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September 24, 2012 | Law.com

Health care is the hot practice area for fourth-quarter hiring, according to a recent Robert Half Legal survey, with general business/commercial and bankruptcy/foreclosure practice areas coming in second and third. Thirty-two percent of the lawyers interviewed say they plan to hire legal staff -- mostly lawyers -- during the last three months of 2012.

By Jeanne Graham

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August 17, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Jeanne Graham

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January 09, 2012 | Law.com

Andrews Kurth raised base salaries for its top-performing associates on Jan. 1, says Robert Jewell, the Houston-based firm's managing partner. The salary increase is for about 25 of the firm's 134 associates who have at least four years of experience and have worked 2,000 qualifying hours for each of the past two years, Jewell says.

By Jeanne Graham

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January 09, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

Andrews Kurth raised base salaries for its top-performing associates on Jan. 1, says Robert Jewell, the Houston-based firm's managing partner. The salary increase is for about 25 of the firm's 134 associates who have at least four years of experience and have worked 2,000 qualifying hours for each of the past two years, Jewell says.

By Jeanne Graham

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July 10, 2006 | National Law Journal

Thompson & Knight managing partner Peter J. Riley is tired of talking about diversity-he wants action. Riley says the Dallas-based firm is able to hire minority lawyers, but not retain them.

By Jeanne Graham/Texas Lawyer

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December 17, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

Thanks to a $2 million grant from a foundation established by an alumnus, South Texas College of Law can move ahead with makeover plans for its downtown Houston building, says Donald J. Guter, president and dean of the law school.

By Jeanne Graham

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October 18, 2012 | The American Lawyer

The 43-lawyer Dallas-based litigation boutique is adding $10,000 to the $175,000 a year in base pay its first-year associates currently earn.

By Jeanne Graham

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June 18, 2012 | Law.com

Almost one-third of lawyers interviewed for a new survey say they plan to hire full-time legal staff -- mostly attorneys -- during the next three months. Also, 84 percent of those surveyed say they're somewhat or very confident that their organization will grow in the next three months. That's up from 68 percent last quarter.

By Jeanne Graham

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June 19, 2009 | National Law Journal

Immigration firm Foster Quan, which was created by the Jan. 1 merger of Texas' two largest immigration firms, has opened its seventh office — this one in Washington, D.C. "There is a growing realization that we are likely to have major comprehensive immigration reform by the end of the year," says Charles C. Foster, co-chairman of the 56-lawyer firm. "Immigration law, perhaps more than any other area of practice, is susceptible to the vagaries of what happens in Congress, good or bad."

By Jeanne Graham

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March 04, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Sarah Tran was determined to continue teaching property law, despite a 28-day hospital stay for the treatment of leukemia. So on Wednesdays and Fridays the assistant law professor at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in Dallas conducted class from her hosptial bed for 80 first-year students via Skype.

By Jeanne Graham

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