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August 22, 2008 | National Law Journal

The grades are in. Students gave their respective Texas law schools high marks for faculty accessibility and creating a collegial atmosphere but lower marks for the helpfulness of the schools' placement offices, according to Texas Lawyer's 2008 Dear Dean Survey. More than 97 percent of Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law's graduates are employed within nine months of graduation, says Dean John Attanasio, which may explain why it ranked highest among Texas' nine law schools.

By Jeanne Graham

29 minute read

May 13, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Julie Grantham has done it all: practiced law in private firms, worked as a nonlawyer executive for a tech company, raised funds for a political group and generated sales for a forensic-investigation company. Now, with her roots planted firmly back in Texas, she is the first general counsel of Boerne-based COI Enterprises.

By Jeanne Graham

10 minute read

June 16, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Texas Lawyer looked at the results for selected clients at some of the busiest firm lobby shops for the 2003 session, which ended on June 2.

By Jeanne Graham and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

April 01, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

One year ago Dena DeNooyer Stroh traded a partnership in a boutique law firm for a job as the top lawyer at an energy company. "I came to a crossroads of 'do I stay at the pinnacle of litigation, a woman partner at a trial boutique or do I try this, a female general counsel of an oil and gas company?'" DeNooyer Stroh says.

By Jeanne Graham

9 minute read

March 04, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Scott Kerr of Austin has been through what many in-house lawyers would consider a nightmare: working for a company that's being sold. And he's done it twice. He's deputy general counsel of Charleston, S.C.-based Blackbaud Inc.

By Jeanne Graham

10 minute read

September 16, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Jeanne Graham and Miriam Rozen

16 minute read

June 09, 2008 | National Law Journal

Russell Falconer, a law student spending six weeks in the Dallas office of Vinson & Elkins, has a mission: Get a job offer for the fall of 2009. Falconer grew up in Dallas and hopes to launch his legal career in his hometown after he graduates from the University of Texas School of Law next May. Falconer has one of the 948 summer associate positions available at 24 of Texas' 25 largest firms. That number of positions is down 8.9 percent from the 1,040 slots available to students during the summer of 2007.

By Jeanne Graham

21 minute read

May 24, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

Nineteen of the 22 large Texas firms participating in a Texas Lawyer survey have smaller summer associate classes in Texas for 2010 than the same firms had here in 2009. Rocio Mendoza (pictured) is back for a second summer at Baker Botts in Houston.

By Jeanne Graham

10 minute read

March 23, 2010 | Law.com

Large Texas firms hired 43.1 percent fewer lateral attorneys in 2009 than they did during 2008, according to Texas Lawyer's annual Lateral Moves Survey. The most lateral hiring occurred in litigation, bankruptcy and reorganization, intellectual property and energy.

By Jeanne Graham

9 minute read

June 01, 2004 | Law.com

It's a good time to be a summer associate in Texas -- and there are more of them than there were in any of the past three years, according to Texas Lawyer's 2004 Summer Associates Survey. Weekly salaries have held steady, acceptance rates are up, and flexibility in scheduling at some firms offers summers the chance to make the most of the season's opportunities.

By Jeanne Graham

8 minute read