Andrews Myers PC, known for its core range of legal services critical to mid-market businesses, announces that Timothy C. “Tim” Ross has joined the firm as Senior Counsel (more…)
A trusts and estate-planning attorney has joined the Houston office of Fulbright as senior counsel (more…)
Haynes and Boone, LLP won a significant appellate victory yesterday for the firm’s client, ARGO Data Resource Corporation. The Dallas Court of Appeals reversed a judgment in a shareholder oppression case and rendered a take-nothing judgment in favor of ARGO. The court also reversed and rendered a take-nothing judgment on contract and derivative claims the minority shareholder asserted against Max Martin, ARGO’s majority shareholder (more…)
Dykema today announced the addition of Kimberly L. Kiplin, former General Counsel of the Texas Lottery Commission, as Senior Counsel in the Firm’s Government Policy practice group. Kiplin, who retired from the Texas Lottery Commission effective August 31, will be based in Austin (more…)
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is pleased to announce the addition of intellectual property litigator Paul Storm as a partner in the Firm’s Dallas office. He joins Gardere’s prominent roster of trial lawyers, bringing his extensive experience and significant courtroom expertise in trying patent infringement cases as well as copyright, trade secret, and trademark disputes (more…)
Dykema today announced the addition of John C. Dickey to its Corporate Finance Practice Group as a member in the firm’s Dallas office. Prior to joining Dykema, Dickey was a shareholder with Greenberg Traurig LLP, where he was Practice Group Leader of the Dallas office’s Corporate & Securities Section (more…)
King & Spalding has recruited Erika Serran Toussaint to join its global disputes practice as a counsel in its Houston office as the firm continues to expand its international investment treaty and cross-border commercial disputes practice in the United States and abroad, the firm announced today (more…)
Daniel Nossa joins the Energy practice and the Derivatives group in the Houston office at Jackson Walker (more…)
DLA Piper advised BP in the US$2.5 billion agreement to sell its Southern California refining and marketing business to San Antonio-based refiner Tesoro Corp (more…)
In an exciting development for the firm’s Austin office, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP has announced that Erika D. Benson is taking on a new legal job at the firm. The partner, who has 13 years of experience at the U.S. Department of Energy, brings extensive government relations and energy capabilities to the office (more…)
Jackson Walker L.L.P. represented J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc. in the successful completion of a $25 million 144A senior debt offering on August 20, 2012 (more…)
On August 13, 2012, Andrews Kurth LLP, a recognized leader in the diversity and inclusion arena, filed an Amicus Brief on behalf of its client the Houston Community College System (“HCC”) in support of the Respondents in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, et al., Case No. 11-345, now pending before the United States Supreme Court. Oral arguments are scheduled for October 10, 2012 (more…)