THE BIG TWELVE

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld

2800 RepublicBank Building Dallas, Texas 75201 655-2800

Size: 211

Managing partner: managed by eight-person committee

Representative clients: does not disclose

Lateral hires: Herb Kendrick, tax, from Jenkens & Gilchrist

Branch offices: Austin, six lawyers; Washington, D.C., 105 lawyers

Notable names: Robert Strauss, former national chairman of the Democratic Party; John Hauer; Alan Feld;
Richard Levin; George Lee; Ford Lacy; Edward Copley



Johnson & Swanson

4700 InterFirst Two Dallas, Texas 75270 653-2000

Size: 170

Representative clients: Cadillac Fair-view, May Petroleum, InterFirst, Digital Switch, Rotan Mosle, Rockwell
International

Managing partner: managed by nine-person executive committee Other offices: far North Dallas, One
Galleria Tower, nine lawyers; Pacific Place, 1910 Pacific, 24 lawyers; Austin, 10 lawyers

Lateral hires: Richard Freling, Henry De Berry and Ray Martin, tax, from Jenkens & Gilchrist; David Glickman,
former deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for tax policy; Bill Roche, corporate, from Texas Instruments

Notable names: John Johnson, Dallas Citizens Council; Wally Swanson; Steve Jenkins, real estate, represents
Gerald Hines; Jim Watson; Ernest Figari



Thompson & Knight

2300 RepublicBank Building

Dallas, Texas 75201

655-7500

Size: 135

Representative clients: does not disclose

Managing partner: Harold F. Klein-man

Branch offices: Two Energy Square, 4849 Greenville Avenue, 12 lawyers; Austin, two lawyers

Lateral hires: as a general policy doesn’t; hired two lawyers in corporate and securities from Rain,
Harrell

Notable names: Jack Little, Dallas Citizens Council; David McAtee, City Plan Commission; J.W. (Waddy) Bullion
(retired partner)



Jenkens & Gilchrist

2200 InterFirst One Dallas, Texas 75202

653-4500

Size: 120

Representative clients: Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Caltex Petroleum, Clint W. Murchi-son
Jr., Saxon Oil Co., Ford Motor Company (litigation matters), Inter-First Bank, Shearson/American Express Inc.

Managing partner: Christie S. Flanagan

Branch offices: far North Dallas, 14850 Montfort (opening June 15); a second downtown location will open
October 1

Lateral hires: several labor lawyers from other Dallas firms

Notable names: George W. Coleman; Alan Bromberg (of counsel), securities expert; William Thau; James H.
Wal-lenstein; Henry Gilchrist, Dallas Citizens Council



Gardere & Wynne

1500 Diamond Shamrock Tower 1700 RepublicBank Building Dallas, Texas 75201 748-7211

Size: 116

Representative clients: Atlantic Richfield Co.; RepublicBank Dallas, N.A.; Henry S. Miller Co.; Murchi-son
Oil and Gas Inc.; Rauscher Pierce Refsnes Inc.; Trammell Crow Co.; Tyler Corp.; Campbell Taggart Inc.

Managing partner: Carl W. Wilson

Lateral hires: five patent lawyers from Richards, Harris & Medlock

Branch offices: none

Notable names: Richard F. Smith, former city councilman; Neil O’Brien, Dallas Citizens Council

Strasburger & Price

1200 One Main Place Dallas, Texas 75202 658-1600

Size: 110

Representative clients: F.D.I.C., First City Bank, Floyd West & Co., General Motors, IBM, Mobil Oil Corp.,
Southern Union Gas, Sun Oil Co., AT&T, Chrysler Corp., Lloyd’s of London

Managing partner: managed by a five-person policy committee

Branch offices: Las Colinas, IBMBuilding, two lawyers

Lateral hires: as a general policy doesn’t; hired five lawyers from other Dallas firms in banking, labor and
litigation

Notable names: Mark Martin, Dallas Citizens Council; Tom Unis, former city councilman; Robert Thomas,
chairman of Dallas Bar Foundation, represents DISD in school desegregation case; Wilson Herndon; Eugene Jericho;
Richard Davis



Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney & Neely

3600 RepublicBank Tower

Dallas, Texas 75201

746-7400

Size: 85, with more hired to start this summer

Representative clients: Texas Turnpike Authority, A.H. Belo Corp., RepublicBank, Lomas & Nettleton, Mutual
Life Insurance Company of New York, Aetna Life Insurance, Equitable Life Assurance, Connecticut General, Warner
Amex, Texas Industries Inc., Pioneer Corporation, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. Managing partner: James J.
Laney (president of the corporation), Dallas Citizens Council

Branch offices: none

Lateral hires: David Bickel, former assistant U.S. attorney

Notable names: Stanley Neely, Governor’s Commission for the Deaf; Dick Rogers; Charles Purnell; Maurice
Purnell Jr.



