Houston white-collar crime defense lawyers Shaun Clarke and Dane Ball, who practiced together at Gerger & Clarke and then briefly at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in Houston, have joined Smyser Kaplan & Veselka in Houston.

Clarke and Ball joined the 17-lawyer Smyser Kaplan as partners on Nov. 3. They, along with others from Gerger & Clarke, had joined Quinn Emanuel on July 21.