HBA Announces Harris County Bench Bar Pro Bono Awards
V&E, Gibbs & Bruns and Exxon Mobil were among the five winners.
Munsch Hardt Promotes Two to Shareholder in Dallas
Phillip Geheb and Aryn Self focus their practices on real estate transactions.
Dykema Cox Smith Names Christopher Kratovil Dallas Office Managing Member
Kratovil, an appellate attorney, succeeds Bill Finkelstein and will lead a 40-lawyer office.
Bracewell Names Jarvis Hollingsworth to Management Committee
Hollingsworth, a partner in Houston, is head of the firm’s public entities practice.
Dykema Cox Smith Senior Counsel Mary Schaerdel Dietz Receives State Bar’s “Standing Ovation Award”
Dietz was one of nine volunteer lawyers recognized by the staff of TexasBarCLE for her contributions in 2015 to the State Bar’s continuing legal education efforts.
Dykema Cox Smith Senior Counsel Mary Schaerdel Dietz Receives State Bar's "Standing Ovation Award"
Dietz was one of nine volunteer lawyers recognized by the staff of TexasBarCLE for her contributions in 2015 to the State Bar’s continuing legal education efforts.
South Texas College of Law Appoints Five New Board Members
Judge Robert Eckels, Randy Howry, Joseph Lopez, Andrew Sommerman and Ruthie Nelson White have been appointed for the 2016-2017 academic year.
Physician Investments – Make it Rain or Wear a Ball and Chain?
RXpress, a Fort Worth compounding pharmacy facing federal scrutiny, is a cautionary tale of the intersection of physician investment opportunities, the deterioration of relationships and the significant danger when prudent structuring is ignored or deficient.
Chesapeake and Total Settle Barnett Shale Royalty Disputes for $52.5 million
Oklahoma-based Chesapeake Energy and Total E&P USA agreed Monday that they will pay $52.5 million to 13,000 people who claimed their royalties have been underpaid for leases in the Barnett Shale. The lawsuits, filed in 2014 and 2015, by residents in Johnson County, Tarrant County and Dallas County accuse Chesapeake and Total of failing to pay royalties the companies agreed to in their contracts.
Updated: Texas Lawbook Exclusive: Financial Data shows Seismic Shift Continues in Texas Legal Market
Nearly half of the 35 largest revenue-generating law firms operating in Texas are based outside the state. National law firms earned more than $1 billion in revenues from their Texas operations in 2015 - a double digit increase from 2014. Revenues for Texas-based firms increased by less than one-tenth of one percent last year. Texas Lawbook data shows that elite, wealthy corporate law firms - those based in Texas and beyond - are achieving enormous financial success by stealing the best lawyers and the highest paying business clients away from indigenous Texas firms. The bottom line: the Texas legal market is turmoil and witnessing a shift that is radically changing the practice of corporate law in the state forever.
Texas Lawbook Exclusive: Law, Truth and Sam Wyly – The World of Bankruptcy according to Judge Barbara Houser
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Barbara Houser released her much anticipated decision last week in the billion-dollar bankruptcy case of Sam Wyly and his sister-in-law Dee. Legal experts say the legal opinion, which is 459-pages long, includes 181,504 words and 1,682 footnotes, masterfully tells the highly complex story of the Wyly brothers and the web of offshore accounts they created in the Isle of Man two decades ago. “This opinion shows that Judge Houser is a brilliant thinker and an excellent writer,” says Dallas bankruptcy lawyer Sid Scheinberg.
Texas Lawbook Exclusive: Law, Truth and Sam Wyly – The World of Bankruptcy according to Judge Barbara Houser
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Barbara Houser released her much anticipated decision last week in the billion-dollar bankruptcy case of Sam Wyly and his sister-in-law Dee. Legal experts say the legal opinion, which is 459-pages long, includes 181,504 words and 1,682 footnotes, masterfully tells the highly complex story of the Wyly brothers and the web of offshore accounts they created in the Isle of Man two decades ago. “This opinion shows that Judge Houser is a brilliant thinker and an excellent writer,” says Dallas bankruptcy lawyer Sid Scheinberg.