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July 16, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

Pack a jacket and pain relievers, and request a late hotel check-out. Those are just a few of the suggestions that Lisa Waters, a grader for Texas Wesleyan University School of Law's spring 2012 "Preparing for the Bar Exam" course, has for test-takers sitting for the three-day Texas bar exam, which begins July 24.

By Jeanne Graham

5 minute read

May 13, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Baylor University School of Law and Texas Tech University School of Law took first and second place, respectively, for the percentage of graduates passing the February Texas bar exam on their first try.

By Jeanne Graham

6 minute read

March 18, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Three Texas law schools saw major gains this year in their positions on the U.S.News & World Report annual rankings. "If you look at the numbers and you sort of see who's gone where, our guess is that employment has been a big factor — and it should be a big factor," says Richard Alderman, interim dean of the University of Houston Law Center.

By Jeanne Graham

4 minute read

August 05, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

As the associate executive director and general counsel for the Texas Association of School Boards Inc., Sedora Jefferson provides legal services to the association's management and staff and seven affiliated entities including a purchasing cooperative that does more than $500 million annually in purchases and an investment pool with $8 billion in assets.

By Jeanne Graham

5 minute read

January 21, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law is looking for a new dean. The university is not renewing its dean contract with John B. Attanasio, which expires May 31. Attanasio is serving his 15th year as dean of the Dallas law school and nearing the end of his third five-year contract.

By Jeanne Graham

5 minute read

November 14, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

Adam A. Milasincic was not confident that he had passed the July Texas bar exam. He graduated in May from the University of Virginia School of Law and says he treated studying for the exam as a full-time job. Milasincic says he was surprised when Texas Supreme Court Justice Dale Wainwright called to congratulate him on Nov. 5, with some especially good news.

By Jeanne Graham

8 minute read

July 01, 2008 | National Law Journal

Law firm marketers are enjoying large salary increases, according to Texas Lawyer's 2008 Salary and Billing Survey. Firms across Texas gave raises this year of about 4 to 4.5 percent for most legal and nonlegal staff members, and marketing directors were among those to see the highest average pay raises of 7.8 percent, from $68,636 to $73,984. "I think law firms are becoming more and more sophisticated in the use of marketing and public relations," says Munsch Hardt Chairman and CEO Glenn Callison.

By Jeanne Graham

10 minute read

November 08, 2011 | Law.com

For the third year in a row, Texas' largest firms have brought on fewer first-year associates than they did the prior year. The good news is that, in a return to the pre-recession paradigm, most firms had their new associates start work this fall instead of asking them to defer their start dates.

By Jeanne Graham

6 minute read

November 19, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

Matters such as associate pay, partnership tracks and compensation formulas will not change for Fulbright & Jaworski lawyers with the June 1, 2013, combination with Norton Rose, says Kenneth Stewart of Dallas, chairman-elect of Fulbright's executive committee.

By Jeanne Graham

5 minute read

March 26, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

When Shalla Prichard became a partner at Baker Botts this year, she joined a diverse group of new partners elected by Texas' largest firms. In total, 95 lawyers made partner or shareholder at 21 of the 25 firms with the largest Texas operations.

By Jeanne Graham

6 minute read