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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.
Texas’s highest ranking judge said he supports UNT Dallas College of Law’s first class of graduating students taking the Texas bar exam next July – even if the American Bar Association refuses to give its stamp of approval.
M&A data shows that large Texas-based law firms hemorrhaged talent and long-time, local clients to elite national firms that set up new outposts in Dallas and Houston during the past six years. The same data also indicates that some of the legacy Texas firms - Akin Gump, Baker Botts, Bracewell and V&E - are increasingly exporting their expertise in oil and gas law to energy companies and private equity firms headquartered beyond the state’s borders. “The Texas legal market is maturing before our eyes,” says law firm consultant Ward Bower.
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.
New data compiled by Mergermarket and The Texas Lawbook’s Corporate Deal Tracker shows continued shifts in the legal marketplace. Premier M&A legal practices continue to get more of the top dollar transactional work. A smaller group of full service firms are capturing the mid-market deal activity. Wall Street law firms continue to steal away the largest Texas M&A. But the newest trend is that Texas-based lawyers are increasingly being hired by non-Texas companies to advise them on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. The Texas Lawbook has the exclusive report on the law firms that are doing the most M&A work so far in Texas.
The Houston-based partner at Andrews Kurth was the lead legal adviser in more securities offerings than any other lawyer in Texas during the first nine months of 2015. And he was busy representing clients in the M&A market, too. The Texas Lawbook highlights O'Leary's work this year and his insights on the current state of the market.
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.
DALLAS – Opening statements Thursday in the billion-dollar legal battle between three oil and gas giants – Energy Transfer Partners, Enterprise Products and Enbridge – at times resembled a nasty,
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s star witness against Mark Cuban testified Wednesday that he made it clear that the information he provided the Dallas Mavericks owner nine years ago
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