Haynes and Boone, LLP continues the growth of its Public Finance operations with the addition of partner Kathryn V. Garner to the Houston and Austin offices of the firm (more…)
Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Michael R. King has joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate Department of the Houston office (more…)
Less than a year after opening a Dallas office, national law firm Polsinelli Shughart expands services in Texas with the addition of employee benefits law attorney Henry Talavera as shareholder (more…)
Porter Hedges represented Cameron International Corporation (“Cameron”) in an agreement announced today to acquire the drilling equipment business of TTS Energy Division from TTS Group ASA (Oslo Stock Exchange) in an all cash transaction valued at $270 million (more…)
Cox Smith Matthews Incorporated (Cox Smith) today announced the addition of three experienced and well-known Austin attorneys in its Austin office. Keith Shuley, Phil Slinkard and Mary Schaerdal Dietz were previously partners in K&L/Gates’ Austin office (more…)

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. is pleased to announce the addition of Layne A. Deutscher in the Dallas office of Munsch Hardt as a senior attorney (more…)
Thompson & Knight attorneys Max Ciccarelli, J. Michael Heinlen, and Gary R. Sorden have obtained another courtroom defense win for Dallas-based Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) in an East Texas patent infringement case (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani represented Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) in connection with a $1.25 billion joint venture with a group of investors consisting of GSO Capital Partners LP, TPG Capital, L.P., Magnetar Capital and EIG Global Energy Partners (more…)
The Dallas office of the national law firm of Patton Boggs LLP has substantially expanded its capabilities in the intellectual property arena with the addition of four lawyers formerly affiliated with the Dallas office of SNR Denton (more…)

International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced today that Garland T. Stephens has re-joined the Firm as partner in its Patent Litigation practice in Houston (more…)
Glenn Janik has joined the firm as Counsel in the Dallas office. Mr. Janik will practice with the Intellectual Property and Commercial Litigation Client Service Groups focusing on patent and complex commercial litigation (more…)
A public law attorney with a decade of experience in Texas ethics law has returned to Locke Lord’s Public Law Practice Group. Kimberly M. Bonnen re-joins the Firm as Of Counsel and will work from the Houston and Austin offices, representing clients on matters of Texas ethics laws and other public law legal matters (more…)

