Culhane Meadows, a nontraditional firm, has opened an office in Houston with three partners and also added five partners in Dallas and one in Austin, with eight of the nine laterals coming from Phillips & Reiter.

In Houston, Culhane Meadows added Alicia Goodrow, Michelle Nickel and Cliff Simpson. In Dallas, laterals Jonathan Hustis, Brent Somers, Gordon “Chuck” Williams Jr. and James Young joined Culhane Meadows. Kristen Geyer joined in Austin.

Also, Ajay Mago, formerly of Duane Morris, joined the firm in Dallas, but will also practice out of the Culhane Meadows office in Chicago.