Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
The three companies hired Barrett Reasoner, Paula Hinton and Winn Carter to fight Harris County's demand for $3 billion for the 1965 disposal of tons of sludge laced with dioxin.
Recent headlines about abusive NFL players, accompanied by dramatic video, have brought domestic violence into the forefront of the national conversation. What does a general counsel do when its his or her employee who is being abused at home? What are the ramifications if one of your employees is accused of abuse? These two experts provide practical guidance.
A judge in Oklahoma on Monday ordered Hamm to pay his wife $323 million before the end of 2014 and another $7 million a month for the next 93 months. The judgment is far less than the $6 billion Sue Ann Hamm argued she was due. The court decision means that Hamm will retain ownership and control of Continental, the oil and gas company he founded in 1967.
Five decades ago, a Houston paper mill dumped tons of sludge laced with dioxin into pits near the San Jacinto River. Harris County is now asking a jury to force three corporations, including Houston-based Waste Management, to pay $1 billion in penalties for their actions. The trial, now in week three, features some of Houston’s premier courtroom litigators, including Paula Hinton, Barrett Reasoner, Robin Gibbs and Winn Carter. They argue the companies followed all environmental laws and guidelines. The Texas Lawbook has all the details of this potential lardmark trial underway in Houston.
A Dallas federal jury stunned plaintiffs lawyers Thursday when it ruled in favor of Johnson & Johnson in a massive seven-week defective hip implant trial.
Even when an in-house lawyer’s advice has a business component, if one of several primary purposes of the communication is to give or seek legal advice, the confidentiality of that communication will be protected. Still, in-house lawyers and outside counsel should proceed with caution in turning over protected materials to third parties.
Dallas trial lawyer Mark Werbner may have won the most important trial of the decade this week. He engineered a 10-year global legal battle against Jordan’s Arab Bank for allegedly financing terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel. The result was a landmark verdict that could change international banking forever. But the victory was not without personal consequences to Werbner, who still has nightmares about what he's seen and learned. “I didn’t realize the personal toll it would take on my family and me,” Werbner confides. “This case has been an obsession for me – to the point of being unhealthy.” Read the article for full details.
A San Antonio probate judge has granted a summary judgment for ACCC Holding Corporation (AHC), dismissing all claims that the deceased founder wrongfully transferred his wife’s inherited shares to his children before his death.
The number of serious or deadly crashes involving commercial trucks hauling materials in the oil and gas boom has skyrocketed during the past three years.
It is simply a matter of time before the federal government starts enacting changes that could increase minimum wage, raise the salary threshold for overtime exemption, and change commonly used overtime exemptions that make it more difficult for employers to qualify employees under those exemptions. Is your company prepared? This article examines the landscape and tells you what to expect.
The nominations of Harris County District Judge Alfred H. Bennett, Brownsville District Judge Jose Rolando Olvera, Jr. and U.S. Magistrate Judge George C. Hanks, Jr. of Houston have been sent to the U.S. Senate for confirmation.
The jury found the tire company negligent for allowing continued exposure of asbestos fibers to its former employee, Carl Rogers, who passed away in 2009 from mesothelioma as a result.
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