Q&A: Tana Pool
For Premium Subscribers TGS GC Tana Pool discusses her biggest challenges, what she seeks in outside counsel, diversity efforts and how the role of the GC has changed during her
Q&A: Hugo Testé
Hugo Teste is the general counsel and vice president of legal of Vopak. In this Q&A, Teste discusses the factors he uses when hiring outside counsel and specific items outside lawyers need to know about him.
Mary Flood: ‘Dean of the Houston Legal Scene’
For more than three decades, reporter and lawyer Mary Flood walked the halls of state and federal courthouses in Houston, chronicling the victories and defeats of the city’s colorful legal lions. She used her quick wit and persistence to win sources, from those who cleaned the building to the powerful who sat high on the bench. Her investigative reporting forced the Hermann Hospital board to provide more charitable care and offered leads to federal agents investigating Enron’s implosion. Flood went from college dropout to Harvard-educated lawyer. When she reinvented herself as a media consultant for law firms, she became a rainmaker.
Q&A: Tabitha Bailey
For Premium Subscribers Former Avantax GC Tabitha Bailey discusses the factors she uses in hiring outside counsel and specific items outside lawyers need to know about her. But she also
The Texas Lawbook Laterals Database
Texas Lawbook Premium Subscriber Content If you see lateral partner moves that occurred between 2012 and 2024 that are not included, please contact me at christi.trammell@texaslawbook.net. The data is sorted by
Movie Review: Clemente is a Fitting Tribute to Baseball’s ‘Great One’
When Roberto Clemente made it to “the show” in 1955, sportswriters and baseball card manufacturers took to calling him “Bob” — not out of informality but because they felt the need to deracinate his name and his appeal. Baseball was still decades away from the days when every big league roster became stocked with Latin players, and the Puerto Rican phenom posed some sort of threat to the established (white American) order. Those same writers would quote Clemente by denoting his thick accent — for example, “heet” instead of “hit.” If Clemente sometimes seemed to have a chip on his shoulder, it’s not difficult to see why. The man bluntly and accurately nicknamed The Great One is now the subject of an affectionate and thorough documentary, simply called Clemente, that premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in March. (Photo credit: Les Banos)
2024 Houston Art Car Parade
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Q&A: ‘Serving Clients in the Spotlight’ with an ‘Entertainment Litigator of the Year’
In this Q&A with distinguished entertainment litigator Mathew Rosengart, the Greenberg Traurig shareholder recalls clerking for Justice David Souter, identifies some of the unique aspects of representing high profile clients like Steven Spielberg and Sean Penn, and talks about his transition from federal prosecutor to Hollywood/commercial litigator.
The Myth of Work-Life Balance
In this essay, Winston & Strawn partner LeElle Slifer makes the argument for why work-life balance is a fallacy and provides an alternative perspective for working mothers to consider.
"The problem doesn’t lie with how much we have to do but rather with how we frame the problem itself," Slifer writes. "Time to dispense with that masochistic construct of 'balance.' Instead, we strive for excellence in our personal pursuits just as we do in our careers, expanding our ambitions rather than balancing them. I want to be as good of a wife and mother as I am a lawyer, so life gets slotted in right alongside work."
Q&A: Chasity Henry of Jacobs
For Premium Subscribers Chasity Henry says a “funny thing happened” on her way to becoming a litigation partner. She discovered that she “was much more interested in the inner workings
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Roman J. Israel, Esq — An Occasional Series on Movies, TV and Other Stories About Lawyers and the Law
The title character of Roman J. Israel, Esq. is a sort of walking anachronism, a man out of time in more ways than one. A civil rights lawyer who never entered the modern era, he rarely leaves his cluttered Los Angeles office, preferring to let his much smoother partner operate as the firm’s public face. His boxy suits and unkempt hair suggest a man who doesn’t care a lot about what others think. Then his partner dies suddenly, leaving his cases to a well-coiffed (and white) pragmatist. Roman decides he might just want a piece of the pie. And he’s willing to make some very bad decisions to get it.
EQT Brings Equitrans Back into Fold for $5.5B in Stock
Kirkland advised EQT and Latham assisted Equitrans on the combination, which would create a top vertically integrated natural gas business in the Appalachian region with an initial enterprise value of more than $35 billion.