Most of the big law firms in Texas have delayed start dates and decreased salaries for first year associates. Five big law firms refused to provide data on new associates in their Texas offices including: Baker & McKenzie; Brown McCarrol; Fulbright & Jaworski; Greenberg Traurig; and King & Spalding. The other firms offered this data: there are a combined 358 new associates scattered across these 21 firms. Last year there were 397 new associates. 125 associates, or one-third, will not start until January 1, 2010 or later.

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Katherine “Kit” Addleman is leaving her post as Atlanta regional director of the Securities and Exchange Commission to become a partner at Haynes & Boone, LLP.  For the last 20 years, Addleman has worked in four different SEC regional offices.  Addleman will join the Dallas office at the end of October.

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Andrews Kurth LLP has gained a partner in Dallas.  Marc D. Katz is joining as a partner in the Labor and Employment department.  Katz brings with him, Cristina I. Torres as an associate to the Dallas office.

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Haynes and Boone has taken on John Podvin in Dallas. He is to join the finance group as of counsel.  Podvin was previously deputy general counsel, chief compliance officer and chief privacy officer with a subsidiary of Guaranty Financial Group Inc. Prior to that position, Podvin was a partner at Bracewell & Giuliani (then Bracewell Patterson, LLP).

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Baker Botts has added two notable attorneys to its intellectual property group. Ann Hurwitz and Will K. Wood are now partners in the firm’s Dallas office. They both join from DLA Piper where they were partners.

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Jones Day has welcomed Karen Gren Johnson to its Dallas office as partner.  Johnson, a litigation attorney, was previously a state district judge for eight years.  She also has 18 years of experience in private practice in the field of civil litigation.

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Four female attorneys, Jane Taber, Dawn Estes, Jessica Thorne and Lori CarrFour, are launching their own law firm entitled Taber Estes Thorne & Carr PLLC. All founding four were formerly at the Dallas office of Gardere Wynne Sewell. Together, they bring more than 70 years of big law firm experience in the fields of litigation, labor & employment, and corporate matters.

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Powell Goldstein LLP has announced that it has hired four lateral hires for three of its offices. One hire was that of B.T. Atkinson, a partner in the Financial Institutions practice. Barney Stewart III joins as counsel in the Business and Finance practice. Both join Powell’s Charlotte office. The Dallas office adds Bruce Howell as counse in the Health Care practice. Roy Hadley has been hired by the Atlanta office as counsel in the Business and Finance practice.

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Bracewell & Giuliani has announced the addition of Jeffrey J. Ansley and William C. McMurrey as partners to its White Collar Criminal Defense and Special Investigations practice. Both Ansley and McMurrey served as Assistant United States Attorneys in Dallas. Ansley was lead prosecutor for securities fraud cases in the Fraud and Public Corruption/White Collar Section, while McMurry was the Assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of healthcare and financial institution fraud prosecutions.
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Baker Botts has announced the addition of tax attorney Felicia Finston to its Dallas office. Finston brings her 20 years of experience to the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation team. Bakers Botts representatives stated that they look forward to utilizing her long record of excellence.