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December 26, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

The transactions practice area picked up at Dallas' Glast, Phillips & Murray in 2011, but managing partner Troy Phillips is not willing to bet that the improved business climate is a long-term trend. Seventy-four percent of respondents to a Texas Lawyer survey of managing partners expect increased revenue this year.

By Jeanne Graham

5 minute read

January 07, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Texas Lawyer invited attorneys to share their New Year's resolutions

By Jeanne Graham

5 minute read

June 29, 2007 | National Law Journal

Firms are reporting healthy increases in 2007 salaries and billing rates, according to Texas Lawyer's annual Salary & Billing Survey. Firms of all sizes awarded across-the-board salary increases to lawyers, nonlawyer administrators and nonlawyer support staff. Firms also have slightly higher expectations than last year when it comes to billable hours. But due to increasing billing rates, Fossil GC Randy Hyne says smaller boutique firms may get projects his company used to give to larger firms.

By Jeanne Graham

8 minute read

November 07, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

Despite an uncertain economy that led to some attorney layoffs, the new top lawyer at McJunkin Red Man Corp. (MRC) in Houston is doubling the size of his in-house legal department. Daniel J. Churay, who has been executive vice president and general counsel of the company since August.

By Jeanne Graham

6 minute read

October 31, 2011 | Law.com

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz has entered the Texas market by merging with Houston's Spain Chambers. "Ever since we entered Louisiana in 2004, it has been very apparent that there is an economic integration between Louisiana and Houston," says Ben C. Adams, chairman and chief executive officer of Baker, Donelson.

By jeanne Graham

3 minute read

October 29, 2007 | National Law Journal

About 400 lawyers have just started their careers at Texas' largest firms. The law firms are working to attract and retain new associates, including a decision by some not to raise salaries to $160,000, which some associates believe correlates with less work pressure. First-year Christopher Jaquez says that Vinson & Elkins has smoothed the transition from law school to full-time lawyer by supplying him with a partner mentor and an associate mentor. "It's important to me that I produce good work," he says.

By Jeanne Graham

8 minute read

October 31, 2005 | National Law Journal

The numbers are in, and they look good. Big Texas law firms are employing a larger class of new associates this fall-a hefty 9.4% more-than in the fall of 2004.

By Jeanne Graham Texas Lawyer

6 minute read

November 12, 2008 | National Law Journal

The 2008 first-year class for 23 of Texas' largest law firms is 5.2 percent larger than in 2007, according to a Texas Lawyer survey. The class is larger than last year's because Texas firms have been growing over the past few years, particularly in the financial markets practice areas, says consultant William C. Cobb. And, he notes, the offers were made before the financial crisis.

By Jeanne Graham

8 minute read

December 05, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

Skills-focused winter intersession courses for second- and third-year students at St. Mary's University School of Law filled so rapidly during online registration in October that the school expanded the class sizes and increased the number of times the school would offer the courses during the break. Victoria Mather is associate dean for academic and student affairs and professor of law at St. Mary's.

By Jeanne Graham

4 minute read

December 06, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

As a whole, summer associates in a recent poll gave Texas firms high scores for associate interaction and lower scores for training and guidance. Most of the summer associates gave their firms average scores for interaction with partners and the amount of real work assigned.

By Jeanne Graham

12 minute read