With the addition of 25 attorneys to its offices in Houston, San Antonio, and Pittsburgh, Burleson LLP has broadened its regional and national footprint, further strengthening its ability to provide the widest range of legal services to companies and financial institutions in the oil and gas industry (more…)
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Cox Smith Matthews Incorporated (“Cox Smith”) today announced Jane Bockus, J. Patrick “Pat” Ryan and Sandra Zamora have joined the firm as shareholders (more…)
Welcome to the Texas Chronicles, a blog covering Law and Life in the State of Texas featuring up to the minute news on the Texas legal market and related topics. This sister-blog to the Asia Chronicles – Kinney Recruiting’s blog about living and practicing law in Asia and the Pacific Rim – will cover the waterfront […]
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP today announced a major victory for its client, UK-based Smith & Nephew, a worldwide leader in wound care. On October 18, 2010, a Texas Federal Court ruled that patents licensed to San Antonio-based Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI) on negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) are invalid. NPWT is the treatment of difficult-to-heal open skin wounds with the application of negative pressure.
Law firm Thompson & Knight LLP has announced the opening of an office in San Antonio. Firm attorneys Jason Davis, Marina Garcia Marmolejo, and Michael McCrum will head the office, which focuses on complex litigation. This is Thompson & Knight’s fifth Texas office, with other locations in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston.
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Mary Keller has joined Winstead’s Austin office as a shareholder in the Corporate and Securities Group. Her work deals mostly with insurance regulation and regulatory litigation. Keller was formerly an Associate Commissioner of Insurance at the Texas Department of Insurance, as well as a former Texas First Assistant Attorney General. With offices in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, The Woodlands, TX, and Washington, D.C., Winstead is one of the largest business law firms in Texas.
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Former Justice of the Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio, Judge Sarah Duncan, has joined Locke Liddell & Sapp’s Appellate Section. She will be based in Austin, but will still continue work in San Antonio and other parts of the state. One of Duncan’s responsibilities with the Appellate Section is to expand the firm’s […]
Winstead has acquired 12 more Jenkens & Gilchrist lawyers, adding to the 18 they already hired from the San Antonio and Austin offices. Six of the new additions come from Winston’s Dallas headquarters; the other half are leaving the Austin office. Jenkens’ numbers have dropped to under 200 attorneys in recent weeks; it is rumored that most of the remaining Dallas lawyers will move to Hunton & Williams.
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Ten lawyers from Jenkens & Gilchrist’s San Antonio office have joined Jackson Walker’s central Texas office. Four of the lawyers join as partner, one as of counsel, and the remaining five are associates. Two other attorneys from Jenkens are moving to Winstead’s San Antonio office. With the new additions, Jackson Walker’s office now has 30 lawyers. The decision to close Jenkens’ San Antonio office was made in January, and comes after the closing of the firm’s Houston and LA offices.
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275-lawyer Dallas-based firm Jenkens & Gilchrist has increased salaries nationwide, with first-year associates now earning $140,000, The firm’s Texas offices are located in Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. Also announcing raises is Houston firm Porter & Hedges, with first-years making $135,000 plus $5,000 in bonuses. Source: www.law.com
