Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
U.S. District Chief Judge Barbara Lynn and Texas District Judge Tonya Parker are the two best civil court judges in Dallas, according to a new poll of lawyers who practice before them. The survey gave three other judges failing grades. The Texas Lawbook has details.
During the past year, four of the most skilled trial lawyers in Texas have scored several huge trial verdicts. On Monday night, in an exclusive live event hosted by The Texas Lawbook, the Texas GC Forum and SMU Dedman School of Law, those four lawyers - who will be questioned by federal judge Karen Gren Scholer - will take attendees behind the scenes of their historic courtroom victories. The Lawbook has full details.
The Houston-based company defeated a derivative lawsuit tied to its 2018 merger with Enbridge. Natalie Posgate details the case and highlights the Skadden team who defended Spectra.
Texas lawyers at Norton Rose Fulbright and D.C. attorneys at Mayer Brown aided two oil and gas pipeline manufacturing companies to victory in a false advertising and unfair competition case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Yetter Coleman partner Collin Cox has about 200 bottles of nail polish sitting in his office. He recently won a $2.7 million jury verdict for his client in a four-year legal battle related to all of those bottles and has learned the nuances of at-home polish kits along the way. Natalie Posgate has the story.
A Los Angeles jury on Friday handed a $40 million win to a California woman diagnosed with mesothelioma in the latest talcum powder trial brought against Johnson & Johnson.
A federal judge in Ohio has awarded Chesapeake Exploration a summary judgment win in a rare class-action-certified dispute over oil and gas royalties in Ohio’s Utica Shale.
Most defendants do not hire a global corporate law firm to handle old-fashioned car crash cases, but Brenda Buenrostro v. Richardo Machuca, Stripes, Sunoco and Energy Transfer Equity had the potential to be much bigger than a garden variety auto accident – millions of dollars bigger. Enter Norton Rose Fulbright.
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