When Houston oil and gas litigators Liz Klingensmith and Tony Guerino met at a legal training  event last November, neither would have guessed that less than a year later, they would be building a practice together at a new firm in the Houston market.

Klingensmith joined Womble Bond Dickinson as a partner in Houston this week, coming from Blank Rome. Guerino, formerly of Greenberg Traurig, moved to Womble Bond in late February.