Law.com is reporting the merger of Locke Liddell & Sapp with Lord Bissell & Brook into a 700+ attorney law firm.  This merger of "third coast" and "second city" firms will definitely give the larger Locke Liddell a larger national profile.  (Locke Liddell is itself the product of a 1990s merger of Liddell, Sapp , Zivley, Hill & LaBoon and Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell.)  Of course, you may remember Locke Liddell as the home of Harriet Miers, who has recently returned there.

What strikes me as interesting is this quote from the managing partner of Locke, Liddell:  "To my knowledge, this is the first time a large Texas firm merges with a law firm from outside Texas with offices outside the United States."  That's an interesting place in the record books!  There have been mergers of Texas law firms with non-Texas law firms and mergers of Texas law firms with foreign offices and non-Texas law firms.  But this is the first merger of a Texas firm with a non-Texas firm with foreign offices.  Surely there's something more interesting about the merger than that!

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