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In our cover feature this month, we look at the top 25 firms in Texas and their 2018 partnership numbers in our annual New Partners Survey.
In our cover feature this month, we look at the top 25 firms in Texas and their 2018 partnership numbers in our annual New Partners Survey.
For 2018, 18 of the 25 firms with the most lawyers in Texas announced 85 lawyers to partner, which is a 25 percent increase over the number of new partners at those firms in 2017.
Dallas underwent a judicial revolution of sorts 12 years ago when its voters decided to elect Democratic candidates to every one of its district and…
Angela Morris
Texas legal educators are striving to recruit racially and ethnically diverse law students, but there’s one law school that’s excelling hand-over-fist compared to the others.
Emily Pitlick Mallen and Katy Lukaszewski
The domestic energy revolution, largely fueled by new sources of natural gas, would not be possible without the interstate pipeline grid that transports…
Michael P. Maslanka
In teaching professional responsibility, I stress that your word is inviolate, that we are officers of the court and that we put the needs of others (our clients) ahead of our needs. Virtues, each and every one. Here’s yet another: learning how to take a punch. Knowing how to do so is integral to being an effective lawyer, and, incidentally, to living a fulfilled life, day to day.
Michael Capone, senior vice president and general counsel at CCS Medical, talks with Texas Lawyer about everything from whom he uses for outside counsel to what he does when he's not in the office.
John G. Browning
Let’s face it: The law can be a pretty dry subject. So when something out of the norm occurs, disrupting our boring little universe, we tend to stand up and take notice. And there have been some fairly odd occurrences lately in the justice system.
David McCullough and Garrett A. Gibson
In recent months, the steady drumbeat of climate change litigation has grown increasingly louder as municipalities in California and New York have filed…
Aaron Dobbs
Estate planning requires a client to make numerous decisions, and some of those decisions are given a lot of attention — such as, “Who should…
Stephanie Townsend Allala
The fact is that most people won’t lose their homes if they receive competent legal advice.
Elizabeth P. Ardanowski
The last few years saw substantial changes and updates in the probate and estates realm, not the least of which was replacement of the prior Texas Probate Code with the Texas Estates Code.
