Receiving provisional approval is a stepping stone to being a fully accredited law school, a university official told the Dallas Business Journal. The UNT team presented their case before an ABA committee June 3, a release from the university said.
Russ Hubbard: Keeping American Airlines Data Safe & Secure
When American Airlines promoted Russ Hubbard to associate general counsel last week, the airline was demonstrating how important cybersecurity and data privacy are to the company. Hubbard is one of the nation’s leading legal experts on an issue that now threatens every business in the U.S. This article is looks at Hubbard’s career and the steps he’s taking at American to protect his employer and their passengers.
Russ Hubbard: Keeping American Airlines Data Safe & Secure
When American Airlines promoted Russ Hubbard to associate general counsel last week, the airline was demonstrating how important cybersecurity and data privacy are to the company. Hubbard is one of the nation’s leading legal experts on an issue that now threatens every business in the U.S. This article is looks at Hubbard’s career and the steps he’s taking at American to protect his employer and their passengers.
WannaCry Attack Prompts Focus on Cyber Insurance
Driven by headlines, cyber insurance discussions often focus on data breaches and coverage for notification, public relations and breach coach expenses, investigation costs, and defense and indemnification against third-party claims for damages.
As WannaCry illustrates, however, cybersecurity risks reach well beyond data breaches – extending to information system failures, the loss or destruction of data, cyber ransom demands and even cyber theft.
Gibson Dunn, Latham Work on $839M Offshore Drilling Merger
A group of Houston lawyers from Latham & Watkins and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s brand new Bayou City outpost led Monday’s $839 million merger between two offshore drilling competitors: London-based Ensco plc and Houston-based Atwood Oceanics.
Tim Powers: ‘What Keeps Me Up at Night’
Haynes and Boone managing partner Tim Powers is navigating the 570-lawyer firm through turbulent and challenging times never before witnessed in the Texas legal market. Large, full-service corporate law firms in Dallas and Houston are simultaneously achieving historic financial successes and facing dire obstacles that threaten their very existence.
“To say that we are in a volatile market would be an understatement,” Powers says.
Baker Botts Leads Major Antitrust Trial for Waste Control Specialists
Antitrust trials are usually dominated by dreadfully boring expert testimony over economic models and vertical v. horizontal agreements. Van Beckwith is representing Valhi subsidiary Waste Control Specialists of Dallas against the U.S. Justice Dept. in the first antitrust trial of the Trump era. About 180 West Texas jobs and $367 million are at stake. This trial conducted earlier this month was anything but boring. In fact, it got personal. The Texas Lawbook has the details.
President Trump’s Tax Reforms: What Alternative Asset Managers Need to Know
Love it or hate it, the President’s current tax proposal could have a substantial impact on the alternative asset industry. The authors of this article highlight a number of the President’s proposed reforms, with the aim of providing a measured analysis of the potential real-world implications for certain taxpayers and, specifically, the alternative asset industry.
Huntsman Hires no TX Lawyers (That we Know of) in $14B Clariant Merger
The two chemicals giants hired three two Swiss law firms and three U.S. law firms to handle the “merger of equals.” One firm is Texas-based, but its deal team is unknown. The Texas Lawbook has the details.
SEC Charges Texas Investment Firm & CEO with Fraud
Katy-based Bryant United Capital Funding and its CEO are operating an illegal real estate mortgage investment scheme that defrauded more than 100 investors out of millions of dollars, according to SEC documents that were unsealed Friday in federal court in Sherman. The SEC accuses BUCF and its leader, Thurman Bryant III of Frisco, with securities fraud and making false statements to investors.