Texas Tech School of Law Advocacy Team Wins National Moot Court Competition
It is the law school’s fourth victory in school history at this tournament and third in the last six years.
Andrews Kurth Selects Houston Partner for 2016 Class of LCLD Fellows
Cindy Lin focuses her corporate and securities practice on mergers and acquisitions, private placements, venture capital and private equity investments.
EDTX Bar Association Announces 2016 Officers and Directors
The EDTX Bar is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
Andrews Kurth Houston Partner Selected as U.S. Magistrate Judge
The firm expects Dena Palermo will begin her new job in March.
Bracewell Elects Houston Partner to Management Committee
Phillip Sampson will serve a three-year term on the firm's management committee.
Endorsements, Poll Results for TX Judicial Candidates Revealed
A handful of non-partisan lawyer organizations across the state have endorsed the candidates they deem most qualified and their choices are a mixture of incumbents and challengers, Republicans and Democrats.
Texas Business Bankruptcies Outlook: ‘The Carnage is Going to be Terrible’
Texas business bankruptcies jumped significantly in 2015, but lawyers and financial experts say last year’s increase is nothing compared to the tidal wave of corporate failures headed this way. Forty-eight oil and gas service companies and exploration and production companies filed for bankruptcy during the past 13 months, according to a report by Haynes and Boone. Eighteen prominent bankruptcy experts interviewed by The Texas Lawbook say they expect the number of oil and gas companies in Texas that file for bankruptcy in 2016 to double and that those bankruptcies will cause a domino effect that will spread to other business sectors. The Texas Lawbook provides an in-depth analysis.
DMN: Texas Chief Justice Writes about Justice Scalia’s Legacy
Justice Scalia believed that words matter. Words of the Constitution matter. The framers chose them, the Congress endorsed them, and the states ratified them. They were discussed and debated in communities and through the media across the country. Those words, we decided, are what the government should be. Words matter.