{"id":165843,"date":"2026-10-22T20:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/22\/mcginnis-lochridge-taps-charles-gillis-as-coo-heading-into-firms-100th-year\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T20:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:06:10","slug":"mcginnis-lochridge-taps-charles-gillis-as-coo-heading-into-firms-100th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/22\/mcginnis-lochridge-taps-charles-gillis-as-coo-heading-into-firms-100th-year\/","title":{"rendered":"McGinnis Lochridge Taps Charles Gillis as COO Heading Into Firm\u2019s 100th Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-202908\" src=\"https:\/\/attorneyatlawmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Charles-Gillis_PR-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Charles-Gillis\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\">AUSTIN. TX\u2014McGinnis Lochridge has hired Charles Gillis as its Chief Operating Officer. Gillis will help guide the firm\u2019s business and operations, including finance, human resources, technology and business growth, working with Managing Partner Carl Galant and the firm\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>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. <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Gillis most recently served for four years as executive director of Platt Richmond PLLC in Dallas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/attorneyatlawmagazine.com\/talk-of-the-town\/mcginnis-lochridge-taps-charles-gillis-as-coo-heading-into-firms-100th-year\" target=\"_blank\">McGinnis Lochridge Taps Charles Gillis as COO Heading Into Firm\u2019s 100th Year<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/attorneyatlawmagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Attorney at Law Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognizing you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/attorneyatlawmagazine.com\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN. TX\u2014McGinnis Lochridge has hired Charles Gillis as its Chief Operating Officer. Gillis will help guide the firm\u2019s business and operations, including finance, human resources, technology and business growth, working with Managing Partner Carl Galant and the firm\u2019s leadership. Gillis knows law firms from the ground up. He started in 1991 as a courthouse runner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal_matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}