$4 billion H&R Block has hired Brian Woram as senior vice president and general counsel, effective Sept. 14.

Woram will join H&R Block from Dallas-based Centex, where he has served as senior vice president, chief legal officer, and chief compliance officer since 2005. Prior to Centex, Woram was a partner with a Dallas law firm specializing in real estate transactions.

Woram succeeds Carol Graebner as general counsel. Graebner left in November 2007, at which time Jim Ash assumed the role of interim general counsel.