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• US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges promotes 11 to partnership

  Dec 28 2011 US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges has elevated eleven lawyers to the partnership in its annual promotions round. The promotions take place across the New York,... more

• K&L Gates add partners in Dallas and Spokane

  Nov 21 2011 K&L Gates has boosted its Dallas and Spokane offices with a series of hires. In Dallas, the firm’s outsourcing and commercial transactions practice are joined by... more

• Survey shows salary against cost of living in US cities

  Oct 29 2011 A new survey by the National Association for Law Placement has indexed median private practice salaries against the cost of living in 70 US cities to determine where... more

• McKool Smith to merge with LA boutique Hennigan Dorman

  Sep 09 2011 Dallas based IP and commercial litigation firm McKool Smith has aquiredd 33-lawyer Los Angeles litigation and bankruptcy boutique Hennigan Dorman. The firms will... more

• High merger activity between law firms is set to continue

  Sep 07 2011 Interesting article here in the Wall Street Journal, which anticipates more merger activity for law firms in the near future. According to reports, firms are now... more

• Merit list: law firms that offered jobs to 100% of summer associates

  Aug 17 2011 Above The Law has posted a list of firms that have offered jobs to 100 per cent of summer associates, readying themselves to start naming and shaming those firms that... more

• US firm shifts paralegal work from India back to the US

  Jul 13 2011 One of the US firms that pioneered the use of legal process outsourcing to India has taken steps to divert some of the work back to the US. In 1999 a Minneapolis-based... more

• Indian offshore firm Pangea3 opens US service delivery office

  Jun 07 2011 Mumbai-headquartered Pangea3 – owned by Thompson Reuters - has opened its first US-based service delivery office in Dallas, Texas. The office will allow the company to... more

• Fifth Annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner - Honoring the Judiciary and Elected Officials of Dallas County

  Apr 18 2011 Our shareholder attorney Sean Modjarrad and Modjarrad & Abusaad Law Firm are proud to serve as Underwriting Sponsors of the Fifth Annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner,... more

• Gibson Dunn adds five partners in Dallas

  Jan 20 2011 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has boosted its Dallas office with the hire of five new partners. M&A partner Jeffrey Chapman, litigation partners William Dawson,... more

• Jones Day lays off support staff in LA and Dallas

  Jun 17 2010 Jones Day has laid off an unspecified number of support staffers in its Los Angeles and Dallas offices. About two thirds of those laid off are secretarial workers, and... more

• Paul Hastings loses four partners to Haynes and Boone

  Jan 29 2010 Four real estate partners are leaving Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker to join the New York office of Haynes and Boone. The Dallas-based firm confirmed it had... more

• Lanier Law Firm expands to Europe

  Oct 13 2009 The Lanier Law Firm has created an international practice and will open an office in London in the first quarter of 2010 to expand the new practice. The firm already... more

• Stanford investors file $7bn class action against Proskauer Rose

  Aug 31 2009 Investor client of Stanford Financial Group have filed a class action against US law firm Proskauer Rose and its partner Thomas Sjoblom in the U.S. District Court for... more

• Stanley Mandel and Wolf Haldenstein investigate leveraged ETFs

  Aug 21 2009 Two US law firms — Stanley Mandel & Iola LLP of Dallas and Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP of New York — are investigating potential claims on behalf of... more

• Greenberg snares 10 lawyers from Akin Gump

  Feb 03 2009 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost four partner and six associates to Greenberg Traurig in Texas. The team includes Akin's former head of securities litigation... more

• Hunton & Williams grabs Akin Group as Part of Expansion in California, Texas

  Jul 01 2008 Hunton & Williams is opening a San Francisco office with a trio of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld labor attorneys -- part of an eight-lawyer group that's also... more

• Thompson & Knight Continues to Expand Tax Practice

  Jun 10 2008 The global law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP has announced the addition of Associates John Anderson, William P. Lepak, and Daniel L. Meehan III for its tax practice.... more

• Hughes & Luce joins up with K&L Gates

  Dec 18 2007 Dallas law firm Hughes & Luce is merging with New York firm K&L Gates. Partners at the two law firms voted for the combination, which will be effective Jan. 1. A... more

• Dallas law firm Baron & Budd PC opens Austin office

  Dec 04 2007 Law firm Baron & Budd PC will open an office in Austin. The Austin office will be headed by Patrick O'Connell, former Chief of the Texas Attorney General's Civil... more

• Jenner & Block to Close Dallas office

  Dec 04 2007 Jenner & Block, which has its largest office in Chicago, will close its small four-lawyer office in Dallas early next year after little growth of the office since it... more

• Dallas Firm Strasburger & Price Cuts Billables for First-Years

  Oct 09 2007 Dallas-based Strasburger & Price is cutting billable requirements for first-year lawyers to allow more time for associate training. Strasburger & Price, with 183... more