The Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel announced Monday that it is officially partnering with The Texas Lawbook for the annual Best Corporate Counsel Awards of 2017. Each year, the ACC-DFW Chapter honors corporate in-house lawyers for their exceptional work and successes during the previous year.
“By teaming with The Texas Lawbook, we are taking the event to an all new level,” says ACC-DFW 1st Vice President David Kilpatrick, who is GC at EnvironX Solutions. Read for full details.
Patent Lit is AT&T Legal Team’s Specialty
Facing a mountain of patent infringement lawsuits, AT&T GC David McAtee created a specialized five lawyer group within the corporate legal department focusing exclusively on patent infringement litigation. The mission was twofold: enhance the ability to defend the company and reduce the attractiveness of AT&T as a target of frivolous lawsuits. The team is witnessing results, including overcoming the hesitancy of outside counsel to work so closely with the in-house team.
“An outside lawyer who doesn’t welcome this won’t remain our outside lawyer for very long,” says AT&T Assc. GC Neal Berinhout.
Patent Lit is AT&T Legal Team’s Specialty
Facing a mountain of patent infringement lawsuits, AT&T GC David McAtee created a specialized five lawyer group within the corporate legal department focusing exclusively on patent infringement litigation. The mission was twofold: enhance the ability to defend the company and reduce the attractiveness of AT&T as a target of frivolous lawsuits. The team is witnessing results, including overcoming the hesitancy of outside counsel to work so closely with the in-house team.
“An outside lawyer who doesn’t welcome this won’t remain our outside lawyer for very long,” says AT&T Assc. GC Neal Berinhout.
Andrews Kurth Helps Austin’s Owlchemy Labs Meet Google ‘IRL’
Austin-based video game developer Owlchemy Labs this week scored the gold mine that any tech startup looking for an exit would hope to score: an acquisition by Google, the mother of all tech giants. The score occurred not in one of the company’s state-of-the art games, but what gamers call “IRL” – “In Real Life.”
Mommy Helped Finance This Building
“Debt offerings of public securities happen when the market is favorable. As a result, her schedule was heavy and hard to predict. I had to learn to be an independent person and to do things on my own.”
My Mother Was My First Law School Teacher
“Playing a trivia game consisting of evidence objections is probably not a common thing to do with a 9- and 11-year-old. But for my sister and me, who were growing up just as my mother was growing into a career as a civil trial lawyer, that is one of the ways we would spend our time during our car trips. Whether to Cedar Creek Lake to visit my grandparents or running errands around town, we were talking law.”
Lessons from Mom
“In our house growing up, productive was the mantra, as in: ‘Everyone must be productive and contribute.’ As a single mom, this was as much about necessity as it was about principle: if you didn’t cook dinner when it was your turn, there was no dinner.”
Learning the Law from My Mom
“I prosecuted Goldilocks and prevailed. The jury found Goldilocks guilty; her punishment was to fix baby bear’s chair, make porridge for the bears, and six months of no TV.”
Following in Her Footsteps
The love of law is a bit of a family tradition. Her father had wanted to be a lawyer, but circumstances kept him from pursuing that dream. So when my mother headed to Baylor as an undergraduate, he kept encouraging her to at least give law school a try.
