Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP announced that a team of four AmLaw 50 patent lawyers and their staff have joined the firm’s Houston office. Carey Jordan, Iona Kaiser and Jeremy Harrison will join as partners and Donna Haynes will join as of counsel. (more…)
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to announce that esteemed employment lawyer Shafeeqa Watkins Giarratani has joined the firm as the co-managing shareholder of the Austin office. Giarratani joins Ogletree Deakins from Norton Rose Fulbright, where she led that firm’s Austin-based employment group and federal contractor practice. Giarratani has a track record of achieving favorable results for clients in litigating employment claims in state and federal courts and administrative tribunals. She brings a wealth of experience in employment law counseling, including pay equity, whistleblower claims, and federal contractor/affirmative action compliance. (more…)
Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann L.L.C. is expanding its energy and industrial practices with the addition of five lawyers from internationally recognized Cogan & Partners LLP. This combination will enable Stone Pigman to better serve clients in the project development and natural resources sectors, and will establish a Houston office for Stone Pigman. John P. Cogan, Jr. and Michael Anthony Nunes joined Stone Pigman as Members, and John P. Cogan III, Carlos A. Morán and James A. Cogan joined as Special Counsel. (more…)
Chad Mills will be leaving Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, LLP’s Houston office to Haynes and Boone, LLP where he will join the firm’s Commodities Trading and Finance and Projects practices. (more…)
Continuing its strategic growth in Texas, global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added Shareholders C. Mark Stratton and Craig A. Duewall as well as Associate Erik M. Weber to the Austin office’s Litigation Practice. The trio focuses on energy and commercial litigation matters and joined the firm from Shannon, Gracey, Ratliff & Miller, LLP. Additionally, Suchismita Pahi has joined the firm’s Dallas office as an associate in the Cybersecurity, Privacy and Crisis Management Practice. (more…)
Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that Joshua Bernstein, an experienced real estate lawyer, has joined the global law firm’s Austin and New York offices as a partner. Norton Rose Fulbright has also hired associates Emily Jung and Katie Van Dyk, who worked with Bernstein at his previous firm, Greenberg Traurig LLP. (more…)
Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has added Darren Gibson as a shareholder in the Austin, Texas, office. Gibson was previously a senior associate at O’Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath. (more…)
Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that Brett Young, a complex commercial litigation lawyer, has returned to its Houston office as partner. He started his legal career with Norton Rose Fulbright in 2003, advancing to partner before departing to K&L Gates LLP in 2014. (more…)
