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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure why you are all emphasizing my daughter. She will go wherever we go. If we split, she will spend part of her time with each of us. I am not saying we will split.[b] I am asking for advice on the Dallas market.[/b] Which big law firms are prominent there? Which areas of law should a litigator emphasize?[/quote]

That's not at all what your OP asked.[/quote]

It isn't what you asked.  Previous posters have questioned the fact that your first reaction was that your only option was divorce, before you even tried to research the Dallas legal market, much less made any effort at finding a job (or even found Irving on map? Yes, Irving is suburb of Dallas --think Fairfax County vs. DC). As someone noted, this is Dallas, not Baghdad. In fact, I find it hard to believe anyone active in biglaw in DC would be completely unaware of the big Dallas firms, since most of them have offices here in DC. (For example, I've never practiced in Cleveland, but I know the big firms there -- and it's a smaller legal market than Dallas.)  I'm also questioning your bizarre idea that law firms don't hire mid-level associates as laterals.  I'll chalk it up to the fact that you've spent most of your career clerking.

However,  now you asked, here's a start: 
 
http://www.vault.com/company-rankings/law/best-law-firms-in-each-us-region/?sRankID=14

These firms are not all headquartered in Dallas, but I believe they all have substantial Dallas offices.

There are 21 Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Dallas-Ft. Worth area, including Exxon-Mobil (Irving), ATT&T, American Airlines, Flour (Irving) and Kimberly Clark (Irving), and more moving to the area all the time. The oil industry has been hit hard by low oil prices, but it's interesting to note that there are only three oil companies on this list.

A quick search using the term "Dallas legal market" turned up the following article, which notes:

Four elite firms — Gibson Dunn, King & Spalding, Latham & Watkins and Sidley Austin — have stormed the Texas market since 2009. They now have a combined 349 Texas-based lawyers generating more than $360 million in revenue...“We think there’s still significant growth opportunities here,” said Yvette Ostolaza, managing partner of Sidley’s Dallas operation. “Our revenues here are as good, maybe even better, than the national average. So we will continue to seek additional strategic hires.”  http://www.dallasnews.com/business/business-headlines/20150523-elite-law-firms-take-texas-by-storm.ece

Finding this information took me about five minutes.  In your years of clerking, you must have some finely honed research skills.  The fact that you didn't even try to find this information yourself before contemplating divorce does make me think you have no intention of supporting your husband as he has supported you.

I am shocked by how blasé you seem to be about the impact of this on your child. Again, your husband is not asking you to move to an area in which you cannot practice the type of sophisticated litigation you seem to crave.  If you can't make such a relatively minor sacrifice for your husband and child, then you really do have bigger problems.   
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