations worldwide, Jones Day is one of the world’s largest firms.
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Tyree C. Collier has joined Thompson & Knight as a partner in the Tax practice of the Dallas office. Collier specializes in the representation of nonprofit organizations, including large and small private foundations, hospitals and health systems, university-affiliated organizations, private schools, fundraising organizations, other types of public charities, and non-charitable tax exempt organizations. Thompson & Knight has around 420 attorneys in offices in North America, South America, Europe, and Africa.
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Bracewell & Giuliani’s Dallas office has hired a new labor & employment team. Robert E. Sheeder and Marc D. Katz, formerly partners in Jenkens & Gilchrist’s Dallas office, will join as partners. Sheeder’s practice focuses on employment-related litigation, arbitration, employment discrimination and representing employers in collective bargaining and labor union organization campaigns. Katz focuses on the management-side of labor and employment litigation and counseling. Gail N. Salcido and Donna G. Hiltenbrand will also join Bracewell & Giuliani as associates.
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Former Justice of the Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio, Judge Sarah Duncan, has joined Locke Liddell & Sapp’s Appellate Section. She will be based in Austin, but will still continue work in San Antonio and other parts of the state. One of Duncan’s responsibilities with the Appellate Section is to expand the firm’s […]
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has opened a new Dallas office. U.S. attorney, Matthew Orwig, will join the law firm on June 1 to serve as Dallas managing partner and national chair of Sonnenschein’s Government Litigation and Investigations Group. Cyberlaw attorney Matthew Yarbrough and ERISA lawyer David Cowart are also immediately joining the office as partners. Yabrough joins from Fish & Richardson, and Cowart from the now-dissolved Jenkens & Gilchrist. The Dallas office will focus on intellectual property litigation, government litigation and investigations, health care enforcement and compliance, and ERISA. Sonnenschein expects to seek new office space within a year as its new office expands.
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Texas lawyers have been on the move recently. Jeremy Gaston has joined Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw as a partner in Houston, while Jeffery Oldham has joined the firm as a litigation associate. Nickolas G. Spiliotis has joined Winstead’s Houston office as an associate with the labor and employment section. Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr’s Dallas office has hired three new attorneys: D. Ronald Reneker, shareholder, litigation; John L. Thompson, associate, litigation; and Brian P. DeVoss, senior associate, real estate.
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