Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
Election season at the State Bar of Texas ends today. The campaign has inspired a clash that has been full of sound and fury. The question is whether it actually means anything. As former bar president W. Frank Newton notes: “Some very smart people – lawyers who are very gifted – ought to know better than fool themselves into thinking that this is all terribly important.” Natalie Posgate has the story.
© 2018 The Texas Lawbook. By Mark Curriden (April 30) — Amid all the fuss and flurry of national corporate law firms opening new offices in Texas and spate of
A Swiss businessman may soon be filing a malpractice lawsuit against the federal public defenders who represented him in a criminal bankruptcy fraud case, a recent letter to a federal appeals court indicates. This is a man who was a fugitive after fleeing a federal contempt order, a pro se party several times in litigation after failing to pay his lawyers’ retainer fees, and a big spender on cars and townhouses but not so much on a $2 million civil judgment from 2011 that he still owes to his courtroom opponent. The Lawbook has the latest on this truly remarkable legal saga.
The 50 largest corporate law firms operating in Texas employed the same number of lawyers in 2017 that they did in 2016, but they made a lot more money. Exclusive research by The Texas Lawbook examines the business of corporate law in Texas - from revenues and head count. Several law firms had the best year ever financially and others scrambled for survival. We have the data and it has a story to tell.
Though that legal degree on your wall is kind of important in order to practice law, it turns out that everything you need to know about civility in the profession boils down to the ‘Golden Rule’ that you already learned in kindergarten: treat others the way you would want to be treated.
With all the complexities digitalization has brought, it is no surprise that courts require parties engaged in e-discovery to demonstrate some baseline level of technical competence. But how computer savvy does a party have to be? At what point can an opponent cry foul and request direct access to electronic devices for forensic examination? These are questions the Texas Supreme Court recently addressed in In re Marion Shipman.
Prominent litigator Mike Gruber has left the Dallas litigation firm that bears his name to join Dorsey & Whitney, a 106-year old Minnesota firm. The decision was hard, he says, but his reasoning is simple: “Its hard to compete against these national law firms." Mark Curriden has the story.
The firm has been on a lateral hiring spree during the past year that has increased its lawyer headcount in the state by 50 percent.
The firm will operate in Texas as Clark Strasburger, but as Clark Hill everywhere else.
Former Andrews Kurth Kenyon litigation partner John McDowell has joined forces with longtime friends and fellow Hughes & Luce ex-pats Paul Koning and Bobby Rubarts at the Dallas trial law firm Koning Rubarts.
On March 23, the Texas Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion with significant implications for fraud and negligent misrepresentation claims asserted by one contracting party based on alleged extra-contractual representations by its counterparty.
On Matt Henry’s first day as a lawyer, he was assigned a research project for a subsidiary of Texas power giant TXU Energy. Twenty-three years later, that company, now called Oncor Electric Delivery, has named Henry to be its general counsel. In exclusive interviews with The Texas Lawbook, Henry and Oncor CEO Allen Nye discuss how they met 25 years ago, the legal needs facing the business and their plans for outside counsel.
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