Hughes & Hill

1000 Mercantile Dallas Building

Dallas, Texas 75201

651-0477

Size: 82

Representative clients: EDS, Mercantile Texas Corp. and Mercantile National Bank of Dallas, Harte-Hanks,
Holly Corp., Mississippi Chemical, Sammons Enterprises, Lomas & Net-tleton

Managing partner: Thomas W. Luce III, Dallas Citizens Council Branch offices: far North Dallas, Two
Lincoln Center, five lawyers; Austin, three lawyers

Lateral hires: Rod Phelan from Car-rington, Coleman; Richard Hull, Dar-rell Jordan, Jim Ramsey and Tim Duffy
from Crutcher, Hull Notable names: Vester Hughes, tax; John Hill, former state attorney general



Winstead, McGuire, Sechrest & Minick

1700 Mercantile Dallas Building Thanks-Giving Tower, 7th Floor Dallas, Texas 75201 742-1700

Size: 76

Representative clients: does not disclose

Managing partner: William B. Sech-rest

Branch offices: none

Lateral hires: Since January 1982, the firm has hired 21 lawyers laterally, both from private practice and
from government, including former Dallas assistant city attorney Barry Knight

Notable names: Peter Winstead, vice chairman of the board of the Metropolitan YMCA and board of directors of
the Shelton School and Evaluation Center; David A. Dean, immediate past Texas secretary of state; Charles J.
McGuire, advisory board of directors of Jesuit College Preparatory School; Thomas W. Oliver; W. Michael Baggett; W.
Ted Minick

Jackson, Walker, Winstead, Cantwell & Miller

4300 InterFirst One

Dallas, Texas 75202

655-2911

Size: 75

Representative clients: Bramalea Ltd., Dallas Mavericks, Olympia & York Texas Development Co., interFirst
Bank, ENSERCH, Dallas Times Herald Managing partner: James L. Truitt Branch offices: none

Lateral hires: one from Turner, Hitchins, tax; three in corporate and securities from Moore & Peterson and
two Houston firms

Notable names: Sam Winstead; A.W. (Jess) Walker, former judge



Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue

3000 Diamond Shamrock Tower

Dallas, Texas 75201

748-3939

Size: 65 (in Dallas) Representative clients: Diamond Shamrock, Trammell Crow Co., Peter Bogdanovich,
National Gyp-sum, Lincoln Property Co., ShowBiz Pizza Place Inc., Rotan Mosle Inc., Shearson/American Express, Farm
and Home Savings Association, Texas Instruments Inc., Frito-Lay Inc., Southwest Athletic Conference Managing
partner: David F. Clossey Other offices: Cleveland (home office), 150 lawyers; Washington, D.C., 60
lawyers; Columbus, 25 lawyers; Los Angeles, 50 lawyers

Lateral hires: Richard K. Kneipper, corporate, securities, entertainment, oil and gas from Wall Street firm;
Gerry D. Osterland, corporate, securities, public utilities and tax-free financing, from prominent Chicago firm;
Richard Galland (of counsel), oil and gas, former chairman of board and CEO of American Petro-fina Inc.

Notable names: Ron Kessler, Federal Savings and Loan Advisory council, welcoming committee of Republican
National Convention; Robert L. Meyers III, co-founder and chairman of construction law section of Dallas Bar
Association



Haynes and Boone

4444 InterFirst Two

Dallas, Texas 75270

744-0550

Size: 62

Representative clients: DISD, Inter-First Bank Dallas, N.A., Richardson Savings and Loan, Sunshine Mining
Co., Southwest Media Corp., Arco Pipeline Co., Gifford-Hill & Co. Inc. Managing partner: Richard Haynes
Branch offices: none

Lateral hires: in 1982, 12 lawyers, mostly from Seay, Gwinn, Crawford & Womble

Notable names: GeorgeBramblett, Dallas County campaign co-chairman for Gov. Mark White; Mike Boone; William
Allensworth; Richard Haynes, vice president, Dallas Museum of Art