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Rackspace GC is Tired of “Giving Money to a Protection Racket”
By Jeff BoundsContributing Writer for The Texas Lawbook
(June 13) – Alan Schoenbaum is fed up with patent trolls and he’s not going to take it any more. The San Antonio tech GC vows to fight the patent assertion entities. “It’s a game of prisoner’s dilemma – who can get out for the cheapest," says Schoenbaum. "It’s a losing game in the long run. We don’t want to play that game any more."
Federal Civil Jury Trials Decline to New Lows
By Mark CurridenSenior Writer for The Texas Lawbook
(June 12) – Federal Appeals Judge Pat Higginbotham warned lawyers and federal judges in 1997 that civil jury trials were headed to extinction. Most lawyers and judges scoffed. After all, no state in the country trusted citizen juries to resolve personal and business disputes more than Texas. During the 16 years since Judge Higginbotham’s warning, civil jury trials have plummeted to historic 40 year lows.
“The reduction in jury trials isn’t about the empty courthouse," Judge Higginbotham says. "it is about the alienation of the people from the process. The jury system is about governance.”
Attorney Fees Awarded in Landmark Voting Rights Act Case
The historic case determined last year the City of Farmers Branch's election system was unfair to Hispanics and other minorities.…
Belo Turns to Wachtell Lipton in $2.2 Billion Sale to Gannett
Belo Executive VP of Law Guy Kerr and Belo GC Russell Coleman went to Wall Street's elitist and most expensive law firm, Wachtell, to have them on the…
Texas Law Firm GCs Watching Georgia Supreme Court Case
ATLANTA (June 6) – Do communications between a law firm's lawyers and its in-house GC fall under the attorney-client privilege and work product when a dispute arises between…
Rape Victim Claims Police, Prosecutor Used Her as “Sexual Bait”
The Fifth Circuit federal appeals court is examining the case of a teenage rape victim who claims the police and prosecutor in her case knew she was being…
Dallas Court of Appeals Rejects Bickel & Brewer’s Disqualification Mandamus — Updated
The firm is accused of improperly paying a former exec of an opposing corporation who had confidential inside legal information critical to the case.…
V&E, Baker Botts and T&K Advise in Joint Acquisition
The acquisition will give the companies additional exposure to increasing well complexity and horizontal well completion activity.…
Range Resources Adds Deputy GC
By Mark Curriden, JD
Senior Writer for The Texas Lawbook
(June 17) – The Fort Worth oil and gas company is expanding its corporate in-house legal department. David Goldberg, a partner at Kelly Hart and former GC at Union Drilling, is Range's new deputy general counsel. Range GC David Poole says the company's legal needs have increased as the company has grown.
Winners and More Winners at DFW GC Forum Golf Tourney
By Patricia Baldwin
Lifestyle Writer for The Texas Lawbook
(June 12) – It was a hot day, but a cool event, for participants in the annual golf tournament of the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the General Counsel Forum. One stroke separated the first place team of GCs from Charles River Associates and Bell Helicopter and the second place team sponsored by Precision Discovery. FlexJet's Amanda Willis took the prize for the longest drive. Although no one hit a hole-in-one and won the Model S Tesla, a good time was had by all.
American Airlines Names Post Merger VP Over Legal and Regulatory Affairs
Long-time AA General Counsel Gary Kennedy is leaving after nearly three decades working in the…
Baker & McKenzie Elects Amar Budarapu its Chair of North America Corporate & Securities Practice
The recently elected chair talks about how important Texas is to the firm's corporate strategy.…
Bob Dedman: Post ClubCorp, Guiding New Chapter of Family Business, Golf Legacy
(June 4) - Longtime Dallas businessman and SMU law graduate Bob Dedman is known for…
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IP Navigation Group
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Precision Discovery
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Schiffer Odom
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US Airways
Valhi Inc.
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