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Natalie Posgate

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

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.

UPDATE: Jury Finds NFL Breached Contract, Awards Only $76,000

An eight-person jury heard a preview of the measures that a group of football fans took to get to the 2011 Super Bowl in Dallas, such as two diehard Green Bay Packers fans from Madison, Wisconsin, only to have their Super Bowl experience ruined by the infamous seat fiasco at the Cowboys Stadium. “[Their trek] will remind you of Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” said Michael Avenatti, the lead attorney for seven disgruntled ticketholders who are finally getting their day in court against the National Football League in a federal trial that began Monday in Dallas. “It was needless to say, an odyssey.” Check here for updates throughout the trial from The Texas Lawbook.

Natalie Posgate

UPDATED – Texas Supremes: Balancing the Bundle of Rights that Comprise a Mineral Estate Creates a “Conundrum”

In a highly watched oil and gas case, the state's highest court issued a mixed decision in a case in which royalty owners allege self-dealing by executive mineral right-holders who negotiate drilling agreements. Experts say the ruling will likely lead to greater scrutiny by trial courts. The plaintiff's lawyer says his client is disappointed that oil and gas operators will not be held responsible in these kind of mineral rights disputes.

Natalie Posgate

Dallas Super Bowl Ticket Dispute Trial Begins

Eight jurors were selected Monday afternoon for a federal trial involving the infamous 2011 Super Bowl seat fiasco at the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas. The Texas Lawbook is in the courtroom and will have updated details throughout the trial.

Natalie Posgate

Moncrief Oil Drops $1.37 Billion Case in Middle of Trial – Updated

A decade-long $1.37 billion legal battle between Moncrief Oil and Russia-based OAO Gazprom, the world’s largest extractor of natural gas, came to an abrupt end Monday when the Fort Worth oil company dismissed its trade secrets claims in the middle of a month longtrial. Gazprom's lawyers at Baker Botts say they discovered that a Moncrief executive had fabricated a key document in the case.

Natalie Posgate

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