Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
More than 50 law firms have asked the Texas Supreme Court Professional Ethics Committee to reconsider an ethics opinion issued last month that prohibits law firms from identifying non-lawyer employees as “officer” in their title. The ethics opinion would ban job titles including chief operating officer, chief marketing officer and chief technology officer.
A unanimous Supreme Court ruling Thursday will help courts apply existing patent laws to software inventions, experts say.
The Richardson video game maker id Software and its parent, ZeniMax Media, have laid out a detailed list of grievances in a trade secret dispute with Oculus VR, outside experts say.
Some 10 months after a new state trade secret statute became effective, an expected surge in litigation hasn't ensued, experts say.
A Dallas jury ruled in favor of the Carrollton-based restaurant chain regarding a bitter joint venture dispute involving restaurants at the DFW Airport.
A federal jury in Victoria awarded $25 million to HeartBrand Beef, Inc. for a Japanese cattle deal that went south with a Colorado cattle ranch.
Joe Ahmad and John Zavitsanos started their law firm in 1993 with no clients, no revenues and no savings. Their office was a rickety old building that leaked every time it rained. Now, in the age of litigation boutiques, AZA is law firm of preference for GCs at Plains All American, National Oilwell Varco and Apache who want to take their business disputes to trial.
The Dallas lawyer is handling some of the biggest business lawsuits in Texas, but he never takes depositions, doesn't argue pre-trial motions or pick juries and he never cross-examines witnesses. In fact, Nolland avoids courtrooms all together.Instead, he has pioneered a new practice area and has gained believers including David Beck, John DeGroote and Halliburton GC Robb Voyles.
A Richardson video game maker and its corporate parent are going after a California firm that they claim hasn’t compensated them for technical know-how they provided in making a virtual reality system.
A bone-chilling fear swept through lawyers at Baker Botts Thursday when a Dallas jury ruled that the Texas-based law firm acted negligently more than a decade ago when it represented two competing technology companies vying for similar patent protections, but didn’t disclose the potential conflict to its client. The jury placed damages against Baker Botts at $40.5 million. But 30 seconds later, the fear turned to extraordinary relief when the five-woman and one-man panel also found that Addision-based Axcess International waited three years too long to file its lawsuit against Baker Botts and, as a result, the 700-lawyer firm likely will not have to pay a dime.
Following three weeks of testimony, lawyers for Axcess International and Baker Botts gave closing arguments Wednesday to the six-person jury. Dallas-based Axcess is seeking $51 million in damages.
A former employee of Dallas-based Genesco Sports Enterprises, Inc. claims his old bosses made knowingly false statements about him to Dallas County prosecutors in an effort to fraudulently help the company win a separate civil lawsuit against its former employee.
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