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‘God of the Earth Realm’ Loses Intergalactic Trade Dispute, Again - Lawyer Edward Moses, Jr., self-described monarch and deity of the “Atakapa Indian de Creole Nation” and “Christian Emperor of New Orleans,” tried for a second time to get the judges of the Fifth Circuit to take up his case. For some reason, the appellate court felt that Moses’ lawsuit against 150 world leaders wasn’t supported by law or facts. March 5, 2021Mark Curriden
Houston Appeals Court Affirms $3M Judgment in Drilling Contract Dispute - A state appeals court this week upheld a $3 million-plus trial court judgment in an oil and gas contract case. The appeal involved a debate over the correct language for standard of care in joint operating agreements, and the non-prevailing side says the debate isn't over. Litigation writer Natalie Posgate has the details. March 5, 2021Natalie Posgate
Chevron To Take Noble Midstream Private for $1.3B - California-headquartered Chevron Corporation announced Friday that it is acquiring all the stock it doesn't already own in Noble Midstream Partners. Latham & Watkins and Baker Botts advised on the deal. The Texas Lawbook has the names of the lawyers involved. March 5, 2021Allen Pusey
CDT Roundup: 18 Deals; 12 Firms; 138 Lawyers; $8.1B - Exhibition baseball began this past week. For those who pay attention to such things, it's a sign of life and hope. Not only did deal makers continue to show signs of both, the deals included at least one that involved...baseball. Or at least someone once involved with baseball. The CDT Roundup has that and last week's transactions. March 4, 2021Allen Pusey
Judge Albright Adjourns from Trial to Chat Courtroom Practices, IP Trends - Even as U.S. District Judge Alan Albright was in the middle of one of the most closely-watched patent infringement trials of the year, he gave The Texas Lawbook and the IP community some of his time to sit in the hot seat and discuss patterns and trends unfolding in and out of his courtroom. March 4, 2021Natalie Posgate

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Texas Bar Members Approve Law Firm Trade Names - Vinson & Elkins and Baker Botts are highly unlikely to change their firm names to “Bad Ass Lawyers” or “Energy M&A Deals are Us,” but four out of five Texas lawyers who voted in a State Bar of Texas referendum over the past few weeks think they should be able to do so if they want. March 5, 2021Mark Curriden

Expert Voices

Jim Rolfe: Remembering a Great Dallas Trial Lawyer - This story is about my friend and a mentor Jim Rolfe who died Feb. 26, 2021. Jim was larger than life and one of the best trial lawyers ever produced in Texas. March 1, 2021Mike Lynn

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Michaels Acquired by Apollo Global in $5B Take-Private Deal
Alamo Drafthouse Files for Bankruptcy
Appeals Court Reverses $1.2M Libel Judgment that Stemmed from a Yelp Review
Waco Jury: Intel Infringed on VLSI’s Patents, Awards $2.175B
‘It’s an Outrageous Demand’: VLSI and Intel Talk Money and Credibility as Trial Closes
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Appellate

  • Texas Supreme Court: Is Facebook Immune from Claims It ‘Failed to Warn’ Teen Rape Victims?
  • Houston Chronicle: SCOTX to Decide ERCOT’s Sovereign Immunity
  • SCOTX Hears SLAPP Award Dispute in Caged Tiger Case

Bankruptcy

  • Brazos Electric Coop Files for Bankruptcy
  • District Judge Considers Taking Adversary Bankruptcy Case Amid Threats of Calling the Feds
  • Jackson Walker & Kirkland Strike Again With New 9-Figure Chapter 11 Filing

Commercial Litigation

  • Houston Chronicle: Texas AG Sues Griddy
  • Electrolit v. Gatorlyte Trademark Infringement Fight in South Texas Flares Up Again
  • Akin Gump Obtains Employment Win for Cattle Semen Provider

Corp. Deal Tracker/M&A

  • Houston-based RES Involved in Northwest Dam Removal Project
  • DBJ: Dallas Fintech Going Public at Valuation of Nearly $5B
  • Shearman, Weil Advise on $1.15B SPAC Deal to Take Ardagh Metal Public

GCs/Corp. Legal Depts.

