Duane Morris has added three partners to its Pittsburgh construction litigation team. Albert Bates and Edward Gentilcore joined mid-April from Reed Smith, and John Tedder recently followed. Duane Morris’ construction practice has 43 attorneys firmwide, compared to Reed Smith’s 23. The practice will be particularly focused on nuclear power and international arbitration; the group’s lawyers will represent the builders, designers, and owners of nuclear power plants. Duane Morris recently formed a nuclear power group by combining its construction and energy practices. The firm is looking to expand this new group in Houston especially, as well as New York and Miami.
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Lawyers across the Lone Star State are making career moves. The Dallas office of Thompson & Knight has gained two new real estate and banking partners, and three associates. Ben Tobor left Bracewell & Giuliani to join Greenberg Traurig in Houston as an IP shareholder. Stacy Blakeley has joined Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold in Dallas as a commercial litigation associate. In Austin, Sarah Duncan has joined Locke, Liddell & Sapp as of counsel in the appellate section.
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New York-based Weil, Gotshal & Manges was the number one grossing out-of-state firm in Texas in 2006, according to Texas Lawyer’s ranking. With offices in Dallas, Austin, and Houston, the firm posted $62.9 million in net income last year. Weil, Gotshal was also the top firm in Texas profits per partner and revenue per lawyer. The NY firm has seen rising gross revenues in Texas ever since it opened in Dallas 19 years ago. Following Weil, Gotshal in the ranks were Jones Day of Cleveland, Atlanta-based King & Spalding, Chicago’s Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw and Washington, D.C.-based Howrey. Net income for these top five firms totaled $162.4 million, a 4.6 percent increase from 2005.
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Baker Botts Dallas has hired litigation partner and former Harris County prosecutor Victor Vital. Vital deals mostly with complex commercial matters and business disputes. His cases involve a wide range of claims including breach of contract, fraud, tortious interference, misappropriation of trade secrets, and defamation. Vital was previously a partner in the Dallas office of Haynes and Boone. Baker Botts has 750 attorneys practicing in offices in Austin, Beijing, Dallas, Dubai, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Moscow, New York, Riyadh and Washington.
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Fulbright & Jaworski has gained four litigation partners from fallen Texas firm Jenkens & Gilchrist. Rodney Acker, Theodore Daniel, Ellen Bush Sessions and Guy Wade will all join Fulbright’s Dallas office as partners. This is the second group of Jenkens partners that Fulbright has recruited. In January, the entire Houston tax team joined Fulbright.
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Sutherland Asbill & Brennan has gained eight lawyers from Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. Partners Scott Hobby, Charles Hollis, III, Derek Johnston and John Miller, Jr., along with Counsel Timothy Dodson and three associates, will join noted technology and licensing Partner Peter Quittmeyer to create a new Outsourcing/Systems Integration practice within Sutherland’s Corporate Group. Hobby will chair the new practice. This Outsourcing/Sysytems Integration practice has over 20 years experience structuring, negotiating, and documenting domestic and offshore outsourcing services arrangements. Sutherland has over 450 lawyers in offices in Atlanta, Austin, Houston, New York, Tallahassee and Washington.
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Jones Day has hired former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, Bruce McDonald. McDonald will work in the firm’s Houston and Washington, DC offices. He began his legal career at Jones Day in 1988, and has worked in the DOJ doing civil antitrust enforcement since 2003. McDonald has experience in a variety of areas including telecommunications, aviation, electricity, and healthcare industries. With over 2,200 lawyers practicing in 30 locations worldwide, Jones Day is one of the world’s largest firms.
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Former Justice of the Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio, Judge Sarah Duncan, has joined Locke Liddell & Sapp’s Appellate Section. She will be based in Austin, but will still continue work in San Antonio and other parts of the state. One of Duncan’s responsibilities with the Appellate Section is to expand the firm’s […]
Texas lawyers have been on the move recently. Jeremy Gaston has joined Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw as a partner in Houston, while Jeffery Oldham has joined the firm as a litigation associate. Nickolas G. Spiliotis has joined Winstead’s Houston office as an associate with the labor and employment section. Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr’s Dallas office has hired three new attorneys: D. Ronald Reneker, shareholder, litigation; John L. Thompson, associate, litigation; and Brian P. DeVoss, senior associate, real estate.
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After Jenkens & Gilchrist officially closed, 93 of its attorneys were laterally hired by Hunton & Williams. Eighty-seven will be in Dallas, five in Austin, and one in Houston. The firm will open a new Austin office to accomodate the new hires. With the new additions, Hunton & Williams will become one of the largest non-Texas based firms in Dallas; the Dallas office will grow from 70 lawyers to 157. The new hires’ practice areas include financial institutions, corporate, financial services, real estate, litigation, bankruptcy, tax, and estate planning. Hunton & Williams now has almost 1,000 attorneys in 19 offices worldwide.
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Greg Coleman of Weil Gotshal & Manges has left for Houston firm Yetter & Warden. Coleman founded Weil’s Austin office in 2003 and was the head of its Supreme Court and appellate litigation group. At Yetter, Weil will start that litigation boutique’s first appellate team. After Coleman’s departure, Weil is left with twelve lawyers in Austin, including only one partner.
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Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP announced the promotion of nine new partners in the firm’s Dallas and Houston offices, effective April 1, 2007. R. Craig Baker, Steven S. Camp, Michael P. Cooley, John A. Eliason, Brett D. Lamb, Colin Martin, Robert T. Slovak, and Jeannette Vloitos practice in the Dallas office, and John T. Woodruff works out of Houston. With offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston and Mexico City, Gardere is one of the Southwest’s largest full-service law firms. The firm specializes in the areas of corporate, banking, real estate, bankruptcy, legislative and regulatory affairs, tax, labor, environmental, and intellectual property.
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