Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, a Birmingham, Alabama, firm with 525 lawyers, has opened an office in Houston with nine lawyers, including eight construction and energy attorneys who left Houston-based Coats Rose.

The Coats Rose group includes partners Ian Faria and James Collura Jr., who will lead the new Bradley Arant office. Others making the move are partners Jared Caplan and Jon Paul Hoelscher and associates Christian Dewhurst, Ryan Kinder, Justin Scott and Andrew Stubblefield.