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• Akin Gump hires energy and global transactions expert from Vinson & Elkins

  Mar 21 2012 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has boosted its energy and global transactions team in Houston with the hire of partner Stephen Davis from Vinson & Elkins. Davis is... more

• DLA Piper launches in Mexico

  Feb 15 2012 DLA Piper has launched a new office in Mexico City. The new base will be staffed with a team of 16 lawyers from the Texas law firm Thompson & Knight, and will focus on... more

• Skadden tops list of strongest law firm brands

  Jan 31 2012 Brand research company Acritas has compiled a list of the strongest brands in the US and global legal services market. Their study, which surveyed 902 clients, of... more

• Vinson & Elkins and Wachtell Lipton lead $1 billion hostile takeover of Tulsa-based SemGroup

  Oct 28 2011 Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline is intent on the acquisition of rival Tulsa-based company SemGroup. but when its $1 billion offer was rejected by the board... more

• Baker Donelson set to launch office in Texas

  Oct 25 2011 Tennessee-based law firm Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz is set to launch a new office in Texas after the acquisition of Houston firm Spain Chambers.... 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

• Texas-based Vinson & Elkins to pay spring bonuses

  Apr 21 2011 Texas based firm Vinson & Elkins, has announced that it will pay spring bonuses. The announced bonuses are below the scale set by Cravath Swaine & Moore: • Class of... more

• Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett set to launch in Houston after Vinson & Elkins Hire

  Apr 12 2011 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is set to launch a new office in Houston after the hire of Vinson & Elkins capital markets partner Robert Rabalais. "Opening in Houston... more

• Texas firm Clark, Thomas & Winters closes after mass defections

  Apr 08 2011 Texas firm Clark, Thomas & Winters has closed its doors after the departure of more than 50 lawyers in the past two months. Clark, Thomas & Winters was founded in... more

• Clarke Thomas & Winters loses half its headcount

  Mar 16 2011 About half the lawyers from Texas firm Clark, Thomas & Winters have announced that they are leaving to start a new law firm law firm under the name Duggins Wren Mann &... more

• US firm Clark Thomas & Winters to undertake major restructuring

  Feb 28 2011 Texas law firm Clark Thomas & Winters has announced major restructuring to take place in the coming weeks, adding to speculation that the firm’s future hangs in the... more

• Transition of power in law firms: smooth succession

  Feb 18 2011 This is an interesting article about the transition of power and responsibility as law firms move from one managing partner to the next. It looks at the process... more

• Four firms lead defence of oil-spill litigation

  Jun 16 2010 The defence against the avalanche of civil litigation relating to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be led by four firms. BP has called upon Akerman,... more

• Latham & Watkins moves into Texas with Houston launch

  Jan 12 2010 After massive layoffs in 2009, Latham and Watkins LLP is reportedly expanding its operation with a new office in Houston, Texas. Bloomberg reports that Michael... more

• IP firm boutique Fish & Richardson to close Austin office

  Sep 01 2009 Boston-based intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson will shut its Austin, Texas, office and cut corporate transactional lawyers firmwide. Fish & Richardson... more

• More layoffs at Baker Botts, but how many?

  Aug 28 2009 US law firm Baker Botts has laid off more lawyers, but isn’t disclosing how many are affected by the job cuts. The layoffs are the result of market conditions and... more

• Greenberg Traurig loses bankruptcy team in Phoenix

  Aug 21 2009 Five bankruptcy attorneys at Greenberg Traurig's Phoenix office are jumping to 100-lawyer Gallagher & Kennedy. more

• Weil Gotshal to close Austin office

  Jul 03 2009 Weil Gotshal law firm will be closing its Austin office on December 1, 2009. Weil will continue to serve its clients in Central Texas through its remaining Texas... more

• Microsoft Ordered to Pay $200 Million in Patent Dispute

  May 21 2009 Recently, the Eastern District of Texas' reputation as a plaintiff-friendly jurisdiction has taken a few hits. Well, here's some news that will help restore its... more

• Coalition Seeks Disbarment of Bush Lawyers Over Interrogation of Terrorism Suspects

  May 19 2009 A collection of organizations, most of them left-leaning, filed complaints Monday with five State Bar associations, accusing former Attorneys General John Ashcroft,... more

• $72m malpractice verdict againt against Akin Gump

  May 10 2009 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld was hit with a $72.6 million judgment for botching a patent application filed by a Texas-based company and an inventor. A San Antonio... 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

• King & Spalding Represents Texas Offshore Crude Oil Port Joint Venture

  Aug 20 2008 International law firm King & Spalding advised Enterprise Products Partners L.P., TEPPCO Partners, L.P., and Oiltanking Holding Americas, Inc., on their joint venture... more

• Greenberg Traurig Announces Opening of Third Texas Office in Austin

  Aug 04 2008 The international law firm Greenberg Traurig has announced the opening of a new office in Austin, Texas, its 27th in the United States. With the launch of the... 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

• Howrey Loses $250 Million IP Verdict in East Texas

  Jun 01 2008 A federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas gave a big win to hometown lawyer Sam Baxter of Dallas-based McKool Smith, awarding his client, Medtronic, $250 million... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf partner Stenglein joins King & Spalding to launch Austin Office

  May 07 2008 The international law firm of King & Spalding LLP is spreading to Austin by taking the leader of the soon-to-be closed office of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, Mike Stenglein.... more

• Supreme Court Sides With Texas in Dispute With Bush

  Mar 26 2008 In a landmark decision at the intersection of state, federal and international law, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that neither the World Court nor President... more