| Lateral Hiring at Large Firms in Texas | ||||||||||||
| Firm name | Texas Attorneys as of Jan. 1, 2012 | Texas Attorneys as of Jan. 1, 2011 | Texas Partners as of Jan. 1, 2012 | Texas Partners as of Jan. 1, 2011 | Texas Lateral Attorney Hires 2012 | Texas Lateral Attorney Hires 2011 | Texas Lateral Partner Hires 2012 | Texas Lateral Partner Hires 2011 | Texas Departing Attorneys 2012 (%) | Texas Departing Attorneys 2011 | Texas Departing Partners 2012 (%) | Texas Departing Partners 2011 |
| Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld | 195 | 208 | 74 | 70 | 19 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 26 (13.3) | 36 | 7 (9.5) | 2 |
| Andrews Kurth | 345 | 343 | 177 | 174 | 21 | 23 | 3 | 5 | 28 (8.1) | 27 | 5 (2.8) | 4 |
| Baker Botts | 429 | 441 | 165 | 166 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 74 (17.2) | 59 | 8 (4.8) | 6 |
| Bracewell & Giuliani | 301 | 326 | 139 | 129 | 53 | 23 | 15 | 7 | 48 (15.9) | 59 | 9 (6.5) | 12 |
| Cox Smith Matthews | 135 | 138 | 75 | 78 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 25 (18.5) | 12 | 8 (10.7) | 5 |
| Gardere Wynne Sewell | 231 | 256 | 148 | 151 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 29 (12.6) | 32 | 11 (7.4) | 9 |
| Greenberg Traurig* | 108 | 105 | 46 | 47 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 12 | 19 (17.6) | 15 | 7 (15.2) | 3 |
| Haynes and Boone | 413 | 433 | 176 | 178 | 22 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 64 (15.5) | 51 | 16 (9.1) | 11 |
| Hunton & Williams* | 108 | 115 | 54 | 54 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 (11.1) | 14 | 6 (11.1) | 2 |
| Kelly Hart & Hallman | 132 | 125 | 54 | 51 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 4 (3.0) | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| Locke Lord | 380 | 380 | 189 | 190 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 50 (13.2) | 29 | 18 (9.5) | 5 |
| Looper Reed & McGraw | 120 | 105 | 64 | 66 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 9 (7.5) | 4 | 4 (6.3) | 2 |
| Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr | 111 | 107 | 71 | 70 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 8 (7.2) | 12 | 3 (4.2) | 6 |
| Strasburger & Price | 200 | 195 | 123 | 129 | 19 | 37 | 3 | 15 | 8 (4.0) | 12 | 2 (1.6) | 5 |
| Thompson & Knight | 289 | 301 | 143 | 135 | 16 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 29 (10.0) | 43 | 7 (4.9) | 5 |
| Vinson & Elkins | 511 | 536 | 186 | 198 | 18 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 87 (17.0) | 85 | 12 (6.5) | 17 |
| Weil, Gotshal and Manges* | 114 | 111 | 27 | 26 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 15 (13.2) | 11 | 0 | 2 |
| Winstead | 268 | 255 | 143 | 145 | 29 | 48 | 5 | 14 | 19 (7.1) | 39 | 2 (1.4) | 17 |
| *Firm is not based in Texas. Note: The 25 largest firms in Texas were asked to participate in the Lateral Hiring Survey. The 18 firms that participated hired 303 attorneys in their Texas offices during 2012. Seven firms decline to participate in the survey: Fulbright & Jaworski; Jackson Walker; Jones Day; K&L Gates; King & Spalding; McKool Smith; and Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons. Source: the firms. |
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| Texas Lawyer, February 2013 | ||||||||||||
| Lateral Hires’ Practice Areas The following is a list of practice areas that saw lateral hiring during 2012 at 18 of Texas’ largest firms. |
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| Practice Areas | Number of Attorneys |
| Litigation | 83 |
| Corporate | 57 |
| Intellectual Property | 25 |
| Public finance | 23 |
| Real Estate | 18 |
| Labor and Employment | 12 |
| Tax | 12 |
| Energy | 9 |
| Corporate and Securities | 7 |
| Government Affairs | 7 |
| Environmental | 6 |
| Energy and environmental | 5 |
| Finance/Banking | 5 |
| Insurance | 5 |
| Finance | 4 |
| Real estate finance | 4 |
| Bankruptcy/Restructuring/Reorganization | 3 |
| Global projects | 3 |
| Wealth Preservation/Estate Planning | 3 |
| Apellate | 2 |
| Capital markets | 2 |
| Health care | 2 |
| Oil & Gas | 2 |
| Public | 2 |
| Construction | 1 |
| Family law | 1 |
| Note: The 25 largest firms in Texas, as listed on Texas Lawyer’s The Texas 100 poster for 2012, were asked to participate in the Lateral Hiring Survey. The 18 firms that participated in the survey hired 303 lateral attorneys in their Texas offices during 2012. Seven firms decline to participate in the survey: Fulbright & Jaworski; Jackson Walker; Jones Day; K&L Gates; King & Spalding; McKool Smith; and Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons. Source: the firms |
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| Texas Lawyer, February 2013 | |
