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Allen Pusey

Allen Pusey is a senior editor and writer at The Texas Lawbook.

Allen Pusey

Prominent legal and investigative journalist Allen Pusey is a senior editor and writer at The Texas Lawbook.

Prior to joining The Lawbook, Pusey was the editor and publisher of the ABA Journal, which is the nation’s largest circulation legal publication. Before his decade with the Journal, Pusey spent 26 years as a reporter and editor at The Dallas Morning News, where he was a special projects editor and covered the Supreme Court of the United States.

A former director at the Center for Public Integrity, Pusey brings extraordinary experience and knowledge of the legal industry to The Texas Lawbook. Our readers are now the beneficiaries of his amazing talent as a writer and editor.

You can reach Allen at allen.pusey@texaslawbook.net or 202.669.4398.

Carlyle-Diversified Energy Partnership Fuels $1.175B Deal for Anadarko Basin Assets

Diversified Energy Company and its finance partner Carlyle Global Credit announced a $1.175 billion purchase agreement for oil and gas assets in Oklahoma’s Anadarko Basin owned by Camino Natural Resources.

Diversified is advised by Citi and Truist on finance and Kirkland & Ellis as outside legal counsel. Carlyle was advised on legal matters by Paul Hastings and Latham & Watkins. Jefferies is lead financial advisor to Camino with RBC Richardson Barr as co-advisor. Camino outside legal counsel is Vinson & Elkins.

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Jones Walker Adds a Pair of Maritime Lawyers

Jones Walker has added two maritime lawyers to its Houston office.

The new laterals are Kelly Haas and Hayley Stancil, who worked together in the Houston office of Schouest, Bamdas, Soshea, BenMaier & Eastham.

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Chevron USA Wins Big at SCOTUS

The U.S. Supreme Court Friday decided that an environmental damages lawsuit in a Louisiana state court against oil and gas giant Chevron USA should rightly be removed to federal jurisdiction because of the company’s history as a vendor for petroleum products during World War II.

Chevron was represented by Paul Clement of Clement & Murphy. Plaquemines Parish was represented by Louisiana Solicitor General J. Benjamin Aguiñaga and Victor Marcello of Talbot, Carmouche & Marcello in Baton Rouge.

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Omar Samji Heads Back to Gibson Dunn

Omar Samji, the Houston-based lawyer whose career in power and renewables spans more than two decades and six law firms, has left Weil for Gibson Dunn, the firm is announcing today.

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Munsch Hardt Announces New Texas Office

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr formally announced Wednesday the firm’s expansion to Fort Worth with a seven-lawyer office to be housed in 5,787 square feet of scalable office space on Main Street.

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