DLA Piper announced today that Karen Nelson has joined the firm’s national Health Care Enforcement and Compliance practice as of counsel in the Austin office. Previously, Nelson served as Deputy Inspector General and Chief Counsel for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s (HHSC) Office of Inspector General (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP represented Atlantic Power Corporation, John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.) and Rockland Capital, LLC in their sale of Gregory Power Partners, L.P. to NRG Energy, Inc (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Spectra Energy with liability management and the financing elements of the company’s MLP drop-down transactions (more…)
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the State of Texas lodged in federal district court in San Antonio a proposed consent decree with the San Antonio Water System (SAWS) resolving claims regarding sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs). SAWS is a public utility owned by the City of San Antonio, providing sewage treatment and wastewater services to the city (more…)
Waller, a nationally recognized law firm with offices in Austin, today announced that healthcare attorney Amanda K. Jester has joined its Austin office as partner. Formerly a partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, in Miami, Fla., Jester focuses her practice on advising and representing a vast range of healthcare clients including private equity funds, physician practices, hospital and health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers and pain management clinics (more…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
Andrews Myers PC today announced its expansion in Texas with the opening of an office in San Jacinto Center at 98 San Jacinto Blvd, Suite 300, Austin. The new office is the culmination of a longstanding desire by Andrews Myers to enter the capital city’s progressive and entrepreneurial market and the Central Texas region. Many of the firm’s Texas corporate law clients have operations in the Central Texas region, and this office will allow Andrews Myers to improve service to those clients and develop new relationships. The Austin office opens with Jason Spencer, new firm Shareholder and Texas construction law attorney. He is formerly a Shareholder of the local office of Ford Nassen & Baldwin, leading the initial group of Austin-based attorneys.
McGuireWoods LLP today announced that Kevin Duddlesten has joined the firm’s Labor and Employment Department as a partner in Austin, where he will represent employers in all areas of labor and employment law (more…)
The partners of Husch Blackwell LLP and Brown McCarroll LLP have voted to combine their ranks. Both firms concluded the partner ballot process necessary to merge the two firms on June 18, with an effective date of July 1, 2013. The combined firms will move forward together in all markets as Husch Blackwell LLP (more…)
So, you have been presented to a prospective employer, and have been invited to interview. Now what? A simple question, right? The answer is both yes and no. Having worked as a legal recruiter for 15+ years, I never assume anything when it comes to preparing a candidate for an interview. It is folly to […]
