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Natalie Posgate

Natalie Posgate covers pro bono work, public service and diversity within the Texas legal community.

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Natalie Posgate

Natalie Posgate covers pro bono work, public service and diversity within the Texas legal community.

Natalie joined The Texas Lawbook in 2012 as a founding staff member shortly after receiving her Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Southern Methodist University. While at SMU, Natalie and SMU-classmate-turned-Lawbook-colleague Brooks Igo published “Sweeping Rape Under the Rug,” an award-winning investigative piece about SMU’s handling of on-campus sexual assaults. Later that year, Natalie and Brooks published a follow-up piece that broke the news of the first grand jury indictment in decades of an SMU student involving an alleged on-campus sexual assault. She began her reporting career in college as an intern for The Dallas Morning News’ breaking news desk, and before that, interned for Texas Highways magazine.

In the early days of The Lawbook, Natalie served as a general assignment reporter and covered everything from lawsuits to Texas law schools to mergers and acquisitions to legal industry trends. Before launching The Lawbook’s pro bono, public service and diversity beat, Natalie served as senior litigation writer. She has covered numerous high-profile trials gavel-to-gavel, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s 2013 insider trading case against Dallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank star Mark Cuban and a 2018 products liability trial that rendered a $242 million jury verdict against Toyota Motor Corp.

In 2021, Natalie profiled former East Texas federal prosecutor Joshua Russ, who went on the record for the first time with Posgate about resigning and filing a whistleblower complaint against the Department of Justice for its alleged political interference in a civil case Russ was leading against Walmart for its role in the opioid crisis. The piece is cited in a chapter of “Servants of the Damned,” a book released in September 2022 by New York Times journalist and bestselling author David Enrich.

Through The Lawbook’s content partnerships, Natalie’s work has regularly reappeared in the Houston Chronicle, Dallas Business Journal and The Dallas Morning News.

Natalie lives in East Dallas with her husband David and German Shorthaired Pointer rescue Stella. She is an avid runner, reader, hiker and coffee drinker.

AMR Legal Fees in Bankruptcy Exceed $170 Million

With a few months of bankruptcy proceedings still to go, AMR’s legal fees continue to mount, topping more than $170 million so far.

February 17, 2013 Natalie Posgate

AMR Lawyers: Bankruptcy and Merger Deal “Extraordinarily Unique, Complex” and Expensive

American Airlines GC Gary Kennedy and his lead outside counsel, Thomas Roberts and Glenn West of Weil, provide an exclusive insight into how the AMR and US Airways deal came together. “It is an intense deal with lots of moving parts,” says West.

February 17, 2013 Natalie Posgate

Kinder Morgan Acquires Copano for $5 Billion – Update

Lots of lawyers from Weil, Bracewell, V&E and Jones Day are involved in the transaction between the two Houston energy companies.

January 30, 2013 Natalie Posgate

Search for Next SMU Law Dean Could be Complicated

The search for a new law school dean may prove a bigger challenge than what meets the eye. Even those in support of the university’s recent decisions have differing visions of the law school’s future.

January 27, 2013 Natalie Posgate

SMU Business School Dean to Lead Search for New Law School Dean

Provost Paul Ludden appointed Albert W. Niemi to lead the search committee to replace Dedman Law Dean John Attanasio. Other search committee members include law school faculty, law students, members of the Board of Trustees, law school executive board members and law school alumni.

January 23, 2013 Natalie Posgate

Promotions in Texas Decrease in 2013

The 8-10 year formula for associates making partner may no longer exist, according to 2013 promotion data.

January 15, 2013 Natalie Posgate

Texas Lawyers: The Growing Source for Minority College Scholarships

During the past decade, more than 500 Texas high school students – a large majority of whom are Hispanic, African-American and Asian – have gone to college thanks to scholarships funded by individual lawyers, law firms and legal organizations in the state. Texas lawyers have quietly awarded more than $1.6 million in financial aid to low-income students or students of color. This article spotlights the lawyers and firms who give money and more.

January 8, 2013 Natalie Posgate

Tis’ the Season to be Giving

The Texas Lawbook put together some of the law firms and individual attorneys who stood out when it came to giving back. This is by no means a definitive list, as there are so many doing so much for those in need. But this article puts a little spotlight on some efforts that have come to our recent attention.

December 28, 2012 Natalie Posgate

Q&A with Authors on ABA’s New Appellate Practice Guide

Polsinelli shareholder partner Leane Medford and Robert Dubose, a partner with Alexander, Dubose, discuss their role in researching and writing portions of a new book that examines and compares appellate court rules in Texas and across the US.

December 28, 2012 Natalie Posgate

Jones Day Leads $240 Million International Deal

The attorneys of Jones Day’s Dallas office play a big role in an international oil and gas deal.

December 20, 2012 Natalie Posgate

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