SCOTX Provides Clearer Guidance for Workplace Injury Cases
The Supreme Court of Texas issued a potentially precedent-setting decision that may have significant future implications for both workers at Texas businesses and the employers.
ALJ Dismisses SEC Allegations Against Houston Investment Firm
An administrative law judge for the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission has exonerated Houston-based Robare Group and two of its executives of all charges the agency brought against them last September.
Skadden Scores $69M Judgment Morning of Trial for JP Morgan
The $69 million final judgment, secured Tuesday, was for JPMorgan Chase Bank. The win was the end – or at the very least, a significant jump toward the finish line – of a 13-year legal battle with Plano-based DataTreasury Corp.
GT Scores Take-Nothing Defense, Attorneys’ Fees in Spy Pen Case
Can a ballpoint pen change the fate in your case? Two Dallas Greenberg Traurig lawyers proved to a local jury last week that it can indeed – especially if the pen is really a hidden camera.
Despite Low Oil Prices, Energy Transactional Lawyers Continue to Make it Rain in Texas with $18 Billion Worth of Deals – Updated
The oil patch may be looking a little dry, but Texas transactional lawyers are still being kept busy by their energy clients.
Bell Nunnally Brings Question of First Impression to Fifth Circuit – Updated
It’s a predicament many white-collar and other criminal lawyers will never have to face, but certainly would want guidance on if, God forbid, it ever happens: What if the trial court fails to record your client’s plea hearing, and how harmless is that error? As it stands right now, it either could be like striking gold for the lawyer handling the appeal or it would make no difference, but no one knows which one it would be. Appellate associate Jason Steed of Bell Nunnally is seeking to solve the mystery. The Texas Lawbook has the scoop.
TX Foster Care Reform Trial Concludes
A district judge heard closing arguments Thursday in Dallas from lawyers for the State of Texas and advocacy group Children’s Rights on how she should provide federal oversight to reform Texas’s long-term foster care system. Thursday morning’s closings were the denouement of a two-week bench trial that occurred in December after lawyers from Children’s Rights in New York, Yetter Coleman in Houston and Haynes and Boone in Dallas partnered up to bring a class-action lawsuit against the State of Texas to advocate for the more than 12,000 foster children in the state’s long-term foster care system.
SMU, UT and UH Lead in Law Graduate Job Placements
Law firms are hiring more Texas law school graduates than they did at the end of the Great Recession five years ago, but new statistics suggest that the legal industry’s economic recovery has gone flat or possibly even slowed during the past two years.
Jackson Walker Scores $23.5 Million Settlement in DOJ Health Care Fraud Case
Josh Romero, a partner in Jackson Walker’s Austin office, said the case is significant because it is aligned with the national surge in False Claims Act litigation.
Greenberg Traurig Prevails in $6.4 Million Health Care Billing Technology Case
A Dallas judge on Wednesday ordered two local companies and its owner to pay Austin-based Growtheorem $6.4 million for wrongfully cutting the consulting company out of a deal that caused it to lose out on commissions it claimed the defendants had promised it.