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Two Houston Heavyweights Representing Ken Paxton Call Impeachment ‘Baloney’ and ‘Tomfoolery’ - At an Austin news conference, lawyers Tony Buzbee and Dan Cogdell promise a protracted fight to acquit the beleaguered attorney general. They also poked fun at the lead impeachment prosecutors, Rusty Hardin and Dick DeGuerin, saying the pair were introduced earlier by the Texas House “like they were the homecoming king and queen.” June 7, 2023Bruce Tomaso
Texas Lawyers Play Key Role in PGA, LIV Litigation That Led to Merger - Lawyers from Gibson Dunn in Dallas and Quinn Emanuel in Austin played key roles on the litigation teams behind antitrust litigation between the two rival tours. Mark Curriden has the names and details. June 6, 2023Mark Curriden
CDT Roundup: 12 Deals, 12 Firms, 138 Lawyers, $6.1B - PureWest was sold last week for $1.84 billion to an unusual consortium of family offices and financial institutions. But you knew that because we wrote about the 67 lawyers at four different firms that worked on it. But PureWest has an interesting history that winds from Wyoming to Appalachia through a couple of bankruptcies and a couple of different names. The CDT Roundup recounts that history, along with a list of the lawyers and firms who reported their deals last week. June 6, 2023Claire Poole
Litigation Roundup: SCOTX Takes Honda’s $25.9M Seatbelt Injury Appeal, Houston Firm Gets $9.8M Win in Mississippi - In this edition of Litigation Roundup, a Houston firm gets a $9.8 million verdict in a workplace fatality case while the Texas Supreme Court agrees to decide both if a libel suit brought against a newspaper by a prosecutor should be tossed and if a $25.9 million product liability jury verdict against Honda can stand. June 5, 2023Michelle Casady
Clifford Chance Officially Hangs Shingle in Houston - The Texas Lawbook exclusively reported on Friday that Jonathan Castelan joined the Magic Circle firm from Latham & Watkins' Houston office. Trevor Lavelle, a partner at Latham, will also be accompanying him. June 5, 2023Claire Poole
Dick Sayles’ Fourth and Final Act: Master of the Courtroom - Dick Sayles announced Friday that he has departed Bradley Arant to start The Sayles Law Firm with a unique business strategy: He is not seeking any new clients. He is hiring no additional lawyers. And his business plan calls for no future growth or expansion. Instead, Sayles, who has taken more than 150 complex commercial litigation disputes to trial, plans to use his independent status to work with lawyers at other firms, including Bradley Arant, who are involved in high-stakes courtroom battles. The Texas Lawbook has an exclusive interview. June 2, 2023Mark Curriden

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Gibson Dunn, Weil Lead Serta Simmons and Lenders to Bankruptcy Court Victory in SDTX - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones of Houston has approved the billion-dollar bankruptcy reorganization of mattress giant Serta Simmons, which also meant a monumental victory for a handful of investors in distressed debt and a huge legal defeat for some Wall Street leaders. The debt restructuring plan approved by Judge Jones cuts Georgia-based Serta Simmons’ secured debt from $1.9 billion to $315 million. In doing so, the judge coined a new term – position enhancement transaction or PET – that you need to learn.

The five-day trial was led for the Serta Simmons lenders by new Gibson Dunn partner Gregg Costa. This was Costa’s first trial since retiring from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and his first-ever trial in bankruptcy court.
June 8, 2023Mark Curriden

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Texas Business Court Poised to Usher in New Era of High Stakes Commercial Litigation - The Texas business litigation bar is abuzz with anticipation as the Texas business court bill from 2023 heads to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk for signature. Arguably the most transformative change to the Texas judiciary since tort reform, the bill has potential to reshape the way businesses in Texas resolve complex disputes. Despite many open questions, the bill, which would require the business court to begin hearing qualifying cases beginning on Sept. 1, 2024, stands to impact business litigation in Texas sooner than later. May 31, 2023Anna Rotman, Nick Brown & Ben Barnes

