Porter Hedges trial team representing Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) secured victory in a jury trial alleging rape, sexual harassment, and fraud. After hearing almost four weeks of testimony, jurors rejected claims by a former employee that she was drugged and raped by several KBR firefighters while working for the company in Iraq in 2005 (more…)
Law firm Winstead PC has officially hired the 39th lateral attorney for 2011, surpassing their Texas lateral hiring total from 2010 by 18 lateral hires already, and the firm isn’t finished hiring yet. This week, Winstead welcomes shareholders Jay W. Brown, Hilary C. Borow, and Steve Wedemeyer to the commercial litigation practice group. The three shareholders were previously with Beirne, Maynard and Parsons, L.L.P, and are joined by eight associates and eight support staff (more…)
In a move to expand the midstream and upstream energy deal-making capabilities of its preeminent Private Equity practice, international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has added Rodney L. Moore as a partner in the firm. He joins Weil from Vinson & Elkins LLP and will split his time between Weil’s Houston and Dallas offices (more…)
Porter Hedges today announced that Jonathan M. Pierce — an intellectual property attorney who specializes in patent and trademark law, as well as intellectual property agreements — has joined the firm as a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice. His clients include multinational corporations, domestic companies, and individuals in all aspects of intellectual property law (more…)
Attorney Patrick Garcia, a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Department of Justice in El Paso, Texas, has joined the Houston office of the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP. He joins as an associate in the Litigation and White Collar Defense practice areas (more…)
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that on July 1, 2011, the Firm officially opened its Houston, Texas office, which resulted from the combination, announced last month, with Houston-based litigation boutique Abrams Scott & Bickley, L.L.P. In addition to the five partners and various other professionals from Abrams Scott & Bickley, including Barry Abrams, Robert Scott, Susan L. Bickley, Sue D. Rosenthal and Jack W. Higdon; Blank Rome Partner Joseph F. Speelman will also reside in the Houston office (more…)
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (“Mitsui”) announced yesterday that it, through its subsidiary Mitsui E&P Texas LP, has entered into a definitive agreement with SM Energy Company (“SME”) to acquire a 12.5% working interest in SME’s Eagle Ford property in Texas, which is approximately 47,000 net acres and includes 39,000 net acres of Eagle Ford Shale (more…)
The Firm represented the lead arrangers, led by Royal Bank of Canada, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and Société Générale, in connection with a $667 million secured construction, term and letter of credit facility to Sharyland Projects, L.L.C. and represented affiliates of Prudential Insurance Company of America in connection with the purchase of $60 million of secured fixed rate notes from Sharyland Projects to finance in part the construction of 300 miles of high voltage transmission lines and four substations in the Panhandle and South Plains regions of Texas to be leased to Sharyland Utilities, L.P (more…)
With the addition of 25 attorneys to its offices in Houston, San Antonio, and Pittsburgh, Burleson LLP has broadened its regional and national footprint, further strengthening its ability to provide the widest range of legal services to companies and financial institutions in the oil and gas industry (more…)
The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced that Patricia M. Rosendahl has joined its Houston office as of counsel in the Litigation Practice. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Rosendahl was of counsel with Coats Rose Yale Ryman & Lee (more…)
Winston & Strawn LLP announced today that Denton (Denny) Thomas has joined the firm’s Houston office as senior counsel in the firm’s most recent move to strengthen its highly-regarded national tax practice (more…)
Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that experienced Houston oil and gas attorney, Shahid A. Ghauri, has joined the firm as a Partner (more…)
