This is the story of three lawyers at Keurig Dr Pepper — Jim Baldwin, Anthony Shoemaker and Stephen Cole — who took a huge risk in leading a normally conservative, litigation-adverse company in suing a business partner, the business partner’s profanity-spewing founder and Dr Pepper’s biggest and universally feared competitor, Coca-Cola. Along with outside counsel at Gibson Dunn, they took a highly complex dispute and boiled it down to one sentence in a contract. By the end, they had opposing counsel pleading with the judge to push for a settlement weeks before trial. The result: a $925 million victory and a finalist for the 2022 DFW Outstanding Corporate Counsel Award for Business Litigation of the Year.
PepsiCo Foods’ Adrienne Mosley: ‘Out of our poverty came a great, life-changing blessing’
Adrienne Brown Mosley’s mother did not have money for a present for her 18th birthday. Instead, she convinced a lawyer in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to allow young Adrienne to follow her for the day. “This shadowing day changed the entire trajectory of my life,” Mosley said.
Mosley is now the deputy GC of PepsiCo Foods North America, where she has developed initiatives to build a culture of compliance in a more stringent antitrust regulatory environment, helped enact innovative product partnerships to address supply chain challenges and worked to reinvigorate the corporate giant’s diversity and inclusion efforts through innovative mentoring programs.
The Association of Corporate Counsel’s DFW Chapter and The Texas Lawbook have named Mosley the recipient of the 2022 DFW Corporate Counsel Award for Senior Counsel of the Year for a Midsized Legal Department.
2022 DFW Corporate Counsel Awards Finalists: Debbie Bartlett, Juli Greenberg, Bill Dunne and Kelli Roach
The Association of Corporate Counsel’s DFW Chapter and The Texas Lawbook have announced the finalists for the 2022 DFW Corporate Counsel Awards for Achievement in Diversity and Inclusion, General Counsel of the Year for a Solo Legal Department and the Lifetime Achievement Award. The legal departments include Texas Instruments, General Motors, Black Mountain Sand and Civitas Capital Group.
2022 DFW Finalists Announced for Senior Counsel of the Year, Rookie of the Year
In-house counsel at American Airlines, City Electric Supply, Forney Corporation, MB2 Dental and OpTic Gaming are finalists to be honored for the 2022 Dallas Fort Worth Corporate Counsel Awards. Each year, the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter and The Texas Lawbook recognize about two-dozen corporate in-house counsel for the extraordinary legal work and leadership they demonstrated during the previous year.
ACC-DFW, Texas Lawbook Announce PepsiCo Foods, Pioneer Natural Resources, Tuesday Morning Legal Departments to be Honored
The Association of Corporate Counsel’s Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter and The Texas Lawbook announced Thursday the second group of finalists for the 2022 DFW Corporate Counsel Awards. On the final Thursday of each January, ACC DFW and The Lawbook honor corporate in-house counsel who faced extraordinary challenges during the prior year and achieved tremendous successes on behalf of their clients and the legal profession. Today, we announce the finalists for DFW Senior Counsel of the Year for a Midsized Legal Department, DFW GC of the Year for a Small Legal Department, and the DFW Pro Bono and Public Service Award.
Texas Lawbook, ACC-DFW to Honor GCs at McAfee, Celanese, HF Sinclair, Keurig Dr Pepper, Ocwen Financial
The Association of Corporate Counsel’s Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter and The Texas Lawbook announced Tuesday the first round of finalists and a few winners for the 2022 DFW Corporate Counsel Awards. Each year, ACC DFW and The Lawbook honor leading lawyers within the corporate in-house community who scored extraordinary successes and had a substantive impact on the legal profession and the business community in North Texas.
The Lawbook announces the finalists and winners in four different categories: Business Litigation of the Year; M&A Deal of the Year; General Counsel of the Year for a Large Legal Department; and General Counsel of the Year for a Midsized Legal Department.
Pros and Cons of Arbitration vs. Jury Trial for Employers
Should employers consider the inclusion of a mandatory arbitration clause in their employment agreements? This article addresses some of the pros and cons of an employer’s use of an arbitration clause rather than having its disputes litigated before a jury.
