The Lanier Law Firm is planning to open an office in London in the first quarter of 2010 to handle its new international arbitration practice. Firm founder Mark Lanier and Dana Taschner, the managing attorney of the Los Angeles office, are heading up the practice group.

Mark Lanier formed the Lanier Law Firm in 1990. It is headquartered in Houston, and currently has additional offices in New York, Los Angeles and Palo Alto.