Bracewell Hires Two Partners From Zuckerman Spaeder in NY

Two top white collar defense partners of Zuckerman Spaeder have left to join Bracewell, the Texas-based firm said on Monday.

Paul Shechtman, who represented former Dewey & LeBoeuf employee Zachary Warren in connection with a fraud case against executives who ran the failed New York law firm, is joining Bracewell along with Barbara Jones, a former federal judge in the Southern District of New York.

The hires come after Bracewell has seen a number of prominent partners exit over the past five months, includingformer New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and a group of broker-dealer attorneys who joined Schulte Roth ...