By relying on practice leaders to recruit and focusing on six specific areas that it claims touch high-value sectors, Mayer Brown has raised the number of lateral partner hiring this year from 26 to 56.

Contrary to popular belief, Gen Z lawyers do not appear to be switching firms more frequently than their predecessors. According to research, millennial lawyers have actually made more moves early in their careers than Gen Z lawyers thus far. According to insiders, integrating new personnel into the company’s culture is crucial to reducing firm-hopping.

One of the top Black attorneys at the Securities and Exchange Commission was Nekia Hackworth Jones. Before joining the Division of Enforcement as one of its four deputy directors in April, she oversaw the organization’s Atlanta Regional Office.

Honigman recently invested in and partnered with Precision Pool & Spa, a full-service pool maintenance and construction company that offers residential pool installation, renovation, maintenance, and other services throughout upstate New York, on behalf of O2 Investment Partners and its pool care platform, Azureon, a provider of pool care services in the United States.

Dentons has provided advice to Infracapital, M&G Plc’s infrastructure equity investment division, on the sale of its 100% ownership in Nexera to a group that includes APG Asset Management and Orange Poland.

Credicorp Ltd., a client of Baker McKenzie, has announced that Banco de Crédito del Río (BCP), its subsidiary, has reached an agreement to purchase 100% of Helm Bank USA’s issued and outstanding shares for USD 180 million, subject to normal price adjustments at closure.

With great pleasure, Spencer Fane LLP welcomes Rachel G. Marshall as an associate in the Labor and Employment Practice Group at its Houston office.

As 2025 came to an end, Texas Lawyer spoke with the executives of many local Texas businesses, from Am Law 100 firms to medium firms, to find out how their firm performed in 2025 and what they anticipated for 2026. According to the firm leaders, the year has been good for law firms overall, and…

Earlier this year, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher won a specialist Litigation Department of the Year award in IP at The American Lawyer’s Industry Awards, thanks in part to its efforts on intellectual property litigation on behalf of Cisco Systems.

Paul Weiss, Kirkland, Latham, and Goodwin are a few of the rapidly expanding companies as American-based organizations keep up their unrelenting assault on the capital of the United Kingdom.