Orrick announced today that Gabriel Salinas has joined the firm as a partner in its M&A and Private Equity practice and Latin America team, resident in its Houston office. Orrick launched its Houston office earlier this year and has rapidly grown it to 42 lawyers drawing on top-tier talent in the Texas market. Gabriel joins Orrick from Mayer Brown. (more…)

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Dickinson Wright PLLC continues its North American expansion with the opening of its seventeenth office in Austin, Texas. Joining Dickinson Wright’s Austin office as Members will be Corporate & Securities attorney, Darrell R. Windham and Intellectual Property attorneys Ross Spencer Garsson and K. Lance Anderson. (more…)

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Kelly Hart & Hallman is pleased to announce that James C. Scott joins the firm as a partner in the Litigation Practice Group, Fort Worth office. Mr. Scott practice centers upon civil litigation at the trial and appellate levels in a broad range of commercial matters including oil and gas litigation, and financial and real estate litigation. (more…)

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Labor and employment attorney Charles Jeremiah has joined Holland & Knight’s Houston office as a partner. He was formerly a partner with Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith. (more…)

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King & Spalding announced today that Jeffery K. Malonson has joined the firm’s corporate and energy teams as a partner in its Houston office. (more…)

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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has expanded its U.S. and cross-border labor, employment and workplace safety practice with the addition of Houston partner Nickolas G. Spiliotis. He joins K&L Gates from Texas-based law firm Jackson Walker LLP. (more…)

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Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced today that Elizabeth Brandon has joined the firm’s Dallas office as a partner in the Litigation Department. (more…)

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Yetter Coleman is pleased to announce that Tim McConn has joined the firm as a partner. A highly-regarded commercial trial lawyer, Tim’s practice focuses on representing clients as plaintiffs and defendants principally in the upstream and midstream sectors of the oil and gas industry. McConn joins the firm from Andrews Kurth, where he was a partner. (more…)

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Bankruptcy and restructuring attorney Karl D. Burrer has joined global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder in the firm’s Houston office and a member of its Business Reorganization & Financial Restructuring Practice. Burrer and colleague Lenard M. Parkins, who also recently joined Greenberg Traurig, will help to expand the firm’s bankruptcy and restructuring practice in Texas. Parkins will split his time between the Houston and New York offices. Both attorneys previously practiced law at Haynes and Boone. (more…)

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Bracewell LLP is pleased to welcome Annette L. Tripp as a partner in the Houston office. Tripp joins the firm from Thompson & Knight LLP. (more…)

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Dallas-based law firm Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC (KRCL) has deepened its bench with the addition of J. Edward Johnson and Patrick H. Rose, IV. (more…)

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Vinson & Elkins continues to enhance its global Intellectual Property practice with the addition of five highly regarded partners in Austin and Dallas who have a broad range of patent, copyright, trademark, trade secrets and complex commercial litigation experience. The new partners arrive on the heels of the hiring of two IP partners on the […]

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