Kane Russell Coleman Logan's new offices at Sage Plaza at 5151 San Felipe is located in the heart of Houston's Uptown district. Courtesy photo

Kane Russell Coleman Logan's new Houston office features modern amenities for lawyers and staff and easy access for clients, and supports the firm's strategic goal of expanding its transactional team in Houston. "Our focus in the past in Houston [has been] mostly litigation-focused, and our goal over the next three-to-five years is to grow in the commercial and transactional practices, so this positions us to attract exceptional new talent and to have some more room to grow," said Roland Hamilton, the director-in-charge of the Houston office. The firm is looking to hire M&A, real estate, banking and commercial transactions lawyers, said Hamilton, who became director-in-charge in January. The new space is a full floor in Sage Plaza, which is located on San Felipe in the Uptown area of Houston. Hamilton said the office provides for hoteling, has several conference rooms that will accommodate Zoom hearings and conferences, a "war room" for large commercial transactions or for trial preparation, and a modern break room called Cafe KRCL. "One of the big features that the younger attorneys like is a cold brew coffee machine," he said. Additionally, Hamilton said, the building has an onsite conference center, a fitness center an auditorium that accommodates 85 people, a tenant lounge and an outside fire pit. Hamilton said the move, completed a month ago, came about after the firm's lease in an office building adjacent to the Galleria shopping mall was up, and the firm looked for a building that would accommodate growth plus provide easier access for clients. Traffic around the Galleria is "horrible," he said. Kane Russell has 30 lawyers in the Houston office, but three of them live outside the city and had been hoteling, Hamilton said. The firm has options to take more space in the building as it builds its Houston team. The firm, which also has an office in Dallas, has been in the Houston market for nearly 20 years, and is committed to building a bench of lawyers on the transactional side to support client needs, in addition to the litigation team already in place, Hamilton said. In Houston, the firm already has some transactional lawyers including "M&A guru and tax guru" director Arthur Nathan, and real estate, transactional and M&A director Michael Navarro, the office leader said.