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September 23, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Women make up 15.9 percent of the 1,701 equity partners at the firms that participated in Texas Lawyer's 2013 Women & Minorities survey. At four firms, the percentage of women equity partners in Texas exceeds 20 percent. Equity female partners or shareholders at each of the four firms talk about their successful business development techniques.

By Jeanne Graham

9 minute read

July 29, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Alternative, or non-hourly billing, is used by 89 percent or 82 of the 92 firms that responded to Texas Lawyer's 2013 Salary and Billing Survey. While the firms are balancing the risk and reward of alternative billing, 80 percent are also offering discount fees or rates to their clients.

By Jeanne Graham

6 minute read

May 20, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Texas' largest firms are bringing in about the same number of summer associates as they did last year, but a larger proportion of those summer associates are 1Ls.

By Jeanne Graham

3 minute read

March 25, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

For Andrews Kurth corporate and securities partner Stephanie Beauvais, an understanding manager's accommodation showed her she could balance her career and her family life. Beauvais is one of 31 new female partners at Texas' largest firms.

By Jeanne Graham

5 minute read

February 25, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Once the wining and dining, the vetting and the negotiations are over, the process of successfully adding a lateral partner to a firm really begins. "It takes two years for a firm to integrate a lateral partner," says Tim Powers, lateral hiring partner and member of the board of directors for 521-lawyer Haynes and Boone.

By Jeanne Graham

6 minute read

February 21, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

At the Texas offices of 19 of the 26 largest firms in the state, lateral hiring rose 10.3 percent in 2010 compared to lateral hires made by the same firms in 2009. Kevin Lashus (pictured) is a Texas lawyer who seized an opportunity in 2010 to move to a new firm where he believes his practice will grow because of cross-selling.

By Jeanne Graham

38 minute read

October 18, 2012 | Law.com

By Jeanne Graham

1 minute read

May 27, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

The summer associate class at Baker Botts in Texas is smaller this year than it was in 2009, and summer associate Rocio Mendoza says that's OK with her. Mendoza is coming back for a second summer at the Houston-based firm.

By Jeanne Graham

4 minute read

March 11, 2013 | Law.com

Determined to continue teaching despite a 28-day hospital stay for leukemia treatment, assistant law professor Sarah Tran put a suit jacket over her hospital clothes and conducted class via Skype twice a week -- a lesson for her students in both the law and professionalism. Since back in the classroom, Tran expects to teach property law again in the fall.

By Jeanne Graham

3 minute read

May 13, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Jillian Marullo earned the top score on the Texas February bar exam and is a December 2012 graduate of South Texas College of Law.

By Jeanne Graham

3 minute read