Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
A 12-member Texarkana jury returned a defense verdict in favor of DoorDash Thursday after a four-day trial before U.S. District Judge Robert Schroeder, finding Fall Line Patents failed to prove the delivery company infringed its patent.
In this edition of Asked & Answered, AZA partner Monica Uddin discusses her first trial and what being a hiring partner looks like for her. She also shares her own misconceptions about the practice.
By all accounts, the Texas Business Court has met or exceeded expectations. Business court judges have moved their growing dockets quickly and efficiently, and they have not been as unfriendly to plaintiffs as many lawyers feared. Yet some practitioners see specific areas that have room for improvement.
Just Wednesday morning, all 10 judges were reappointed for their second two-year terms, which most lawyers applauded.
A lingering question was answered Wednesday when Gov. Greg Abbott announced in a news release that he is reappointing all 10 sitting Texas Business Court judges to two-year terms. The announcement comes about a month before the current terms are set to expire Sept. 1.
The Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act is reshaping how businesses hire, evaluate and schedule workers, shifting AI in the workplace from an abstraction to an immediate operational risk. With the Texas attorney general launching an online enforcement portal Sept. 1, this article gives practical advice for mapping TRAIGA across key workforce use cases and establishing a defensible AI governance framework.
A two-week jury trial concluded Thursday with a $604 million verdict against a Dallas-based trucking company, the driver and a freight brokerage company in a wrongful death case stemming from a multi-vehicle accident that killed three people.
Robin Gibbs' first jury trial was in the fall of 1971 representing an insurance company in a $278 car accident case. He charged $35 an hour. Fifty-five years later, Gibbs is a giant in the legal profession. He has won jury and bench trials in six different decades. His hourly rate has gone up a bit: $1,700 per hour. He pioneered the concept of litigation boutiques in the mid-1970s. In an exclusive interview with The Texas Lawbook, Gibbs said he is officially retiring from the practice of law Dec. 31.
Mark Cuban’s quest to depose the corporate representative of Arena Development Intermediate is moving forward after a Dallas judge set a hearing for next month on the Rule 202 petition. Cuban’s filing claims the pre-suit deposition is aimed at uncovering details about how the Dallas Mavericks struck a deal to buy the Valley View Mall property.
For the second time in four years, Texas legislators turned to Michael Massengale, a former appellate justice, to write a report about a tragedy where adults failed to protect young children. Working with criminal defense attorney Casey Garrett, the reports on the 2025 deadly flooding and the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde worked to set the record straight. Lessons from the flood likely saved lives when rain returned to the Hill Country last week, but more needs to be done to make camps safe, the two investigators told The Texas Lawbook.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, a direct-to-consumer eyewear company alleges Perkins Coie’s failure to conduct basic diligence ahead of a planned acquisition cost it $50 million, the appellate courts in Houston wipe out a pair of multimillion-dollar jury verdicts, and a Dallas seafood company draws a fine from the federal government for mislabeling Chilean salmon as a more expensive product.
Dallas litigation and trial firm Carter Arnett kicked off the second half of the year by elevating Linda Stahl and Stacey Cho Hernandez as name partners.
A 30-minute coffee between Amy Stewart and Adam Sloustcher went into extra time and turned into a momentous meeting for the two Dallas labor and employment pros.
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