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Austin Startup Battles Toy Giant Hasbro Over Water Guns - In late August 2021, several top executives for toy giant Hasbro flew from the company’s headquarters in Rhode Island to Austin to attend a backyard party that erupted into a water-gun battle. The weapons involved would become one of the hottest new toys to hit the market since the Super Soaker. The good times, however, didn't last. A year later, the backyard fun had become a full-fledged David-versus-Goliath legal battle. March 21, 2023Loren Steffy

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Texas Justices Mull TCPA’s Reach in Winstead Malpractice Suit - The state’s high court will have to decide if the filing of an allegedly deficient motion for default judgment is a “communication” as Winstead argues, which would end USA Lending’s lawsuit, or if USA Lending is correct that the basis of its suit is the failure to communicate. The case implicates the Texas Citizens Participation Act and asks whether it applies in legal malpractice suits. March 22, 2023Michelle Casady
OAG Says Whistleblowers Knew $3.3M Settlement OK Could Take Years - In a nine-page response to a request from the whistleblowers to lift an abatement in the case after they alleged a bait-and-switch on the $3.3 million settlement deal, the Office of the Attorney General told the Texas Supreme Court the case should stay paused while the Legislature considers approval. March 21, 2023Michelle Casady
CDT Roundup: 7 Deals, 7 Firms, 78 Lawyers, $14B - It's been five years since New York-headquartered Shearman & Sterling opened its first offices in Texas. The CDT Roundup thought it might be a good time to check in with Bill Nelson, the head of those Texas offices. His thoughts about the transition and the changes he's seen in his practice are featured this week, along with a relatively skimpy roll call of the 78 lawyers who ignored spring break to turn in this week's roster of deals. March 21, 2023Claire Poole & Allen Pusey
Litigation Roundup: ‘Well Past Time for [Fifth Circuit] to be Dragged Screaming into the 21st Century’ - In this edition of Litigation Roundup, a Fifth Circuit judge urges the court to join the 21st Century, a Houston college sues a business partner in a recruiting spat and a one-time candidate for president of Mexico goes to prison. March 20, 2023Michelle Casady
Latham Advises Incitec Pivot on $1.68B sale of Louisiana Ammonia Facility - The sale to CF Holdings, coupled with a long-term supply agreement, is part of a plan announced last November to spin off its industrial explosives subsidiary Dyno Nobel Americas. CF has energy transition upgrades planned for the site. Allen Pusey has the deal details, as well as the Latham lawyers involved. March 20, 2023Allen Pusey

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San Antonio City Attorney Andrew Segovia Aims to be ‘Client-Driven’ - When Andy Segovia was voted to be San Antonio's chief legal officer in 2016, Councilman Joe Krier told him he was about to "take up the business of professional cat herding." The Lawbook interviewed Segovia, a former in-house lawyer for GM, about how it's going, the current Texas legislative session and his establishment of the city's department of diversity, equity and inclusion. Photo credit: John Davenport /San Antonio Express-News March 22, 2023Nushin Huq

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DOJ Announces Significant Policy Changes Affecting Corporate Criminal Enforcement - On the heels of its recent Corporate Enforcement Policy updates, the U.S. Department of Justice announced several new policies around executive compensation clawbacks, ephemeral messaging, and the intersection of corporate crime and national security. The eagerly expected announcements provide tangible guideposts for all companies on key hot-button issues. Questions persist, however, about consistent enforceability of such policies as well as material differences between DOJ's guidance and other rules under federal securities laws for public companies and regulated entities. March 20, 2023Scott Mascianica & Eddie Jauregui

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Wal-Mart May Pursue Case Against Xerox Over Food Benefit System Outage Losses
Pro Se Plaintiff Whiffs at Fifth Circuit in Case Against MLB
P.S. — Spring Fundraising Warms Up, Pro Bono for In-House Lawyers — Updated
Updated – Texas Court Rules PUC Price-Setting During Winter Storm Uri Unlawful
Austin City Attorney Anne Morgan Doing Legal Work ‘That Makes the World a Little Bit Better’
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Appellate

  • Lack of Evidence Dooms Farmers’ Spray-Drift Suit
  • Texas Supreme Court to Hear Winstead Malpractice Case
  • Oral Argument Re-Do: Texas Justices Focus on German Automakers’ Conduct in Emissions Scandal Suit

