Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Sarah M. Paxson as a partner in the Firm’s Dallas office. Ms. Paxson focuses her practice on patent infringement, trade secret and trademark litigation. In addition to providing litigation and litigation avoidance services, she counsels clients on licensing issues and proper development and management of intellectual property assets (more…)
The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce the addition of John Pinkerton as Counsel and Craig Carpenter as an Attorney in the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in Dallas (more…)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is pleased to announce that a seven-partner team will be joining the firm’s Dallas office. Soon to join the firm’s corporate practice are Tom Yang, Garrett DeVries and Matt Zmigrosky, who will continue their focus on strategic mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and securities, including private equity transactions. Soon to join the firm’s litigation practice are Marty Brimmage Jr., Mike Warnecke, Arnold Spencer and Sarah Teachout, who will continue their focus on white collar, government investigations, antitrust, false claims matters, bankruptcy litigation and commercial litigation. All seven are partners in the Dallas office of Haynes and Boone, LLP (more…)
The Dallas legal jobs market is on a continued growth pattern. Here are some of the major attorney career moves that continued the trend in September.
Paul Downey and William Morton joined Kane Russell’s real estate practice. They bring years of broad real estate experience to the group.
Partner Tracey Davies joined Gibson Dunn from V&E. Her practice focuses on IP litigation, particularly in life sciences. “Tracey will be a terrific addition to the firm,” said Rob Walters, Co-Partner in Charge of the Dallas office. “A splendid trial lawyer and widely recognized in the life sciences arena, Tracey is an emerging star in Texas and nationally.”
In another major IP move, Paul Storm was recruited to Gardere to continue his long IP litigation career. A graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, Storm was previously practicing in a boutique he founded in 2005.
If you are a Dallas attorney looking for a new job, or are considering a move to Dallas from another top legal market, now could be the best time to talk to an attorney headhunter. Contact Kinney Recruiting today to learn more about this news and other hot topics relating to your job search.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP advised a special committee of MetroPCS’ board as that company signed an agreement with Deutsche Telekom to combine T-Mobile USA and Texas-based MetroPCS into one unit under the “T-Mobile” name. If consummated, the deal would represent one of 2012’s largest deals to date in terms of transaction value (more…)
Looper Reed & McGraw welcomes Jason Luter as an Associate in the Dallas Tax Section. Luter has extensive experience in all types of executive compensation, ERISA and employee benefit matters (more…)
A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP attorneys advised, as Texas counsel, Panda Power Funds on the completion of secured financing to develop a natural gas-fired power plant in Sherman, Texas (more…)
On September 25, Mediacom Communications Corporation entered into a distribution agreement with TiVo Inc. to provide TiVo’s next-generation whole home DVR solution to Mediacom subscribers (more…)
Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC is pleased to announce the addition of two transactional real estate lawyers to its Dallas office. Paul V. Downey joined the Firm as Senior Counsel and William T. Morton, as an Associate, on September 24, 2012 (more…)
Jackson Walker successfully represented its client Timberline Knolls, LLC in the sale of substantially all of its assets to Acadia Healthcare Company Inc (more…)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Tracey Davies has joined the firm’s Dallas office as a partner. Previously at Vinson & Elkins, she will continue to focus on patent litigation, primarily in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries (more…)
Two Haynes and Boone, LLP attorneys represented American Airlines, Inc. in negotiation of a Capacity Purchase Agreement (CPA) between American and SkyWest Airlines, Inc (more…)
