Balch & Bingham has added a litigation practice to its Texas offices, hiring Foley & Lardner litigation partner Audrey Momanaee to head the firm’s Texas Litigation Practice and help expand it with more lawyers.

Balch & Bingham, founded in Birmingham, Alabama, launched an office in Houston in 2020 and in Austin in 2021, but Momanaee is its first Texas trial lawyer. Managing partner Stanford Blanton said in a press release that Momanaee brings “extraordinary” litigation experience and her hiring further demonstrates the firm’s commitment to Texas.