Houston Lateral Movement Overview

Over the last 12 months, there were a total of 569 lateral attorney moves in Houston. 332 with Associate, 152 with Partner, 68 with Counsel and 17 with Attorney titles. The top five practices with the most movement are as follows:

Litigation- 27% of Lateral Moves
Corporate- 24% of Lateral Moves
Energy- 16% of Lateral Moves
Labor & Employment- 8% of Lateral Moves
Real Estate- 6% of Lateral Moves

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Coming and Going

PARTNER HIGHLIGHTS

Kirkland & Ellis added seven transactional partners to the Houston office including two corporate energy partners from Latham, three additional corporate partners from Vinson & Elkins, Hunton Andrews Kurth and Weil, an energy project finance partner from Simpson Thacher and a corporate tax partner from Thompson & Knight. Morgan Lewis added six partners to their health care and corporate practices with a Baker Hostetler team of four transactional healthcare partners, a health care litigation partner and a corporate partner. An additional corporate partner from Jones Day with PE/M&A expertise rounds out the six. Shearman Sterling planted the flag in Houston with a four energy partners from Baker Botts, two additional corporate energy partners from Thompson & Knight and Jones Day and a Tax Partner from Thompson & Knight. Sidley nabbed four corporate partners and a tax partner from Hunton Andrews Kurth as well as an environmental partner from Bracewell. And, White and Case also opened in Houston with eight total laterals including a strong slate of energy partners from Hunton Andrews Kurth, King & Spalding, Vinson & Elkins, Paul Hastings and Akin Gump as well as a Tax partner from King & Spalding and a Litigator from Kirkland.