. . . Robert A. Jacobson, a tax attorney, has joined Bracewell & Giuliani in Houston as a partner.

. . . New associates in the Dallas office of McGuireWoods are Nam Huynh, Aaron James Pickell, Joel Bannister, Amy Jeanette Childers, Meadow Clendenin, Adam Edris, Courtney Mitchell, J. Ryan Mitchelland Cedric Powell.