Bankruptcy

  • Not Just Any Decision: The Ongoing Power Struggle Between Bankruptcy Courts and State Regulators
  • Avaya Hires Kirkland, Jackson Walker to Lead Bankruptcy Restructuring in Houston
  • Just Energy’s $335M Bankruptcy Dispute at Fifth Circuit

Commercial Litigation

  • The Evolving Landscape of Business Email Compromise Litigation — A Focus on Texas
  • Austin City Attorney Anne Morgan Doing Legal Work ‘That Makes the World a Little Bit Better’
  • When Clients Make Bad Decisions: What’s a Lawyers’ Duty?

Corp. Deal Tracker/M&A

  • Shearman Advises SAP SE in $12.5B Qualtrics Take-Private Deal
  • Texas Startups Hope to Continue Raising Capital Despite Tech Downturn
  • Foreign Investment Still Welcome in the U.S. Despite Buy American Rules

GCs/Corp. Legal Depts.

  • 15 GCs and Senior In-House Counsel Talk Diversity, Law Firms, Pipeline
  • TI’s Debbie Bartlett: A Lifetime of Achievements
  • HF Sinclair’s Vaishali Bhatia Balances Concerns of Business and Law, and Wins a Green Apatosaurus

White-Collar/Regulatory

  • Former Justice Michael Massengale’s Mission: ‘Set the Record Straight’ About Uvalde
  • Prosecutors Secure Plea Deal, Won’t Retry Ex-Blue Bell CEO
  • Chron: Meet New SDTX U.S. Attorney Alamdar Hamdani, Son of a Cab Driver  

Firm Management

  • Q&A on the Importance of Women Mentoring Women
  • Haynes and Boone Opens Virginia Outpost
  • The Gifts of Mentorship

Stories You Might’ve Missed

  • Winter Storm Uri Litigation Heating Up at Two Year Mark - The massive legal battle pitting thousands of Texas residents and small business owners against hundreds of energy companies, such as NRG Power, Calpine, Oncor Electric and ExxonMobil, over damages incurred during Winter Storm Uri two years ago is finally heating up. This week’s two-year anniversary of the crippling winter storm also means that the statute of limitations for most Uri-related lawsuits takes effect this week.

    Lawyers representing more than 1,500 Texans and businesses have filed more than 80 new wrongful death, personal injury and property damage lawsuits against more than 360 energy companies and ERCOT since last Thursday. Dozens more lawsuits are expected to be filed in Texas courts Wednesday and Thursday.

    The Texas Lawbook wrongly reported earlier that CPS Energy had filed for Chapter 11.
    February 15, 2023Mark Curriden
  • Texas Lawbook Foundation Launches, Natalie Posgate to Lead Pro Bono, Public Service and Diversity Coverage in Texas - The daily news is filled with articles about lawyers scoring multimillion-dollar jury verdicts, closing billion-dollar M&A deals or reaping tens-of-millions of dollars in annual firm profits. The Texas Lawbook announces today its commitment to focus significantly more on what is essentially the legal profession's ESG. From this day forward, The Lawbook has a full-time reporter — Natalie Posgate — doing nothing but researching and writing about pro bono, public service and diversity efforts involving Texas law firms and corporate legal departments. She will publish articles that highlight the successes of Texas lawyers and firm leaders, but also examine where and how the legal profession is failing. Posgate will be the first legal journalist in Texas to write exclusively about pro bono and diversity. November 1, 2022Mark Curriden

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Features

  • Range Resources GC David Poole Retires after 15 Years, Joins Wick Phillips - David Poole, who worked on an oil rig out of high school and rose to become the top legal officer at two major energy companies in Texas, retired as the GC of Range Resources Friday. In an interview with The Texas Lawbook on Sunday, Poole discusses his passion for oil and gas law, his challenges and successes as a GC for two decades, his best day on the job and his plans for the future at Wick Phillips. March 20, 2023Mark Curriden

