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April 10, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Key numbers dropped at Fulbright & Jaworski, partly due to a reduced lawyer count and activities that didn't generate revenue, says Ken Stewart, chairman of the firm's executive committee.

By Jeanne Graham

3 minute read

January 05, 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 worked 2,000 qualifying hours for each of the past two years, Jewell says. The qualifying hours include billable hours and nonbillable hours, such as pro bono matters and diversity activities, he says.

By Jeanne Graham

3 minute read

June 02, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Warning to outside counsel: Don't look for increased billing opportunities from in-house clients during the coming months.

By Jeanne Graham

1 minute read

March 01, 2013 | Law.com

Only after the wining and dining, the vetting and the negotiations are over does the process of successfully adding a lateral partner to a firm really begin. Firms can grow revenues quickly by expanding services to lateral partners' clients, but that requires laterals' effective integration into firms' operations and culture, say senior lawyers at four large Texas firms.

By Jeanne Graham

6 minute read

May 10, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

Serving as the top lawyer at a company that is undergoing investigations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice is bound to impact that lawyer's visibility within his own company, says Richard W. Rew, senior vice president and general counsel of Austin-based ArthroCare Corp.

By Jeanne Graham

9 minute read

January 02, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

Texas Lawyer invited attorneys to share their New Year's resolutions. Their emailed 2012 resolutions include goals such as getting to work earlier, going to trial at least once during the year and relying less on email when communicating with clients. These goals for the coming year, and many others, are listed below, edited for length and style.

By Jeanne Graham

7 minute read

May 28, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

With the economy improving and big-firm summer associate hiring up overall in Texas this year, some large Texas firms that did without summer associates in 2011 are back in the game. Increased business and an improving economic outlook drove Houston-based Baker Botts to increase the size of its Texas summer associate class, says hiring partner Van Beckwith.

By Jeanne Graham

6 minute read

September 02, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Geoffrey Kolander envisioned himself as a home town lawyer when he took a job with an Amarillo-based law firm after graduating in 2001 from the University of Houston Law Center. Twelve years later he is the executive vice president, GC and secretary of Citizens Inc., a publicly traded insurance holding company.

By Jeanne Graham

5 minute read

January 10, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

Charles E. Hardy is the top lawyer for a company that leaves a big footprint. He is general counsel for Austin Industries Inc., a Dallas-based group of construction companies that works on projects such as high-rise buildings, airport terminals, bridges, hospitals, highways and power plants.

By Jeanne Graham

9 minute read

November 16, 2006 | National Law Journal

The graduates of two Texas law schools hit new highs on the July 2006 bar exam. The graduates of Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in Fort Worth earned the highest bar exam pass rate in the school's history � the first class graduated in 1994 � and the graduates of St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio earned their highest pass rate in 13 years.

By Jeanne Graham

7 minute read