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Earlier this summer, an ABA committee recommended that the ABA not grant UNT provisional accreditation after determining that the school admits too many students with weak grades and low LSAT scores and that the program has a questionable financial plan, among other factors.
Oil and gas companies - many of them financially distressed - rushed to the capital markets during the first six months of this year. New data compiled by The Texas Lawbook’s Corporate Deal Tracker and Bloomberg News shows that Texas and Oklahoma companies raised an astounding $127 billion through 179 securities and debt offerings. Then suddenly, it all stopped. The number of debt offerings since July 1 plummeted. This artcle explains why and the impact it will have.
Mollie Duckworth has been a partner at Baker Botts for only 19 months, but has led seven separate securities offerings that raised $3.8 billion during the first seven months of 2015, which was nearly twice as many offerings as any other lawyer in Texas, according to The Texas Lawbook’s Corporate Deal Tracker. Duckworth talks trends and what she sees for the rest of the year.
No corporate transactional lawyers have been busier in 2015 than Mollie Duckworth and John Goodgame. No Texas law firm came close to advising in more deal making during the first seven months of 2015 than Vinson & Elkins, though Baker Botts, Andrews Kurth and Latham are battling for second place. Seven months into 2015, The Texas Lawbook’s Corporate Deal Tracker leaderboard shows which Texas lawyers are doing the most business mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and securities offerings. We have all the details.
The legal needs of the Hispanic business community in North Texas are going unmet by lawyers because DFW business law firms employ very few Spanish-speaking attorneys, according to a new study, leaders of the Chamber of Commerce and a growing number of corporate general counsel.
The legal needs of the Hispanic business community in North Texas are going unmet by lawyers because DFW business law firms employ very few Spanish-speaking attorneys, according to a new study, leaders of the Chamber of Commerce and a growing number of corporate general counsel.
Tort reform is causing a detrimental effect on injured Texas' citizens and the trial lawyers who represent them. Laws that capped damages in personal injury and medical malpractice verdicts are causing lawyers to reject many legitimate cases because the expenses now exceed the damages lawyers could recover for clients, according to two studies and a panel of legal experts presented at the ABA meeting in Dallas this past week.
SMU senior leaders have informed Attanasio that his contract, which expires in May, will not be renewed and that the university is taking immediate steps to find a successor, The Texas Lawbook has learned. The decision prompted 56 prominent alumni to sign a letter to Turner supporting Attanasio and asking the university to reconsider. A member of the Dedman Law School executive board has resigned and two others have said they are considering resigning because they were not informed by Ludden or Turner about the move and think it is the wrong decision.
Long-time Houston trial lawyer is leader in pharmaceutical and medical device litigation.
A Thompson & Knight secretary, the Facebook "like" button and hard work by Dallas IP lawyers leads to USPTO decision.
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