Minority-owned firm White & Wiggins of Dallas has opened an office in New York and has made four lateral hires, including partner Kennedy Barnes, who has returned to the firm where he started his career. The firm is now known as White Wiggins & Barnes.

In addition to Barnes, White Wiggins added partners Ward White IV and Nnamdi Anozie in Dallas, and of counsel Lance Croffoot-Suede in New York. With the lateral hires, the 10-lawyer firm beefs up its commercial litigation strength and adds a global litigation, compliance and regulatory practice focusing on the African continent, and an entertainment practice.