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Contractor, Employee or Something New? The Classification Questions Facing College Athletic NIL Collectives

With booster-funded collectives accounting for the vast majority of college athletic NIL compensation, universities and third-party collectives face mounting legal exposure over whether student-athletes are independent contractors, common-law employees or an entirely new legal hybrid. In Part 2 of a series for The Texas Lawbook, this article examines how clearinghouse scrutiny, performance benchmarks and IRS control tests could trigger joint-employer liability under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

October 21, 2026 Marc D. Katz & Maria A. Garrett

Dallas Employment Litigation Principal Moves to Jackson Lewis from FordHarrison

Buena Vista Lyons, an employment litigation principal, has joined Jackson Lewis in Dallas from FordHarrison.

September 14, 2026 Elle Grinnell

Derek Lipscombe, Alex Pratt Join Haynes Boone’s Labor & Employment Practice

Derek Lipscombe was managing counsel at Toyota North America for nearly 11 years, and before that he spent four years as senior managing counsel at J.C. Penney. Alex Pratt practiced law at Perkins Coie for nine years. This week, both lawyers joined the Dallas office of Haynes Boone as partners in its expanding labor and employment practice.

Legal industry analysts say the lateral hires give the Dallas-based corporate firm a distinct advantage in the labor side of the employment law practice — an expertise that they describe as often overlooked yet in demand.

September 9, 2026 Mark Curriden

Are They Employees? The Question College Sports Can No Longer Avoid.

The NCAA just paid $2.8 billion to settle a dispute about college athletes’ rights to share in revenue generated by their sports, effectively conceding that the relationship between schools and athletes is heavily economic and not purely educational. This appears to be another key step to resolving an increasingly disputed question in college athletics: Are college athletes employees?

This is Part One of a series examining the legal battles that are reshaping college sports.

August 31, 2026 Marc D. Katz & Maria A. Garrett

Four Pitfalls European Companies Should Avoid When Transferring Senior Leaders to the U.S.

As European companies launch operations into Texas and across the United States, transferring senior leaders stateside is among the most consequential steps they’ll take during the expansion process. In the course of these cross-border moves, foreign companies frequently underestimate four pitfalls that can undermine even well-planned transfers.

August 24, 2026 Joshua Redelman

Texas Drew the Line on AI. Here’s How Employers Are Walking It.

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.

July 27, 2026 Nicolette J. Zulli

Amy M. Stewart Teams Up with Fisher Phillips

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.

July 20, 2026 Brooks Igo

From Risk to Reckoning: How a Dallas Lawyer’s Long Fight Delivered Vindication

Dallas attorney Laura Benitez Geisler agreed to represent former police captain Terry Bevill after hearing his story. He had been fired, arrested and charged with a felony for signing an affidavit questioning whether a coworker could receive a fair trial in Wood County, putting him at odds with powerful rural officials.

Despite losing his job, health insurance and facing legal uncertainty for 16 months, Bevill said he would act the same way again because it was his duty to uphold the Constitution.

Moved by his conviction, Geisler felt a responsibility to take his case.

June 19, 2026 Mark Smith

Small East Texas Town Honors Police Officer It Once Fired and Prosecuted

QUITMAN — After a nine-year legal battle, the city of Quitman has acknowledged the hardships faced by Terry Bevill, a former police captain who was fired and later arrested for aggravated perjury after signing a 2017 affidavit stating he didn’t believe a coworker could receive a fair trial in Wood County.

June 19, 2026 Mark Smith

Dallas Influencer Sues Over Apparel Company’s Deepfake, Partially Nude Instagram Post

A Dallas influencer who has cultivated an image for her 400,000 followers of a body-positive, health-conscious, family-friendly mother of three alleges an intimate apparel company “disempowered and humiliated” her by posting an AI-generated deepfake image appearing to show her partially nude body on Instagram. Tranchin’s lawyer, Brett Rosenthal of Reese Marketos, told The Texas Lawbook that EBY had not only disclaimed responsibility for the post, but at one point also threatened his client with a breach of contract claim after she declined to provide additional content to the company.

June 11, 2026 Michelle Casady

Litigation Roundup: SCOTUS Reverses Fifth Circuit in AT&T Case

In this edition of Litigation Roundup, a Houston appellate court parses who owes a duty of care in a wrongful death lawsuit involving a crash allegedly caused by a driver who was engaging in phone sex, and investigators with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fort Worth regional office reach a deal to end claims a Dallas-based real estate investment company president was lying to investors.

June 8, 2026 Michelle Casady

Litigation Roundup: Supersedeas Bond Fight in $210M Case Heats Up in Fifth Circuit

In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Hunton Andrews Kurth scores a win for Oncor in an appeal of a National Labor Relations Board decision, and the former head of internal audits for a defunct electric vehicle company strikes a deal to settle insider trading allegations.

May 4, 2026 Michelle Casady