The Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook are pleased to announce the final three categories for the 2021 Houston Corporate Counsel Awards and the recipients for each of those honors. Those categories are Rookie of the Year, Business Litigation of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Award. In-depth profiles of the finalists and winners will be published over the next month.
Q&A with Osler McCarthy about Osler, the Texas Supreme Court and the Future of The Texas Lawbook
Osler McCarthy joined The Texas Lawbook last week as the publication’s managing editor and head of appellate law coverage. The Lawbook sat down with McCarthy last week for a Q&A about his decisions to be a journalist and lawyer, including his thoughts about two decades as the Texas Supreme Court’s staff attorney for public information and now his decision to return to journalism.
Houston Corporate Counsel Awards Finalists for Achievements in D&I and Pro Bono and Public Service Revealed
Each year, the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook honor corporate in-house counsel who are true role models for improving the legal profession from the inside and out. There are three finalists for the 2021 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for Achievement in Diversity and Inclusion and one finalist for Achievement in Pro Bono and Public Service.
Osler McCarthy Joins Texas Lawbook Team
For the past two decades, Osler McCarthy has been a trusted voice of appellate law in Texas – informing lawyers, judges, members of the news media and the public on the cases being decided by the nine justices who sit on the Supreme Court of Texas. This week, Osler – educated as a lawyer and trained as a journalist – joins The Texas Lawbook fulltime as managing editor and head of the publication’s appellate law coverage.
Rapper Travis Scott Hires Dan Petrocelli in Astroworld Litigation
Prominent Los Angeles trial lawyer Daniel Petrocelli sent an electronic letter late last Wednesday to lawyers for the plaintiffs in the Astroworld Festival tragedy announcing that he now represents rapper Travis Scott and offering to pay the funeral costs of those who died at the Nov. 5 concert in Houston.
“Your client’s offer is declined,” Corpus Christi attorney Bob Hilliard, who represents the family of 9-year-old Ezra Blount, who died at the concert, said in an email response to Petrocelli.
Live Nation Hires Susman Godfrey; Lawyers Predict Astroworld Defendants’ Legal Strategies
Three weeks after 10 people died and hundreds of others were injured at the Astroworld Festival tragedy, the number of lawsuits, plaintiffs and named defendants continues to mount. The demand for damages now tops $3 billion and the lawyer headcount involved in the litigation exceeds six dozen, including some of the most prominent and powerful law firms in Texas. But there are big questions: about insurance coverage, possible bankruptcy and questionable defenses.
TX GC Forum Honors Lawyers Dawud Crooms, Farah Bhayani, Rishi Varma, Robert Bell and Others with Magna Stella Awards
The Texas General Counsel Forum honored seven top in-house counsel and the corporate legal departments at CenterPoint Energy and Toyota Motor North America on Thursday night with the 2021 Magna Stella Awards. Lone Star Circle of Care GC Tillery Stout received the award for GC of the Year for a Non-Profit. And legal leaders at Diamondback Energy, Enterprise Products, G6 Hospitality, SAExploration and Intercontinental Terminals were honored for their accomplishments.
The Texas Lawbook attended the Texas Forum annual meeting in Austin and has these exclusive details.
Updated — Expert to TX GCs on Cyber Attacks: ‘Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail’
General counsel at Texas companies are critical for preparing corporate executives and board members about cyberattacks and ransomware demands, Erin Nealy Cox, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, told members of the Texas General Counsel Forum Thursday.
Astroworld Lawsuits Now Number 100+ with 250 Alleged Victims
The number of lawsuits filed in the wake of the Nov. 5th Astroworld tragedy that killed 10 people has surpassed 100, including the first wrongful death case to be officially filed. The complaints – all filed in Harris County District Court – include about 250 plaintiffs and a dozen defendants, including Live Nation, rapper Travis Scott, the operator of NRG Stadium and some newly identified defendants.
What Do a Bank and Four Energy Companies Have in Common? Their Top Lawyers are Finalists for Houston GC of the Year
The Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook are pleased to announce finalists for the 2021 Houston Corporate Counsel Awards who have done some amazing legal work and demonstrated extraordinary leadership during some definitely unordinary times. Today, we reveal General Counsel of the Year finalists.