Dorsey & Whitney, which opened a Dallas office in March with lawyers that do corporate and finance work, has added litigation to the mix with two recent hires from Winstead.

Brian Vanderwoude joined Dorsey & Whitney as a partner on Sept. 25, three days after of counsel Jay Madrid also headed to the firm from Winstead, where he was once a partner and co-chair of the firm's fiduciary litigation section.

“It was opportunity to get in on the ground floor at an office … that didn't have a litigation presence in Texas and be able to build and grow that for them,” Vanderwoude said. “It was something that was pretty exciting to me.”