More Stories

Legislature Makes Seismic Shifts on Civil Courts
Houston Heavyweights Hardin and DeGuerin to Lead Paxton Impeachment Case
PureWest Energy Closes Merger with Family Offices, Financial Institutions for $1.84B
Judge Starr’s AI Order Draws Praise
Texas’s Top Bar Scorers Share Tips and Inspiration
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Appellate

  • Amici Take Sides in $1.6B IBM, BMC Appeal
  • Fifth Circuit Seeks SCOTX Input in Flight Attendants’ Boeing Suit
  • Unprecedented Situation — Creating Case Law for the New Court of Appeals

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

  • Litigation Roundup: Texas Agrees to $425M in Settlements, Jerry Jones Hires Jackson Walker for Defamation Defense
  • BMW Settles Dallas Suit Over Sale of ‘Lemon’ Used Car
  • Verdict in Personal Injury Case May Limit Future Attorney-Physician Protections

Corp. Deal Tracker/M&A

  • CDT Roundup: 17 Deals, 10 Firms, 67 Lawyers, $12.2B
  • CDT Roundup: 12 Deals, 10 Firms, 101 Lawyers, $7B
  • CDT Roundup: 20 Deals, 18 Firms, 196 Lawyers, $3.3B

GCs/Corp. Legal Depts.

  • New Law Will Reshape Privacy Regulation in Texas
  • Joe Davidson – ‘A Proud Rice Owl’ Making a Difference
  • Mattress Firm GC Kindel Nuno Leads $4B Sale to Tempur Sealy 

White-Collar/Regulatory

  • New SEC Regional Director Eric Werner: ‘My Job is to Protect Investors’
  • SEC Names New Top Cop for Financial Institutions, Publicly Traded Businesses in Texas Region
  • Texas Orders Cayman Islands Crypto Firm to Pay $424,000 and Cease Doing Business

Firm Management

  • Meaningful Change Requires Personal Investment
  • Another Record for Texas Revenues in 2022
  • How to Thrive as a Summer Associate

Stories You Might’ve Missed

  • Texas Law Schools Make Jumps in 2024 U.S. News Rankings - U.S. News & World Report had to delay its release of the 2024 rankings after some institutions raised questions about the data. The new list shows the University of Texas at Austin School of Law still leads the state, but Texas A&M University School of Law is rising rapidly. May 12, 2023Michelle Casady

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Features

  • P.S. — Death Row Removal, Melsheimer’s Fellowship, Debt Collection Jargon Simplified - In this week’s edition of P.S., Texas Access for Justice resumes in-person legal clinics for veterans with multiple June clinic dates, Winston & Strawn’s Tom Melsheimer starts a civil and human rights-related fellowship at Notre Dame, Texas Appleseed launches an effort to make debt collection lawsuits easier for consumer defendants to understand (and participate in their own proceedings), and Kirkland & Ellis scores a pro bono win for a death row inmate in Houston. Natalie Posgate details the latest in the world of public service. June 2, 2023Natalie Posgate

GCs, Lawyers & Firms

  • Clifford Chance Lands Castelan - The energy M&A/infrastructure attorney worked on several deals for Latham, including counseling ExxonMobil and Chevron on projects.
  • Chris Bennett leaving STB for Weil
  • Rahul Vashi Jumps from Kirkland to Gibson Dunn
  • Winston Snags Rodney Moore, Sam Peca from Weil
  • Lee Yeakel Joins King & Spalding
  • Q&A with Willkie’s Tan Lu
  • Omar Samji Departs Shearman for Weil
  • Sidley Lands Winstead Bankruptcy Partner Rakhee Patel
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Lawyers in the News

