Latham Nabs Kirkland Litigator, Ratcheting Texas Talent War (1)

May 18, 2026, 9:20 PM UTCUpdated: May 18, 2026, 11:01 PM UTC

Latham & Watkins said Monday it hired Kirkland & Ellis partner Carson Young as a partner in Houston to boost its expanding complex commercial litigation practice.

Young is the third partner to come to Latham’s litigation practice this year, following the arrivals of trial lawyers Taj Clayton from Kirkland and Scott Thomas from Winston & Strawn.

Building a litigation practice around the trio of new hires “really positions us to scale a litigation platform to be top of the market in a way that we’ve never done before,” Nick Dhesi, managing partner of the firm’s Houston office, said in an ...

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