Hurshell Brown joined Hudson Cook as a partner in Fort Worth, along with counsel Curtis Linscott and associate Andrea Cottrell. Brown and Cottrell came from Brown & Cottrell, where they had practiced since October 2016 after leaving Fort Worth-based Cash America International, which merged a year ago with First Cash. Linscott, former executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Cash America, also left the company a year ago.

Hudson Cook chairman Michael Benoit, a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, said the 20-year-old firm has been eying an office in Texas for several years.