Winston Hires 23 Partners, Opens Dallas Office

Typically when a law firm opens an office in a new geography, it recruits a handful of lawyers from the outside, usually from the same firm.

Tossing that playbook to the side and forming a new one, Winston & Strawn LLP announced on Monday the hiring of 23 partners from eight different law firms in Texas, the bulk of whom will join in Dallas, where the firm is opening an office.

The office will be led by Thomas Melsheimer, a trial lawyer from Fish & Richardson who represented Mark Cuban in his 2013 insider trading fraud lawsuit filed by the ...