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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Jackson Walker is pleased to welcome partner Will Montgomery to the firm. Mr. Montgomery joins the Litigation group in the Dallas office (more…)

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Jackson Walker is pleased to welcome partner Aaron R. Allred to the firm. Mr. Allred joins the Corporate & Securities group in the Dallas office (more…)

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Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C., a law firm with over 100 attorneys and offices in Dallas, Houston and Austin, Texas, announces that Associates Zachery Z. Annable and Randel A. Canché have joined the firm (more…)

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SNR Denton announced today that Rolando Pablos has joined the firm’s Public Law & Policy Strategies practice as a Senior Advisor. He brings more than a decade of public policy and business planning advisory services experience to the firm and its US and global clients (more…)

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Gordon & Rees LLP, a full-service litigation and business transactions firm, continues its national expansion with a new 10-attorney office in Austin and two additional attorneys in the Houston office.  Austin is the firm’s 19th U.S. office, closely following the opening of an office in Atlanta in February 2011.  The 12 attorneys join Gordon & Rees from Clark, Thomas & Winters and will increase Gordon & Rees’s presence in Texas to more than 40 attorneys in Austin, Dallas and Houston.

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Within the past two years, including most recently in December 2010, the Dallas office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has established a solid track record of victories in asylum cases, winning pro bono matters on behalf of victims of persecution based on political beliefs or sexual orientation. The attorneys have won three asylum cases and one “no deport” outcome for clients ranging from individuals to families of dissidents from Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP was counsel to Darling International Inc., a leading provider of rendering, recycling and recovery solutions to the nation’s food industry based in Irving, Texas, in its acquisition of Griffin Industries, one of the largest privately owned rendering, bakery by-product and used cooking oil recycling companies in North America. 
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Patton Boggs has boosted its Dallas office with the hire of a new partner. Scott Deatherage departs Thompson & Knight to join Patton Boggs. He practices climate change and renewable energy law.

 

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Jackson Walker has made a partner hire at its Fort Worth office. David Seidler has joined the firm’s litigation practice. He specifically practices commercial litigation, insurance defense and alternative dispute resolution.

 

Source: dallas.dbusinessnews.com

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Jackson Walker has hired a new partner for its Dallas office. Tracey Wallace will practice Labor & Employment law. Wallace received her J.D. From Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.

 

Source:  www.dallas.dbusinessnews.com

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Thompson & Knight LLP has hired Mark Weibel as its newest partner in Dallas. Weibel departs from Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P to make the move. He brings along four associates: Bryan L. Larson, Bryan D. Garner, Christopher W. Neilson, and Shannon Fey Stapp. The team focuses on real estate law.

 

Source:  www.prnewswire.com

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