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McGuireWoods LLP is establishing a Texas presence by acquiring a nine-member litigation boutique, Nickens Keeton Lawless Farrell & Flack LLP, with offices in Houston and Austin, effective Jan. 1.
Another Houston litigator, Ron Franklin of the Houston firm of Franklin, Cardwell & Jones, also will join McGuireWoods.
McGuireWoods Chairman Richard Cullen said, “Establishing an office in Texas [...]

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McGuireWoods is taking it step-by-step in hiring of this year’s summer associates, according to a report.
The Above The Law blog says it’s received word that 11 of 48 McGuire summer associates have received hiring letters, while the remainder have been told to hang around for possible additional hiring decisions.
A source within the firm told ATL [...]

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The Metro Business section of today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch features a profile of McGuireWoods chairman Richard Cullen.
The article focuses on the role that business and politics have played in Cullen’s legal career.

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McGuireWoods LLP has long insisted that it is bipartisan, but such highly visible and overtly Republican partners over the years as former Virginia governors John Dalton and George Allen have made that a tough sell.
In what appears to be an effort to counter that Republican image, the firm, in the words of its press release, [...]

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McGuireWoods LLP will merge the Helms Mullis & Wicker PLLC, a Charlotte-based firm with 145 lawyers, on March 31.
McGuireWoods Chairman Richard Cullen said the firms’ “complementary expertise in capital markets, business litigation and corporate law … is a natural fit that will benefit the clients of both firms.”
Peter J. Covington, chairman and managing member of [...]

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Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers LLC, a consulting outfit, have published for the first time a list of “The Best Law Firms for Women.”
Fifty firms nationally were named, based on an application that covered issues important “to the retention and promotion of women lawyers.” Those topics included workforce profile, benefits and compensation, parental leave, [...]

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McGuireWoods, the Richmond-based legal giant, has a new managing partner, Thomas E. Cabaniss (see picture at right).
Cabaniss, a partner in the firm’s Charlotte office and the first managing partner from outside Richmond, succeeds William J. Strickland, who held the post for 11 years. Strickland will return to full-time practice in the firm’s capital markets department.
Cabaniss [...]

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