Denver based Bodman LLP has affiliated itself with Dallas firm Strong & Willcox LLP by way of two of its partners. Staci Strong Heuvel and Misty Willcox joined Bodman as of Counsel but will also continue work at their current firm. Bodman is making this move to give more attention to its clients in Texas.
Source: dallas.bizjournals.com
Perkins Coie has launched an office in Dallas. Steven Smith, formerally a partner at Greenburg Traurig, has joined the firm to act as partner-in-charge. Smith focuses his practice on lending and real estate workouts.
Source: www.dallas.bizjournals.com
Mayer Brown has made a partner addition to its Houston office. Dallas Park has joined the firm in the Corporate & Securities practice. He most recently managed the Houston office of Thompson & Knight.
Source: www.ogfj.com
Bryan Cave has recently hired Chris Gilbert in Dallas as its newest partner. Gilbert specializes in intellectual property litigation but also practices in corporate litigation. He joins the Property and Commercial Litigation Client Service Groups.
Source: www.dallas.citybizlist.com
John Woodruff rejoins Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP. Woodruff was previously with the firm from 2004 to 2008, afterwhich he joined KPMG LLP. He will be stationed in the Houston office as a partner in the tax group. Gardere is an AmLaw 200 firm with offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston and Mexico City.
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Katherine “Kit” Addleman is leaving her post as Atlanta regional director of the Securities and Exchange Commission to become a partner at Haynes & Boone, LLP. For the last 20 years, Addleman has worked in four different SEC regional offices. Addleman will join the Dallas office at the end of October.
Source: www.uk.sys-con.com
Andrews Kurth LLP has gained a partner in Dallas. Marc D. Katz is joining as a partner in the Labor and Employment department. Katz brings with him, Cristina I. Torres as an associate to the Dallas office.
Source: www.prweb.com
Haynes and Boone has taken on John Podvin in Dallas. He is to join the finance group as of counsel. Podvin was previously deputy general counsel, chief compliance officer and chief privacy officer with a subsidiary of Guaranty Financial Group Inc. Prior to that position, Podvin was a partner at Bracewell & Giuliani (then Bracewell Patterson, LLP).
Source: www.lawfuel.com
Baker Botts has added two notable attorneys to its intellectual property group. Ann Hurwitz and Will K. Wood are now partners in the firm’s Dallas office. They both join from DLA Piper where they were partners.
Source: www.au.sys-con.com
Jones Day has welcomed Karen Gren Johnson to its Dallas office as partner. Johnson, a litigation attorney, was previously a state district judge for eight years. She also has 18 years of experience in private practice in the field of civil litigation.
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Hunton & Williams has been busy. The firm won over 8 employment lawyers from Akin Gump and is launching an office in San Francisco. Of the 8, four are partners, and four are associates. Laura Franze, joining co-chair of the employment group, will work out of Los Angeles and Dallas. Roland Juarez will also join the Los Angeles office. The San Francisco office will be led by poached partner, Fraser McAlpine, who will also be based out of Houston. Also in San Franisco, Brett Burns joins as partner, and Anna Suh as associate. Justin Smith, Richard Cortez and Jennifer Reith, all associates, will join the Dallas office.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Four female attorneys, Jane Taber, Dawn Estes, Jessica Thorne and Lori CarrFour, are launching their own law firm entitled Taber Estes Thorne & Carr PLLC. All founding four were formerly at the Dallas office of Gardere Wynne Sewell. Together, they bring more than 70 years of big law firm experience in the fields of litigation, labor & employment, and corporate matters.
Source: www.reuters.com
