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  • Paxton Promotes Legal Strategy Aide After Impeachment Help

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday announced the promotion of Austin Kinghorn to deputy attorney general for legal strategy.

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    Clifford Chance Adds Latham Capital Markets Atty In Houston

    Clifford Chance LLP is expanding its capital markets team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Latham & Watkins LLP energy and infrastructure expert as a partner in its Houston office.

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    Most Young Lawyers Say Debt Alters Their Career Plans

    A recent student debt study by the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division has found that student debt affects young attorneys in many ways — including changing their career plans.

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    DLA Piper's Boston Leader To Co-Lead US Real Estate Team

    A longtime DLA Piper attorney focused on real estate investment and development is stepping up to co-lead the firm's U.S. real estate practice, according to an announcement Monday.

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    Michelman & Robinson Houston Leader Joins Brown Rudnick

    Brown Rudnick LLP continued to grow its new Houston office this week with the addition of an oil and gas litigator who moved her practice from Michelman & Robinson LLP after nearly three years.

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    Bradley Arant Adds Katten Partner In Dallas

    Bradley Arant has hired a six-and-a-half-year veteran of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP who is joining the firm's corporate and securities practice in Dallas as a partner.

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    Troutman Pepper, Locke Lord Deal Signals Combos To Come

    The upcoming merger of Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP and Locke Lord LLP, set for January 2025 and expected to create a firm with over 1,600 attorneys across 33 offices, is indicative of a broader, accelerating trend of consolidation in the legal industry, according to consultants and experts.

  • Appeals Court Says Nursing Home Seller Keeps Atty Fees

    An entity that sold a nursing home is entitled to keep attorney fees because the underlying contract spelled out that it was entitled to them, a Texas appeals court found, even though the eventual buyer was not a party to the contract granting attorney fees.

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    Steptoe Adds Co-Leader To Restructuring & Insolvency Group

    Steptoe LLP has expanded its transactions and tax practice by hiring a New York-based partner as a co-leader of the firm's insolvency and restructuring team.

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    Judge Barnard Says It's 'About Time' For Texas Biz Court

    Law360 recently talked with Judge Marialyn Barnard, who transitioned this month from the 73rd District Court to Texas Business Court, about the newly created court.

  • Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP and Selendy Gay PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Delaware vice chancellor ruled that Johnson & Johnson owes over $1 billion to a medical robotics developer and entrepreneur over a post-acquisition dispute.

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    Legal Job Market Continued Downward Trend In August

    The legal industry lost 2,300 jobs in August, the fourth month in a row of declines, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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    The Road Map For Restoring Public Trust In State Courts

    At a time when misconduct accusations continue to hover over the U.S. Supreme Court, state court leaders have put forth a strategy to boost trust in local judicial officials that largely calls for them to take on more public-facing roles.

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    McGlinchey Stafford Adds Ex-United Auto Credit GC In Texas

    McGlinchey Stafford PLLC announced that it has strengthened its financial institutions compliance practice group with a Dallas-based attorney who came aboard after more than seven years as general counsel and chief compliance officer for United Auto Credit Corp.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry kicked off September with another action-packed week as law firms shifted offices and made new hires. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    Baker Botts Gains Tax Pro In Dallas From Baker McKenzie

    Baker Botts LLP has bolstered its tax department with a partner in Dallas who came aboard after more than a decade with Baker McKenzie.

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    A&O Shearman To Cut Partner Numbers By 10%

    A&O Shearman said Friday that it is cutting its global partnership by approximately 10% as the newly merged firm plows ahead with cost-cutting measures and seeks benefits from its transatlantic tie-up.

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    Texas Could Be Next Delaware, Attys Say As Biz Court Opens

    Law firms have been preparing for the upcoming Texas Business Court since the state announced that it wanted to compete with the Delaware Court of Chancery, but many have adopted a wait-and-see approach to the Lone Star State's newest venue, which opened for cases this week.

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    Troutman Pepper, Locke Lord Announce Megamerger

    Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP and Locke Lord LLP will merge in January 2025 to create a combined firm with more than 1,600 attorneys across 33 offices in the United States and two in Europe, the law firms announced Thursday.

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    Judge Sharp No Stranger To Complex Cases Biz Court To See

    Business Court Judge Stacy Sharp says that most of the cases she's litigated across her career would have been a perfect fit for the state's newest venue.

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    Culhane Meadows Rebrands With An Eye Toward Expansion

    Culhane Meadows Haughian & Walsh PLLC unveiled a new name and branding this week, beginning its second decade as CM Law PLLC with an eye toward expansion.

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    Buchanan Ingersoll COO Jumps To Faegre Drinker

    Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has hired a chief operating officer who previously held that role at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, the firm said Thursday.

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    Haynes Boone Raises Volume On Atty Wellness With Podcast

    From caffeine and parenting to ergonomics and sleep, Haynes and Boone LLP has taken on a wide array of topics in its "Wellness in Law" podcast series. Abby Read, the firm's first wellness manager, joined Law360 Pulse to discuss the initiative.

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    Travel Tech Biz Sabre Taps Another Chief Legal Officer

    Travel tech company Sabre Corp. will soon welcome its third chief legal officer within the past few years due to the termination of the attorney who started in the post last year.

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    Texas Real Estate Group Lands Veteran In-House Atty As GC

    Austin, Texas-based real estate investment and development platform The Amherst Group has hired a new general counsel with 20 years of experience in real estate, including more than a decade of in-house work under his belt.

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