By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | January 19, 2024
Am Law 200 Phelps Dunbar's combination with 28-lawyer Farris Bobango is the latest tie-up between firms as mergers are playing out as a trend for 2024.
By Charles Toutant | January 18, 2024
"Are my Democratic colleagues okay with this? Or do they simply believe the press will not report anything, no matter how extreme these nominees are?" Texas Sen. Ted Cruz asked.
By Justin Henry | January 18, 2024
"One troubling fact was that it was never explained internally, even to partners, why our global C-suite all the sudden departed in a short period of time," Stephen Aschettino said of his former firm. "The reasons for that have never been articulated."
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | January 17, 2024
Five energy litigators from Eversheds Sutherland in Houston jumped to Baker McKenzie's Houston office, attracted in part by the firm's extensive global network and its Texas strategy.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | January 16, 2024
A total of 24 lawyers from Houston trial boutique Smyser, Kaplan & Veselka have moved to Steptoe to open a Houston office for the Am Law 200 firm, a deal that provides benefits to clients of both firms.
By Patrick Smith | January 16, 2024
The lateral group, with a focus on FDA and regulatory compliance, will provide a boost to McDermott's health-care practice, particularly with M&A activity projected to pick up in 2024, the firm said.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | January 12, 2024
A Texas man who sued former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones, alleging violation of his constitutional rights, has added Jackson Walker, Kirkland & Ellis and former Jackson Walker partner Elizabeth Freeman in a suit connected to an undisclosed romantic relationship between Jones and Freeman.
By Allison Dunn | January 12, 2024
"Counsel's constructive absence during either a significant portion of trial or an important aspect of trial so offends the constitutional protections surrounding the right to assistance of counsel that it renders the entire adversary process 'presumptively unreliable' and creates an uncurable error," Chief Justice Kimberly S. Budd wrote.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | January 12, 2024
Vinson & Elkins hired a Shearman & Sterling tax and energy transition partner in Los Angeles, and Willkie Farr & Gallagher added a Mayer Brown energy finance and transactions partner in Houston.
By Patrick Smith | January 12, 2024
A host of large law firms advised on one of the largest announced M&A deals so far in 2024.
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