Kurt Nondorf has recently joined the Houston office of Jackson Walker LLP as managing partner. His position entails the overseeing of the firm in its Houston location. Nondorf was previously head of transactions section in the firm’s Dallas branch, where he practiced commercial real estate.
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Law firm Epstein Becker & Green has announced that they will be consolidating their Texas practice to the Houston market, and thus will be closing their Dallas branch. The 13 attorneys housed in Dallas have been offered positions in the Houston office or in any Epstein Becker office they choose. Representatives of Epstein Becker say this move will strengthen and improve their Houston practice.
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The Houston-based law firm Baker Botts has reported an increase in profits by 19 percent for 2007. Profits per equity partner (PEP) surged to 18.6 percent at a new record of $1.3 million, an increase from last year’s $1.09 million. Revenues were also up, with turnovers at just under 15 percent.
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Law firm Thompson & Knight LLP has announced the opening of an office in San Antonio. Firm attorneys Jason Davis, Marina Garcia Marmolejo, and Michael McCrum will head the office, which focuses on complex litigation. This is Thompson & Knight’s fifth Texas office, with other locations in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston.
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Lanier Law Firm, a litigation firm based out of Houston, has announced the opening of a Los Angeles office. The firm, which opened a New York office in 2005, has placed counsel Shepard Hoffman and associate Julie Drenner in the West Coast branch.
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The merger between Locke Liddell & Sapp PLLC and Lord Bissell & Brook LLP becomes official as of today. The new firm will be called Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP and has 700 attorneys in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Sacramento and Washington, D.C..
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP has announced that it has hired Rachel Giesber Clingman as Co-Partner-In-Charge of their Houston office as well as leading their nationwide business litigation practice. Clingman, formerly of Fulbright & Jaworski, has been recofnized by EnergyLaw260 as one of the top five female attorneys working in energy and won BTI’s 2007 Client Service Award.
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Haynes and Boone LLP has announced that Leigh Ganchan will soon head the firm’s Houston immgration practice. Ganchan is certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization as an Immigration and Nationality expert and has worked at the US Immigration and Naturalization Service. Additionally, she is currently the chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association Liaison Committee.
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From 1996 to 1999, Ganchan gained insight into the enforcement side of immigration law during her tenure as an Assistant District Counsel for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. She currently serves as chair for American Immigration Lawyers Association Liaison Committee to the Texas Service Center and sits on the AILA National Liaison Committee to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services headquarters. She’s also editor-in-chief for the 2006 edition of “Handbook on Immigration for Entertainers, Artists, Athletes” and was selected for the International Who’s Who in Immigration Law for 2007.
Ganchan, a 1991 graduate of the University of Alabama, earned her law degree at American University’s Washington College of Law and holds a diploma from the Universite Paris X in European and International Legal Studies. She also earned a post-graduate degree from the University of Vienna.
Haynes and Boone, LLP is an international corporate law firm with offices in Texas, New York, Washington, D.C., Mexico City and Moscow, providing a full spectrum of legal services. With more than 450 attorneys, Haynes and Boone is ranked among the largest law firms in the nation by The National Law Journal. The firm has been recognized by Vault.com as one of the “20 Best Law Firms to Work For,”
by Corporate Board Member Magazine as one of the “Best Corporate Law Firms in America,” and has received the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s Thomas L. Sager Award for its commitment to diversity.
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Sutherland Asbill & Brennen LLP has announced that they will add a former Fulbright & Jaworski Litigation partner to their Houston office. Steven L. Roberts, who brings almost three decades of courtroom experience to the position, specializes in energy, admiralty and professional services litigation.
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Houston- and Dallas-based firm Locke Liddell & Sapp has announced that all levels of attorneys will see a pay increase beinning retroactively on August 1st. Associates will start out at $160,000 and move to $170,000 their second year. Thirds years will earn $172, 500; fourth-years $175,000; fifth years $180,000; sixth years $185,000; seventh-years $190,000; and eighth-years $195,000.
Source: texaslawyer.com
Fort Worth firm Kelly Hart & Hallman opened a Houston office this week. Partnering the new office ar James Derrick, David Hedges, Max Hendrick and J. Clark Martin, all of Vinson & Elkins. The office will hopefully grow to 21 attorneys, and the firm has an additional office in Austin. Kelly Hart & Hallman opened the Houston branch in order to optimize contact with large energy companies.
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Sutherland Asbill & Brennan has recruited top litigation partner, Rachel Giesber Clingman, for its Houston office. Formerly employed with Fulbright & Jaworski, Clingman will be the Co-Partner-in-Charge of the Houston office as well as the head of a national business litigation group. Clingman handles energy and environmental litigation, and was named as one of the five top Women in Energy by EnergyLaw360. Sutherland is dedicated in its efforts to expand its Texas energy practice; the Houston office has also added talent in other practices such as banking, real estate, and immigration. The firm has offices in Atlanta, Austin, Houston, New York, Tallahassee and Washington.
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