Winstead PC has rehired Dale Butler as a shareholder in the construction practice group. Formerly with Winstead from 1995 to 2008, Butler brings more than 15 years of legal experience in construction contract drafting, construction litigation and arbitration, and civil litigation to Winstead’s Fort Worth office (more…)

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce Daniel L. Geyser has joined the firm as an of counsel in the Dallas office, after serving for the past four years in the Office of the Solicitor General of Texas.  Geyser will continue to focus his practice on complex appellate matters and cutting-edge issues arising in constitutional and business litigation (more…)

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SNR Denton announced today that Mark Thomas has joined the firm’s Dallas office as a partner in its Tax practice. Thomas joins SNR Denton from Alcon Laboratories, Inc., where he served as Senior Tax Counsel (more…)

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Morgan Lewis today announced that Stefanie Moll—a past Chair of the Houston Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section—has joined the firm as partner in its Labor and Employment practice, resident in Houston (more…)

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Jackson Walker is pleased to welcome Jonathan Lass to the firm. Mr. Lass joins the Intellectual Property group in the Austin office (more…)

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KRCL is pleased to announce that John Inabnett has joined the Firm as an Associate practicing in the Real Estate Section of the Dallas office (more…)

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Veronica Lewis and Brian Robison have joined the Dallas office as partners (more…)

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Winstead PC is pleased to announce the addition of Rebecca J. Rentz as of counsel in the energy & environmental law practice group. Formerly with Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, Rentz brings over a decade of valued environmental law experience to Winstead’s Houston office. Her focus is on state and federal air quality matters including enforcement, permitting, regulatory proposals, and corporate transactions (more…)

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By: Daniel Roark and Chris Miller

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 on topics related to the practice of law (and life generally) in Texas. We hope to provide useful information for lawyers practicing outside the state and for those that are already here. Readers are encouraged to weigh-in on the topics we cover and, with your help, we can establish a comprehensive informational site that will strive to be every bit as dynamic as the growing legal market it covers. There is much to cover, so we are anxious to get started.  Again, Welcome (Howdy).

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Perkins Coie announced today that David Herbert has joined the firm as a partner in its Real Estate practice. He joins the firm in Dallas where he has practiced real estate law for nearly 30 years (more…)

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public finance lawyer who has handled transactions for municipalities, counties and school districts, among others, joined Fulbright today as a partner (more…)

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represented The Dallas Morning News, Belo Corp. and other defendants in a win against 18 former employees, who filed a lawsuit under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), after they were laid off in a round of job cuts in 2004 (more…)

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