Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that prominent environmental attorney Danny Worrell will join the firm as a partner in Austin, Texas, where he currently is based, focusing on environmental siting and permitting, especially in contested case hearings before the Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings (more…)

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Jackson Walker L.L.P. successfully represented ST Financial Group, Inc. and its subsidiary, Spirit of Texas Bank, in its merger with Peoples Bank, which was completed on July 12, 2013 (more…)

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Phelps Dunbar LLP announces the opening of a new firm office in Dallas/Fort Worth, established with six attorneys formerly of long-standing Texas firm Cantey Hanger LLP.   This is Phelps Dunbar’s second location in Texas after Houston and 11th office overall (more…)

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Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. (Munsch Hardt), a commercial law firm with more than 110 attorneys and offices in Dallas, Houston and Austin, announces the firm has increased the size of their attorney staff by 3.5% in late June – early July with the addition of four attorneys to the Corporate & Securities, Business Litigation and Insolvency, Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights practice groups. In addition to the attorney growth, Munsch Hardt added six staff positions, of which three were replacements and three were new additions (more…)

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Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. (Munsch Hardt), a commercial law firm with more than 110 attorneys and offices in Dallas, Houston and Austin, announce Michael W. Huddleston has joined as Shareholder, within the commercial litigation practice group. His addition to the Dallas office demonstrates the Firm’s continual commitment to attract top-level talent and offer clients expertise in a broad range of commercial legal areas (more…)

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Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today the addition of Litigation partner Suzanna Bonham to the firm’s Houston office. Bonham joins Seyfarth from Schwartz, Junell, Greenberg & Oathout, LLP (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as the administrative agent, in connection with a $500,000,000 senior secured revolving credit facility for Elevation Resources LLC (more…)

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The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Megan Dredla Hoyt as Counsel in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of the Firm’s Dallas office (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Jimmy Vallee has joined the firm as a partner with the M&A practice in Houston. Mr. Vallee joins from Jones Day, where he was a partner. He is a highly regarded M&A lawyer with a diverse energy client base (more…)

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Burleson LLP, the largest law firm in the country devoted primarily to the oil and gas industry, announced today that Brandy Manning has joined the firm as a partner in its Midland office.  The addition further strengthens Burleson’s Litigation Practice Group and reinforces its regional strategy of delivering a comprehensive range of energy-specific legal services to companies with interests in the Permian Basin (more…)

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Jeff Weems has joined Porter Hedges as a partner in the Litigation Practice Group. After years of working on rigs and as a landman, he has practiced energy law for over 23 years, concentrating on litigation. Mr. Weems primarily represents working interest owners in a variety of energy-related disputes. He also represents service companies, midstream companies and royalty owners (more…)

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Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that it is expanding its platform with a new office in Austin, the firm’s second in the state. The office will be in the Chase Bank Tower, 221 West Sixth Street, in downtown Austin (more…)

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