“Legal Shock and Awe in Dallas”: Winston Partners Profiled in Dallas Business Journal

The Dallas Business Journal profiled Winston's Dallas partners in “Legal Shock and Awe in Dallas: Inside Winston & Strawn's Prominent Talent Haul,” published on June 23, 2017. In the article, the partners discuss, among other things, how the Dallas legal landscape is changing, their approach to growth, and how they were each recruited to open the firm's Dallas office.

Describing the firm as “methodically building a Dallas office of revered courtroom and transactional titans, igniting a seismic shift in the North Texas legal landscape,” the article identifies the bold move as “a type of economic Darwinism.” With 60 lawyers and counting, the Dallas group has already outgrown its new office space and is working to find new real estate.

Dallas Managing Partner Bryan Goolsby spoke to Winston’s sharp focus on the quality of talent versus simple headcount. Bryan used a football analogy to sum up the firm’s aggressive yet highly strategic approach to growth in Texas: “[i]nternally, we’re running the no-huddle offense here, and we’re trying to get in as many plays as we can.”

The Dallas-based team is focused on winning high-level non-commodity work such as private equity and generally more complicated transactions; due to the dynamic nature of the Dallas business community, the city naturally generates that type of work.

Read the full Dallas Business Journal profile here.