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September 24, 2012 |

Offer Rates Rise for Next Fall's First-Year BigTex Associates

As autumn begins, many large Texas firms already have made permanent job offers for the fall of 2013 to students who worked at the firms during the summer.
9 minute read
May 09, 2006 |

Outsourced Around the World in a Billable Hour

Associates may be pleased by the recent spike in first-year salaries, but are associates worth the cost? Even as law firms call the salary increases a competitive necessity, concerns are developing over the growing use of outsourcing and offshoring. Some estimates predict 79,000 jobs -- more than half of them attorney positions -- could be lost to offshore providers of legal services by 2015. Will the rise in associate compensation -- and, ultimately, billing rates -- price firms out of their own market?
5 minute read
April 25, 2011 |

Headcount Numbers Flat at Largest Firms in Texas

In 2010, one Texas firm grew due to an oil rig explosion and another shrank due to the timing of birthdays. Godwin Ronquillo increased its lawyer count by almost 50 percent during the last eight months of 2010, primarily to meet the needs of one client, says Donald E. Godwin, chairman and chief executive officer of the Dallas-based firm. The firm represents Halliburton Energy Services Inc. of Houston in litigation related to the April 2010 Gulf of Mexico explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig operated by BP PLC of London.
6 minute read
February 22, 2010 |

MOVERS

Scott Fletcher joins Jones Day's securities litigation and U.S. Securities Exchange Commission enforcement practice as partner in the Houston office. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
3 minute read
April 30, 2012 |

Gross Revenue at BigTex Firms Inches Up in '11

The strength of the Texas economy, and the rock-solid energy business specifically, resulted in a strong year for the finances of large Texas firms. Jackson Walker managing partner C. Wade Cooper helped his firm's gross revenue jump 8.5 percent in 2011.
15 minute read
September 20, 2006 |

A 'Nonprosecution Agreement' by Any Other Name...

On Aug. 28, Prudential Financial Inc. signed what it thought was a nonprosecution agreement with Michael Sullivan, the U.S. Attorney in Boston. But after the signing, deputy attorney general Paul McNulty called a press conference to trumpet the "deferred prosecution agreement." McNulty's comment has led some to question the government's credibility. The question of what to call the pact isn't just semantics -- a deferred prosecution deal carries more of a stigma than a nonprosecution agreement.
3 minute read
July 21, 2003 |

Home Sweet Home

A growing number of Texas lawyers who jumped at opportunities in Washington have returned to Texas, some of them taking a pay cut in the process.
14 minute read
September 20, 2010 |

Bar Groups Add Ammunition in Dispute With City

3 minute read
July 29, 2010 |

News In Brief

4 minute read
March 14, 2005 |

Court Curtails Shareholder Prospectus Suits

Suing public companies for shareholder losses arising from allegedly false registration statements accompanying public stock offerings will be more difficult under a recent ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
4 minute read

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