DBA Honors Texas Lawbook, WFAA-TV with 2025 Philbin Award

The Dallas Bar Association announced Thursday that Texas Lawbook reporter Mark Curriden is the recipient of the 2025 Stephen Philbin Award for excellence in legal reporting for his coverage of President Donald Trump’s executive orders taking aim at Big Law. The judges said, “The Texas Lawbook courageously reported on an issue of extraordinary concern and little mainstream awareness. They reported extensively and comprehensively on a subject of paramount importance to the rule of law."

September 25, 2025 Brooks Igo

AI Is Changing Workforce Dynamics — Here’s How the DOL and NLRB Are Responding

At a pace few workforce analysts anticipated, artificial intelligence is expanding its role in the employment context, often in areas organizations had not predicted.

September 25, 2025 Jay M. Wallace & Sydnie A. Shimkus

AT&T, Nokia Get $166.3M Infringement Verdict Axed

Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore authored the court’s 15-page opinion that was issued Wednesday. She wrote that Jonathan Wells, who was Finesse’s infringement expert at trial, “offered no clear or detailed explanation for his contradictory testimony.” A jury had awarded Finesse the lump sum damages after finding AT&T and Nokia infringed two patents related to intermodulation interference, a longstanding problem for wireless networks.

September 24, 2025 Michelle Casady

Asked & Answered with Dykema’s Melanie Fry: Cherry Coke, Community Park Project and Carrying a Legacy

Asked & Answered is a standing feature The Texas Lawbook brings to readers every other week highlighting the work of leading Texas lawyers and offering insight into their lives outside the courtroom. In this edition, Dykema member Melanie Fry discusses the best advice she has received and the trends she sees in her appellate practice.

September 24, 2025 Alexa Shrake

Texas Judge Tosses $112M Infringement Verdict Against Samsung 

In a three-page order, U.S. District Judge Robert Schroeder III granted Samsung’s motion for judgment as a matter of law that it had not infringed asserted claims in three patents covering technology used in smart phones and smart home appliances. The judge also invalidated asserted claims in two of the patents in the Sept. 18 order. 

September 23, 2025 Michelle Casady

Back to the Future? How Relics of Property Law May Reemerge to Determine Rights and Obligations in Crypto Land

Here’s a question that has arisen more frequently as we’ve litigated cryptocurrency cases: What does it mean to “own” a crypto token? While blockchain technology offers revolutionary financial possibilities, it simultaneously challenges traditional concepts of ownership and accountability. Legal frameworks globally are still adapting to digital asset realities, with varying standards for ownership verification, asset seizure and inheritance.

September 23, 2025 Mazin A. Sbaiti & George M. Padis

Litigation Roundup: Houston Methodist Gets Putative Data Privacy Class Action Tossed

In this edition of Litigation Roundup, executives of a Houston-based company that operates strip clubs are indicted on tax fraud charges in New York, and a trio of cities ask the entire Third Court of Appeals to rehear their constitutional challenge to a new state law. 

September 22, 2025 Michelle Casady

Dallas Firm Secures $83M Jury Verdict for Woman’s Mesothelioma Death

A Boston jury found a Massachusetts woman's mesothelioma death was caused by American Art Clay Company’s asbestos-laden products. This is the second multimillion-dollar verdict in three weeks for Dallas-based litigation boutique Iola, Gross & Forbes-King.

September 18, 2025 Alexa Shrake