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…)

Accomplished Dallas business trial attorneys Ladd Hirsch and John Tancabel join Winstead’s Business Litigation Practice Group as shareholders in the firm’s Dallas office. The duo brings a well-established Business Divorce practice to the firm representing majority business owners and substantial minority investors who have conflicts arising out of their ownership interests in private companies. (more…)
Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Charles Haag to the firm’s Transactions Department as a partner in Dallas. Charles is a seasoned capital markets and securities attorney who joins Winston from Jones Day. (more…)
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that the firm is expanding its presence in Texas with seven new partners based in Dallas. The move deepens Katten’s award-winning practice that handles sophisticated corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and transactional capabilities for its clients in numerous industries across the country and overseas. The new partners were all previously with Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP in Dallas. (more…)
Morgan Lewis today continues its substantial growth in Houston over the last year as it welcomes M&A and corporate partner Sameer V. Mohan. Mr. Mohan, who arrives from another global law firm, expands Morgan Lewis’s services to energy and healthcare clients involved in complex domestic and cross-border transactions. (more…)

McGinnis Lochridge—a legal fixture in Austin for 90 years—today announced that 10 lawyers will join the firm on February 1, bringing decades of experience in a wide variety of corporate and transactional matters, as well as estate planning and tax matters. This well-respected group had been at the prestigious Austin-based firm Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody. (more…)
Will Becker has joined Locke Lord’s Dallas office as a Partner in the Firm’s Tax Department. Becker is well versed in federal income, Texas franchise and sales and use tax matters, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, REITs, real estate joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions, corporate reorganizations, spin-offs and restructurings. Becker, who joins the Firm from Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP where he was a Partner, assists clients in analyzing a variety of tax matters and their impact on corporations, S corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, real estate investment trusts, hedging transactions and other derivative transactions. (more…)
Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that Todd A. Schroeder, a well-respected tax lawyer with significant experience advising a broad array of clients on complex tax planning and tax structuring matters, has joined the global law firm as a partner in its Dallas office. He comes to Norton Rose Fulbright from Baker McKenzie. (more…)