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Kit Addleman
Geffrey W. Anderson
Daniel Avila II
Jon Benloulou
Mike Bielby
Jimmy Blacklock
Jane Bland
Thomas D. Bowers III
Denis Braham
Thomas Brandt
Ron Breaux
Kenneth Broughton
Kyle Carter
Brian Cathey
Michael Chambers
Tracy Christopher
David Coale
Samuel C. Cole
David S. Cook
Alicia G. Curran
Michael Darden
Joe Davidson
Joshua P. Davis
Adrienne Dominguez
Mollie Duckworth
Shannon Dugan
Keith Ellison
Jennifer Walker Elrod
Harper Estes
Andrew Fabens
Bill Finnegan
Bryan Flannery
Joshua Flores
Murray Fogler
Marc Fuller
Rob Goodin
Robert N. Grisham II
Richard Guiltinan
Charlie Haag
Stancell Haigwood
John Russell Hardin
Meagan Hassan
Chris Heasley
Michael Heidler
Sean M. Higgins
Laura Hill
Amanda S. Hilty 
Jim Ho
Russell Hollenbeck
Hillary Holmes
Kenneth Hoyt
Joan Huffman
Wallace Jefferson
David Johansen
Zona Jones
Jameson Joyce
Jacob Kring
David Lassetter
Tom Leatherbury
Debra Lehrmann
Brenda Lenahan
Luis Leos
Brice Lipman
Ieuan List 
Mey Ly-Ortiz 
R.J. Malenfant
Peter Marshall
Levi McCathern II
Pamela Medina
Dale Mellencamp
Todd Mensing
David Miller
Rodney R. Miller
Regina Montoya
Eric Moyé
Andrew Murr
Tim Newsom
Kurt Nondorf
Ethan Nutter
Robin O'Neil
Yvette Ostolaza
Matt Pacey
Sarah Patel Pacheco
Scott Parel
Danielle Patterson
Ken Paxton
Kelley Peacock
Eric T. Penner
Kyle Poelker
Chris Popov
Laura Prather
Gregory Pryor
Shirley Redwine
Aiesha Redmond
R. Douglas Rees
Justin Reinus
Samuel Rettew
Aaron Rigby
Justine Robinson
Ian Roffman
Kristen Rohr
James Ruiz
Dylan B. Russell
Russell Ryan
R.K. Sandill
Steven Sanfelippo
Valeria Sartorio
Neil Sawhney
Harrison Scheer
Karen Gren Scholer
Jonathan C. Scott
Tali Sealman
B. Jack Shepherd
Laura Sizemore
Ryan W. Smith
Britta Stanton
Harrison Steakley
Johnathan Stone
Gary Swaim
Laura Tamez
Matthew Turner
Rahul Vashi
Donald Verrilli Jr.
Brett Wagner
Darrin Walker
Hannah Walsh
Paul Watler
Kyle Watson
Alex Whitman
Cory T. Wilson
Randy Wilson
Travis Wofford
Eric B. Wolff
Thomas C. Wright
Angela Zambrano
Mingda Zhao

Firms in the News

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Alexander Dubose Jefferson
Allen & Overy
Anderson & Riddle
Ares
Autotalks
AZA
Azek
Azelis
Bair Hilty
Baker Botts
Beard Energy
BMW
Cozen O'Connor
Cunningham Swaim
Delta
DHLF
Dohery Wagner
Ducommun 
Fogler Brar O’Neil
Gibson Dunn
Greenberg Traurig
Gupta Wessler
Haynes Boone
Hedrick Kring
Hess Midstream
Holland & Knight
Hoover Slovacek
Hyatt
Jackson Walker
Kinder Morgan
Kirkland
Lancium
Latham
Lewis Brisbois
LG Chem
Lynch, Chappell & Alsup
Lynn Pinker
Marriott
McCathern
MoloLamken
Morrison Jones
Munger Tolles & Olson
Newmont
NOG
Nutter McClennen & Fish
Penn Law Firm
Perkins Coie
Reed Smith
Rice University
Schlumberger
Shearman & Sterling
Sidley
Sunnova
TADC
TEX-ABOTA
Texas Fueling Services
TLR
Toyota
Trafigura Trading
TTLA
United Airlines
USA Lending
V&E
White & Case
Winstead
Winston & Strawn
Womble
Wright Close & Barger

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