After a short stint at Blank Rome, restructuring lawyer James Grogan has returned to Paul Hastings as a partner in Houston, adding to a string of bankruptcy and restructuring moves among large law firms in Texas, where low energy prices are compounding the nation’s COVID-19-related economic downturn.

Grogan, who rejoined Paul Hastings on Wednesday in the finance and restructuring practice, was of counsel at Paul Hastings from 2009 through September 2018 in Houston and New York, until he joined Blank Rome as a partner in Houston to build a restructuring practice there.