International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced a decisive expansion of its Dallas office as two new teams of leading M&A and technology and outsourcing lawyers joined the Firm.
The two new teams, which may comprise up to 15 lawyers, arrive from the Dallas office of another AmLaw 50 law firm. With these additions, the number of lawyers in McDermott’s Dallas office more than doubles as the Firm moves to take advantage of new strategic opportunities in this important and growing market. The two new groups, taken together, add a technology focus to McDermott’s transactional practice that complements its existing strengths in adjoining practices such as Intellectual Property (IP) and Health. (more…)
Joel S. Allen has brought his successful, nationwide employment litigation practice to McGuireWoods as a new partner in the firm’s rapidly growing Dallas office, which has quadrupled in size since it opened 14 months ago (more…)
Leading Texas-based design professionals attorney Mitchell S. Milby has joined Wilson Elser’s Dallas office as a partner.
The founder and sole shareholder of his former firm, Milby PLLC in Dallas, Milby says he has moved his practice to Wilson Elser because of its national, full-service platform and its high-caliber lawyers. (more…)
Dykema, a leading national law firm, has combined with Texas-based Cox Smith. The combination gives Dykema a significantly expanded presence in Texas, where Cox Smith has been a leading firm with deep history. The additional depth in key practices, coupled with the combined firm’s broader geographic reach, enhances the range of services available to firm clients. With the addition of Cox Smith’s more than 100 lawyers, the combined firm consists of more than 425 attorneys in 15 offices. In Texas, the firm is operating under the name Dykema Cox Smith. (more…)
David Heidenreich has joined Carrington Coleman as a Partner focusing on oil and gas and real estate development and investment, with continuing industry interest in the multifamily and hospitality sectors (more…)
McGlinchey Stafford PLLC is pleased to announce the addition of Monica S. Thompson as Of Counsel in its Consumer Financial Services group in the firm’s Dallas office (more…)
Schiff Hardin is pleased to announce that Stephen L. Sapp joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate and Securities group. With more than 25 years’ experience practicing law, Mr. Sapp joins Schiff Hardin from Locke Lord LLP and is based in the firm’s new Dallas office. (more…)
Morgan Lewis is further expanding its government enforcement and contracts capabilities with the additions of highly accomplished government contracts litigators and counselors Robert J. Sherry and Sheila A. Armstrong, who have joined as partners in the Dallas office. Mr. Sherry also will practice in San Francisco. (more…)
Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that accomplished courtroom attorney Robert “Rob” Hoffman has joined the firm as a partner in Dallas.
A trial lawyer for more than three decades, Mr. Hoffman has handled a wide array of complex, high exposure, commercial litigation matters nationwide. His successful track record helped him earn recognition as one of the top 15 “Business Defenders” in North Texas as selected by the editors of the Dallas Business Journal. He joins Andrews Kurth from Dallas’ Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP. (more…)
Polsinelli welcomes new shareholders Michael D. Pegues and Jason A. Wietjes to its Dallas office to bolster the firm’s growing national Intellectual Property & Technology Litigation Group. Drawing upon more than 20 years of extensive experience in complex IP disputes, Pegues focuses on patent litigation while Wietjes works with both established and start-up tech firms to strategically defend, enforce and monetize their intellectual property (more…)
Two prominent Dallas trial firms are announcing a merger to form Gruber Hurst Elrod Johansen Hail Shank LLP, one of the largest litigation-focused boutiques in Texas.
The merger of Gruber Hurst Johansen Hail Shank LLP and Elrod PLLC brings together 30 experienced and accomplished attorneys devoted to business litigation for corporations and individuals across a broad range of industries. (more…)
To bolster its Intellectual Property (IP) practice, national law firm Wilson Elser hired premier IP/entertainment attorney Lawrence Waks, formerly of Jackson Walker LLP, as of counsel in its Dallas office. (more…)
