AUSTIN. TX—McGinnis Lochridge has hired Charles Gillis as its Chief Operating Officer. Gillis will help guide the firm’s business and operations, including finance, human resources, technology and business growth, working with Managing Partner Carl Galant and the firm’s leadership.
Gillis knows law firms from the ground up. He started in 1991 as a courthouse runner in Austin and then spent more than 30 years leading the business side of law firms in Texas and beyond. He also writes about it. He is the author of The Seven Year Trap: Back Office Observations of the Business of Law and the Path to Partnership (2018) and writes on the business of law for The Texas Lawbook and other publications. Gillis most recently served for four years as executive director of Platt Richmond PLLC in Dallas.
