A new survey finds that 82 percent of Texas law firm leaders have been approached over the last year about a potential combination, and 32 percent say they are open to considering it.
For 2018, 18 of the 25 firms with the most lawyers in Texas announced 85 lawyers to partner, which is a 25 percent increase over the number of new partners at those firms in 2017.
In a Q&A, Stefanie Moll, managing partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius' Houston office, says she has run into situations in which she was not taken seriously because of her gender, but she found that "out-lawyering" those men was an effective way to solve the problem.