Andrews Kurth is pleased to announce that Christopher F. Richardson, general counsel for an international oil & gas company, is joining the firm’s Houston office as a partner. More >>

Andrews Kurth, an international business law firm with market-leading practices in energy, finance and technology, announced today that it has entered into an agreement that will allow it to bolster its intellectual property and technology practice by adding 55 lawyers from Kenyon & Kenyon. Kenyon is a top-tier intellectual property and technology firm long recognized for its global legal work in patent, trademark and copyright litigation, counseling and prosecution for Fortune 500 companies. The firm will market its intellectual property and technology practice and certain offices as Andrews Kurth Kenyon. The transaction is scheduled to close, and the Kenyon & Kenyon team would join the firm, in early September. More >>

Strasburger & Price, LLP (Strasburger) is pleased to announce that Bonita L. Hatchett has joined the firm as a partner. She will work in Strasburger’s Houston office and practice with the employee benefits, executive compensation, pension and employee retirement practice groups, while also supporting the tax and labor and employment groups. More >>

Maritime and energy attorney Julia Palmer has joined Holland & Knight’s Houston office as a partner. She was formerly a shareholder with Gray Reed & McGraw, P.C. More >>

Dentons, the global law firm, today named Mark Wege as a partner in the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice. He will be resident in the Firm’s fast-growing Houston office. More >>

Orrick announced today that Gabriel Salinas has joined the firm as a partner in its M&A and Private Equity practice and Latin America team, resident in its Houston office. Orrick launched its Houston office earlier this year and has rapidly grown it to 42 lawyers drawing on top-tier talent in the Texas market. Gabriel joins Orrick from Mayer Brown. More >>

Labor and employment attorney Charles Jeremiah has joined Holland & Knight’s Houston office as a partner. He was formerly a partner with Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith. More >>

King & Spalding announced today that Jeffery K. Malonson has joined the firm’s corporate and energy teams as a partner in its Houston office. More >>

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has expanded its U.S. and cross-border labor, employment and workplace safety practice with the addition of Houston partner Nickolas G. Spiliotis. He joins K&L Gates from Texas-based law firm Jackson Walker LLP. More >>

Yetter Coleman is pleased to announce that Tim McConn has joined the firm as a partner. A highly-regarded commercial trial lawyer, Tim’s practice focuses on representing clients as plaintiffs and defendants principally in the upstream and midstream sectors of the oil and gas industry. McConn joins the firm from Andrews Kurth, where he was a partner. More >>