Winstead PC
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Winstead PC is a national corporate law
Corporate law
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 firm with offices in Texas
Texas
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 and Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 In 2010 the National Law Journal listed Winstead PC among the 250 largest law firms in the United States with 270 attorneys. Based in the Renaissance Tower
Renaissance Tower
Renaissance Tower is a , 56-story modernist skyscraper located at 1201 Elm Street in downtown Dallas, Texas. The tower is the second tallest in the city, the fifth tallest in Texas, and the 24th tallest in the United States...

 in Downtown
Downtown Dallas
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 Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

, the firm's attorneys and consultants serve as legal advisors to mid-market and large businesses, providing legal services to industries including biotechnology
Biotechnology
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, construction, energy, financial services, insurance, nanotechnology
Nanotechnology
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, real estate and sports business and technology.

Offices

Winstead PC has eight offices across the United States, including Texas locations in Austin
Austin
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, Charlotte
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, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and The Woodlands
The Woodlands
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; and Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....


Headquarters

In 1986 Winstead PC moved from the Mercantile National Bank complex to the Renaissance Tower
Renaissance Tower
Renaissance Tower is a , 56-story modernist skyscraper located at 1201 Elm Street in downtown Dallas, Texas. The tower is the second tallest in the city, the fifth tallest in Texas, and the 24th tallest in the United States...

. As of 2008 Winstead PC occupied almost 200000 square foot of space in the building; the lease expires in 2012. During that year the firm hired CB Richard Ellis
CB Richard Ellis
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 to study possibilities for relocation. Winstead considered Uptown Dallas
Uptown Dallas
Uptown is a PID and neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. Uptown is adjacent-to and north-of downtown Dallas, and is bordered by US 75 on the east, N Haskell Avenue on the northeast, Katy Trail on the northwest, Bookhout Street and Cedar Springs Road on the west, N Akard Street on the southwest and Spur...

as a location.

History

Winstead was founded in 1973 by three young Dallas lawyers—including current name shareholder Pete Winstead. By the end of the 1980s the Dallas practice had expanded to more than 170 attorneys, with additional offices in Houston and Austin. Acquisitions of existing firms in Fort Worth, The Woodlands and Washington, D.C., resulted in greater expansion of client services. In 2001 the firm acquired three small Texas firms in the space of five months, and now employs 281 attorneys in seven locations across the United States.

2011 Houston Office Lateral Recruiting

Winstead has been on a hiring spree this year, adding 28 lawyers across its footprint, including seven in Houston prior to the latest move. Legal sector HR search firms say Winstead is one of several firms that have recently enticed groups of Houston attorneys away from competitors.

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