Fresh off multiple mergers and office openings last year that put it in San Diego and filled out its footprint in Florida, Dinsmore & Shohl has announced it’s entering Texas with an eight-lawyer group from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith.

The Cincinnati-based firm, No. 114 in last year’s Am Law rankings, is opening with a litigation team in Houston, pointing to health care and technology as well as the state’s oil, gas and energy sectors as drivers of its decision.