  • PepsiCo’s Leanne Oliver – 2020 DFW Corporate Counsel’s Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2020 DFW General Counsel of the Year Finalists
  • Legal Departments: Doing More with Less

White-Collar/Regulatory

  • State Bar Disciplinary Actions
  • Key Considerations for a Texas Privacy Law
  • Steve Cox Resigns as EDTX U.S. Attorney, First Asst. Takes Over

Firm Management

  • Kirkland & Ellis Bets on the Texas Trifecta
  • Polsinelli Dallas MP Brian Bullard, One Year on the Job
  • Citi: Texas-Based Firms See 2020 Revenues Down, Profits Up

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  • Remembering Clyde Siebman, ‘The Guiding Spirit Behind the EDTX Bench Bar Conference’ - When the biggest corporations in the world – Toyota, Wal-Mart, Phillip Morris, Boeing and Huawei – needed a lawyer in East Texas, they called Sherman’s Clyde Siebman. So did single moms, the elderly and veterans. Siebman, a zealous advocate for the right to trial by jury, died Friday. He was 62. March 6, 2021Mark Curriden

GCs, Lawyers & Firms

  • Dykema Taps Dallas Leader for National Recruiting Role - Chris Kratovil dishes about Dykema's growth plans, his favorite interview question and a decision he made in a "fit of clinical insanity."
  • Kirkland Builds on Strength, Adds Former Baker Botts Debt Finance Partner
  • Houston Energy Transactions Partner Leaves Hogan Lovells for Womble
  • Former DOJ Environmental Lawyer Rejoins Hicks Thomas
  • Shearman Signs Houston Capital Markets Partner from Jones Day
  • Former Head of NRF’s U.S. O&G Practice Joins Baker Botts
  • Bobby Lee Cook: The Death of the ‘Best There Has Ever Been’
  • Baker Botts Makes Restructuring, Environmental Adds
  • Simpson Thacher Picks Up Deal Partner from V&E
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AIM2
Alamo Drafthouse
Alston & Bird
Apex
Apollo 
Arclight Capital
Ardagh
ATI Physical Therapy
Atlas Technical Consultants
AZA
Baker Botts
Bluescape
Bracewell
Brazos Electric
Caldwell Cassady & Curry
Castex Energy
Chevron
Cooley
Comstock Resources
Cowles and Thompson
Cravath
Dykema
Enovix
Evergy
Eversheds Sutherland
Foley
Forshey Prostok
Fortress Value Acquisition
Gibson Dunn
Gores V
Great Western Petroleum
Haynes and Boone
Hicks Thomas
Hogan Lovells
Howard Energy
Hunton AK
Intel
Intello
Irell & Manella
Jackson Walker
Joby Aviation
Jones Day
Kalera
Kinder Morgan
King & Spalding
Kirkland
Laboratorios Pisa
Latham
Locke Lord
Loeb & Loeb 
McGinnis Lochridge
Michaels
MPLX
Munck Wilson 
NGPL
Noble Midstream
NorTex Midstream
North Star Investment
Norton Rose Fulbright
Okin Adams
PepsiCo
Phillips Murrah
Polsinelli
Reinvent Technology 
RES
Rogers Silicon Valley
Ropes & Gray
SailPoint Technologies
Shearman & Sterling
Sidley
Simpson Thacher
SKV
SparkCognition
Stanmore Partners
Tailwater Capital
TK
Toyota
Transwestern
V&E
Vindara
VLSI
Weil
WilmerHale
Winston & Strawn
Womble

Lawyers in the News

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Chris Abbinante
Alan Albright
Micaela Alvarez
Will Anderson
Shubi Arora
Jason Bloom
Sam Bragg
James Brown
Brian Bullard
Sam Burley
Brad Caldwell
Matt Cavenaugh
Tim Cheatham
Kelly Chen
Morgan Chu
Kevin Crews
Christopher Cross
Joshua Davidson
Alain Dermarkar
Stuart Kyle Duncan
Tim Durst
Hans Dyke
John Furlow
Ward Goolsby
Jim Griffin
David Hammerman
Troy L. Harder
Jon Henderson
Jason Hutt
Jack Jacobsen
Sam Jarvis
Wes Jones
Chris Knight
Chris Kratovil
Kyle Krpata
Taylor Landry
Bill Lee
Doug Lionberger
Derek Lipscombe
Don Lonczak
Mike Lynn
Ryan Maierson
Benjamin J. Martin
Ed McHorse
Todd Mensing
David Miller
Ken Molberg
Edward Moses, Jr.
Cassandra Mott
Joseph Mueller
Land Murphy
Clare O'Brien
Matthew Okin
Mike O'Leary
Leanne Oliver
Holland O'Neil
Kyle Park
Ryan Paulsen
Julia Pendery
Benjamin Potter
Alan Rafte
Doug Rayburn
Kevin Richardson
Joshua Robichaud
Jane Robinson
Jim Rolfe
Sydney Scott
Bill Siegel
Leslie Southwick
Justin Stolte
Lou Strubeck
Stephen Szalkowski
Paul Tanck
Josh Teahen
Enoch Varner
Jacques Wiener
Staci Williams
Mike Wilson
Wei Xu
Kent Zimmermann

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