The highly regarded, Chambers-rated, Houston intellectual property trial firm of Slusser Wilson & Partridge, L.L.P. has joined forces with the internationally regarded firm Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Bill Slusser, Mike Wilson and Jayme Partridge have extensive jury trial experience in patent cases. Each has an engineering degree and excels at making technical issues understandable (more…)
Earl M. (Chip) Jones, III has returned as a shareholder to Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the nation’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, in its growing Dallas office. Jones, with a background in both in-house and law firm environments, will join Littler’s robust Corporate Compliance and Ethics practice. Jones was previously an attorney at Littler from 1994–2002 (more…)
Morgan Lewis today announced that J. Todd Culwell—a transactional attorney with nearly 20 years of experience advising clients on electric power, LNG and other infrastructure projects—has joined the firm as partner in its energy transactions practice, resident in Houston. He focuses his practice on the development financing, acquisitions and divestitures of energy infrastructure projects in the United States and internationally (more…)
Adams and Reese welcomes Benny C. Pace to the firm’s Houston office and as the new Banking and Finance Team Leader in Texas. Pace previously served as the former head of the banking and finance section at several Texas law firms, including Ross, Griggs & Harrison, the Houston office of Kelly Hart & Hallman, and also the former head of the financial entities section at Chamberlain Hrdlicka (more…)
KRCL is pleased to announce that David Clem has joined the Firm as an Associate practicing in the Litigation and Financial Services sections of the Dallas office (more…)
The Dallas-based technology law firm Munck Carter, LLP, is strengthening its commercial litigation practice group with the addition of experienced litigator Joshua J. Bennett (more…)
Robert Kantner has joined global law firm Jones Day as a Trial Practicepartner in the Dallas Office. Mr. Kantner focuses on intellectual propertyand related antitrust and commercial litigation (more…)
The firm is representing Petrohawk Energy Corporation in connection with its acquisition by BHP Billiton in a transaction valued at approximately $15.1 billion. The transaction, which is subject to at least a majority of the outstanding Petrohawk shares being tendered and other customary conditions, is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2011 (more…)
If you take a look at our new job postings at www.kinneyrecruiting.com, you will see numerous immediate opportunities in the major Texas markets. Hiring in Texas has increased tremendously in ‘11 and we are now seeing multiple-offer situations for our candidates, and firms and in-house departments are making hiring decisions at a pre-recession pace. It […]
Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Christopher D. Kratovil to its Litigation practice, as a member in the firm’s Dallas office. Prior to joining Dykema, Kratovil was a partner at K&L Gates. Kratovil is a former law clerk to the Honorable Edith H. Jones, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (more…)
BHP Billiton and Petrohawk Energy Corporation (“Petrohawk”) announced late yesterday that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement for BHP Billiton to acquire Petrohawk for $38.75 per share by means of an all-cash tender offer for all of the issued and outstanding shares of Petrohawk, representing a total equity value of approximately $12.1 billion and a total enterprise value of approximately $15.1 billion, including the assumption of net debt (more…)
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that it has named partner Steven G. Spears as partner-in-charge of the Firm’s Houston office, effective immediately. Spears, a partner in McDermott’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group, will be responsible for overseeing, and implementing the Firm’s strategic regional business objectives, and ensuring that the Firm’s Houston office effectively meets the needs of the Firm’s current and future client base (more…)
