Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
Dallas is out of room for lawyers named Amy Stewart. The two who are in today’s North Texas legal community, Amy E. Stewart of Amy Stewart Law and Amy M. Stewart of Estes Okon, have received each other’s depositions, court transcripts – and in one instance – phone call from the other’s father. But they share more than a name. Find out tomorrow what else they have in common.
A Dallas judge improperly disqualified the law firm formerly known as Bickel & Brewer from being involved in a multimillion-dollar international business dispute after the law firm hired a former executive from the company it is suing who had confidential information about the case, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday. The justices say the trial court used the wrong legal standard.
Houston and Dallas business attorneys are more satisfied with the federal judges in their area than they are with state judges, according to new data from the Houston Bar Association and Dallas Bar Association. The two bar associations’ judiciary polls, which come out every two years, rate individual judges based on HBA and DBA members’ satisfaction with their impartiality, preparation for hearings and trial, timely opinions, knowledge of the law and temperament in the courtroom.
A federal judge in Dallas Monday awarded $9.6 million to Flower Mound-based ThermoTek Inc. after a jury late last week determined that a competitor fraudulently obtained the medical products manufacturer’s business information for a series of physical therapy machines.
A group of North Texas business leaders plan to ask a judge next week to issue an $8 million judgment against Dallas-based Southwest Securities – now HilltopSecurities – and one
By extending into Dallas, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will better enable Texas attorneys to compete for business with their pricier counterparts in the Washington, D.C. area, experts say.
Lawyers for a 56-year-old Fort Worth air conditioning repairman severely burned while fixing a compressor are asking a Texas state court judge to uphold a multimillion-dollar judgment for their client. Clarence Johnson sued St. Louis-based Emerson Climate Technologies and Fusite for designing and selling the defective compressor that sprayed scorching hot oil on his face and torso causing him to suffer second-degree and third-degree burns on 62 percent of his body.
This week, three judges on the Dallas Court of Appeals are expected to be chosen to hear the appeal of Energy Trans Partners' $500 million judgment against pipeline competitor Enterprise. Legal experts say could be the biggest and most important business dispute between two Texas companies since Pennzoil clobbered Texaco in the mid-1980s for $10 billion. Both companies have beefed up their legal teams with high-priced legal talent to do battle once again.
The annual Eastern District of Texas 2015 Bench Bar Conference started Wednesday at the Plano Marriott Legacy Town Center in Plano and The Texas Lawbook is there and providing complete coverage.
A federal jury in Houston ruled Tuesday that Sterling Engineering Group and its chairman conspired with a former Suncoast Post-Tension manager to obtain and use work product created by Suncoast engineers and protected under the Texas trade secrets law and federal copyright laws. The awarded $11 million in actual damages and another $13.5 million in punitive damages.
Houston trial lawyer John Zavitsanos went after opposing counsel and her “playbook” to win a jury verdict of no wrongdoing for his client, National Oilwell Varco, in a $120 million-dollar employment discrimination lawsuit. (Editor's Warning: This article contains offensive language.)
Vertical North America claimed Bracewell's client, Vopak Terminal Deer Park Inc., fraudulently induced it into entering into an agreement to store ethanol at Vopak’s terminal on the Houston Ship Channel, and that Vopak breached that agreement.
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