Bolstered with nearly 100 lateral hires when Dallas firm Jenkens & Gilchrist closed on March 31, 2007, Hunton & Williams is a newcomer to Texas Lawyer’s ranking of the five out-of-state firms with the highest-grossing operations in Texas.
Hunton & Williams of Richmond, Va., joins returning firms Jones Day of Cleveland, Weil, Gotshal & Manges of New York, King & Spalding of Atlanta, and Chicago firm Mayer Brown on the list. Hunton & Williams, which has offices in Dallas, Houston and Austin, bumped Washington, D.C.-based Howrey, which has an office in Houston, from the list.