GCs, Lawyers & Firms

  • ‘Such a Privilege’: New HK Partner Reflects on Career as a Nonprofit Lawyer - Jonathan Blum has a multitude of skills as a corporate lawyer, but he's one of the few who represents nonprofits instead of for-profits. The Lawbook recently spoke with Blum about his career path to practicing nonprofit law, trends in the charity and nonprofit world and why he recently moved his practice to Holland & Knight.
  • Baylor Law Dean to Step Down After 31 Years
  • Senior Exxon Mobil Counsel’s Move to Gibson Dunn is ‘Very Personal’
  • Veteran Dallas Prosecutor Tapped as EDTX U.S. Attorney
  • Former Texas Appellate Judge Rejoins Dykema
  • Haynes and Boone Opens Virginia Outpost
  • White & Case Hires Three Bracewell Litigators in Houston
  • Remembering Fort Worth Federal Judge John McBryde
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Lawyers in the News

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Alan Albright
Alan Alexander
William Aronin
Victoria Bahrami-Negad
Gina M. Benavides
Bill Benitez
Anya Bidwell
Will Bos
Jamila Brinson
Robert Burford
Ian Bushner
Zachary Carlson
David Castro
Jack Chadderdon
Nathan Chapman
Michelle Chiu
Jason T. Contreras
Cody Conwell
C. Celeste Creswell
Cassandra Cuellar
Matthew C. Daly 
Chad Davis
Lowell Denton
Jeff Diamant
Becky Diffen
Michael Dorf
Stuart Kyle Duncan
Mark Dundon
Kurt D. Engelhardt
Yong Eoh
Patrick M. Jaicomo
Scott C. Faciane
Archie Fallon
Analisa Figueroa
Murray Fogler
Tyler Frankel
Gabriela Garcia
Sameer Ghaznavi
Shayna M. Goldblatt
Michelle Gray
Steven Haas
Kendall Hayden
Alia Heintz
Benjamin Hershkowitz
Patrick E. Higginbotham
Tara Higgins
Allyson Ho
James Ho
Kenneth Hoyt
Robert Hughes
Martin S. Hyman
Andrew Ingram
Ralph Janvey
Geetika Jerath
Shawn Johnson
Cyril Jones
David Keltner
Jim Kennedy
Elizabeth Kiernan
Dan Komarek
Kenneth J. Lambert
Sang Lee
Andrew LeGrand
David Levy
Alec Manzer
Peter Marshall
Amos Mazzant III
Levi McCathern
Daniel McEntee
Robert McNamara
Tom Melsheimer
Andres Mena
Katherine Montoya
Veronica Moyé
Robert J. Myers 
Jason Nasra
Brennon Nelson
Stephen Noh
Pete O'Brien
Stephen Pate
Sam Peca
Lionel Aron Peña Jr.
Brent Perry
Connie Pfeiffer
Ravi Purohit
Clint Rancher
Brian Rosenthal
Kevin Sadler
David Salmons
Jody Sanders
Akash Sethi
Gregory Shamoun
John J. Shaw
Barry Shelton
Lande Spottswood
Amy M. Stewart
Tim Taylor
Mike Telle
Jaime E. Tijerina
Scott Tschirhart
Jon Waldrop
Camille Walker
Sean Wheeler
Debbie Yee

Firms in the News

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AEP
Amyris
Baker Botts
Baytex Energy
Bernhard Capital Partners
Bison Oil & Gas
Burford Perry
CenterPoint Energy
Clark Hill
Copenhagen Infrastructure
Cozen O'Connor
Dell
Denton Navarro Rocha
Fogler Brar O’Neil 
Gibson Dunn
Golenbock Eiseman
HBS
Hedrick Kring
HSBC
Hunton AK
Independent Bank
Institute for Justice
International Entertainment
Invenergy
IRG
Jackson Walker
JP Morgan
Kabat Chapman & Ozmer
Kasowitz
Kelly Hart
Kirkland
Landry's
Latham
Lemoine
Lotus Infrastructure 
Marriott
Mastercard
McCathern
McGuireWoods
Morgan Lewis
Myers & Shaw
NeuVentus
Norton Rose Fulbright
Paymentech
PBF Energy
Providence Equity Partners
Quantum Energy Partners
Ranger Oil
Shamoun & Norman
Shearman & Sterling
Sidley
Stewart Law Group
TD Bank
UTRGV
V&E
Visa
VMware
Wafra
Weil
Wildcat Capital
Willkie
Winston & Strawn
WSOU Investments 
Yetter Coleman

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