Global law firm White & Case LLP has added new partner Steven Otillar to its Oil & Gas Industry Group in Houston. (more…)
Hunton & Williams LLP and Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP announced today that both partnerships have approved an agreement to combine effective April 2, 2018, to become Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP. (more…)
WSHB proudly announces its newest office in Dallas, Texas. Nationally acclaimed litigator Robert Hellner, a veteran partner of WSHB, leads the Dallas office. Senior Counsel Dana Withers and Justin England join Hellner. (more…)
Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, continued its Texas expansion with a team of five international trade lawyers and business professionals, led by partners Michelle Schulz and Elsa Manzanares in Dallas. The group joins Akerman’s Government Affairs and Public Policy Practice Group from a regional law firm, where Schulz and Manzanares served as co-chairs of the International Trade Group. Schulz also served as chair of the International Practice. Akerman also welcomes practice group attorney Kim Carlson, senior trade advisor Troy Shaffer and trade analyst Matthew Savage. (more…)
Nossaman LLP has expanded its Healthcare Practice Group in its Austin office with the addition of prominent healthcare litigation attorney Jody Rudman, who joins the Firm as a Partner. Ms. Rudman joins the Firm after years as a partner in law firm private practice. Prior to private practice, Ms. Rudman served as an Assistant United States Attorney with a significant focus on healthcare fraud cases, a Dallas County Assistant District Attorney, and a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas. (more…)
Winston & Strawn LLP has made another significant lateral group hire enhancing the firm’s energy industry capabilities. Following the arrival of a group of six energy and infrastructure partners hires from Norton Rose Fulbright in late January, Winston is pleased to announce that litigators Hugh Tanner and Denise Scofield have joined the firm in Houston. Hugh previously served as managing partner of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP’s Houston office, and also chaired its oil and gas litigation group initiative. This group expands Winston’s existing energy team in Houston along with other recent additions, including Doug Atnipp, who joined from Greenberg Traurig where he served as the firm’s co-managing shareholder of the Houston office and co-chair of the energy practice group, and of counsel Brenda Hanzl. (more…)
Global law firm White & Case LLP has opened an office in Houston to further strengthen its leading Global Oil & Gas Industry Group, initially adding three new partners to the Firm and relocating a fourth. The Firm expects to announce a number of further lateral partners in the coming weeks. (more…)
Michelle Scheffler, a commercial litigator with deep experience in the oil and gas arena, has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP as a litigation partner, continuing the firm’s expansion of its energy practice. (more…)
George Craft, Jr. has rejoined Winstead PC as a shareholder with the firm’s Real Estate Development & Investment and Finance & Banking Practice Groups. Craft most recently practiced with Porter & Hedges, and was an associate in Winstead’s Real Estate Finance and Finance & Banking Practice from 2010 to 2016. Prior to practicing law, he was a credit analyst and a commercial real estate lender with a national bank. (more…)
The increasingly complex issue of immigration in the U.S. has prompted Kane Russell Coleman Logan to expand its Labor & Employment Law group to include attorney James D. Prappas. James is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Immigration and Nationality Law and brings valuable insights and solutions to the immigration issues faced by the firm’s business and individual clients. James will work in the firm’s growing Houston office. (more…)
Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP is pleased to announce that Scott R. McLaughlin and Marlene C. Williams have joined the Litigation Practice Group as partners in the Houston office, expanding its service offerings in labor and employment law, including enforcement of non-compete agreements and trade secret disputes. Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Mr. McLaughlin and Ms. Williams served as partners at Jackson Walker. (more…)
Seasoned corporate lawyer Bill McDonald has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP’s Houston office as a partner in the firm’s Capital Markets and Securities Practice. McDonald most recently was a partner at Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP. (more…)
