After taking off his robe for the last time on Sept. 30, now-former U.S. Magistrate Judge Chad Everingham of Marshall became a partner in Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld on Oct. 3 and opened the firm’s new Longview office. Akin Gump is the largest firm to set up a satellite office in the Eastern District of Texas, which is well-known for its booming patent docket.

On Sept. 28, Eastern District judges selected Roy S. Payne, a partner in Shreveport, La.’s Gregorio, Gregory & Payne, to fill the bench Everingham vacated.

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