FBT Gibbons is continuing the strategic growth of its Real Estate practice group and Dallas office with the addition of Christopher A. Villa as a partner. Villa brings a rare combination of in-house design-build experience and private-practice disputes work, further strengthening the firm’s ability to advise clients from the earliest project decisions through execution and dispute resolution as it expands its development and construction work across Texas and nationwide. Villa joins the firm from The Beck Group, where he served as senior counsel supporting the company’s construction, architecture, and design-build operations.

More >>

Willkie today announced that it has added a leading data center and digital infrastructure team, including four real estate partners based in Willkie’s Dallas office. The partners are James Grice, Bruce ‘Eddie’ Lowry, Michael McKinley, and Thu Pham. The group significantly expands Willkie’s capabilities in the sector and further strengthens the Firm’s broader infrastructure and real estate platform. The team joins from Akerman.

More >>

Kirkland & Ellis announced today that first-chair trial lawyer Andrew LeGrand has joined the Firm as a litigation partner. He joins Kirkland from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he was a partner.

More >>

Willkie today announced that prominent litigators Grant Schmidt and Andrew Bean have joined the Firm as partners in the Dallas office. Their addition extends Willkie’s global litigation team to Texas and deepens the commercial litigation and trial capabilities available to clients across the state and nationally. The duo arrives from Hilgers PLLC.

More >>