The firm also represented clients active in the Soviet Union beginning in the early 1970s although the firm did not set up an office in Russia until 1991. In 1979, the firm opened its second Texas office in the state s capital, Austin, followed by a Dallas branch in 1986. The Dallas office has since grown into the firm s largest outside Houston. In that same year, the Moscow office relocated to 16 Ulitsa Spirodonovka, putting it within strolling distance of the Kremlin and Red Square. In addition to its Houston home, the firm has offices in Austin, Dallas, Washington, DC, London, Moscow, Singapore, and Beijing.
Foreign assignments are reportedly hard to come by, however.
They say how you get in is, you ask and after a few years you get transferred, says an incredulous source, but I ve never seen it happen. You must have a relationship with a partner who is going. You can t really request to go. No longer just centered around oil and gas, the practice now handles antitrust, intellectual property, medical and professional malpractice, securities law, and a host of other specialties. Two of the firm s 1997 cases, the libel trial of Kastrin v. CBS, Inc. and the personal injury suit Ainsworth v. Colonial Pipeline Co. , were ranked among the top 15 defense victories in 1997 by The American Law Journal .