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In-House & Outside Lawyers Talk Need, Best Practices at Pro Bono Summit
A group of high-ranking in-house counsel and private practice pro bono specialists swapped stories and methods for how they’ve been able to achieve pro bono engagement and keep their lawyers incentivized to give back through pro bono. Plus, the in-house lawyers discussed their positions on partnering with law firms on pro bono projects.
At HPE, Pro Bono is ‘A Bedrock Principle’
For the 250-member legal team at Hewlett Packard Enterprises, pro bono is in their DNA. The corporate lawyers worked with Baker McKenzie and Texas Appleseed to update a legal handbook for homeless teenagers, helped veterans draft wills, worked with victims of domestic violence, assisted immigrant youth in obtaining DACA status and launched a Texas Virtual Legal Clinic for Youth. Citing HPE’s extraordinary successes, the Texas General Counsel Forum is honoring the Houston technology company with the 2022 Magna Stella Award for Outstanding Pro Bono.
How Mary Kay Maintains its Roots in DEI
Sixty percent of the people in Mary Kay’s legal department are persons of color. Eighty percent are women. Forty percent speak more than one language. Nearly six decades after the Addison-based company was founded, the cosmetic giant remains a model of diversity and inclusion. The Texas General Counsel Forum is honoring Mary Kay GC Julia Simon and senior managing counsel Naisha Covarrubias with the Magna Stella Award for Outstanding Diversity.
Blue Peak Fiber Hires Marc Krasney as VP of Legal Affairs
Blue Peak Fiber, a high-speed internet service in the Midwest, has hired Houston lawyer Marc Krasney as its first vice president of legal affairs. Krasney, who started his new position Monday, had served as general counsel at Houston-based internet provider Pure Speed Lightwave for more than seven years.
Jury Says Ex-GC Breached Fiduciary Duty to Client
A Harris County jury recently determined that Matthew Smith, former general counsel to Microvast, had breached his fiduciary duty to his client, and owed it the cost of a laptop computer it purchased for him. The jurors rejected Smith’s argument that he was entitled to $3.4 million based on an oral agreement for stock options.
Q&A with GI Alliance CLO Cheryl Camin Murray
Cheryl Camin Murray and her legal team at DFW-based GI Alliance helped steer the nation’s largest gastroenterology practice through a physician-led buyout in August that valued the company at $2.2 billion. The deal happened a little over a year after Murray, a mother of triplets who built a thriving healthcare practice over more than two decades in private practice, joined GI Alliance as its chief legal officer.
The Texas Lawbook caught up with Murray about the Apollo-backed financing and her move in-house.
SMU Dedman Law’s Innovative Corporate Counsel Externship Program Shines, Thanks to Loyal GC Alums
During the past decade, 700 SMU Dedman law students have done externships at 100 corporate legal departments including Microsoft, Keurig Dr Pepper, Interstate Batteries, Liberty Mutual and Vistra Corp. “The program puts students in real-life situations where they have educational opportunities unobtainable in the classroom,” SMU Dedman assistant dean Stephen Yeager, creator of the externship initiative. An extern with Keurig Dr Pepper witnessed how different flavored drinks were developed. Fluor Corporation let law students visit construction sites. Mary Kay allowed its Russian-born extern to work on a project involving Russian data privacy laws. The Texas Lawbook interviewed a half-dozen SMU alumni who did externships and are now in-house counsel.
Only Four Texas Corporations Sign Pro-Diversity Briefs in College Admissions Case
The four companies are supporting Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, which have been sued by Students for Fair Admissions, an organization that claims that Asian Americans are being discriminated against when colleges consider race or ethnicity as a factor in admitting students.
Three GCs Provide a Peek into Their Companies’ Diversity Efforts
The top lawyers at Jacobs Engineering Group, Southwest Airlines and El Rancho Supermercado spent Tuesday’s lunch hour speaking about multiple aspects of diversity within the legal profession — what diversity means for them and their organizations, why it’s important in both the in-house and outside counsel context and how it could be improved. The Lawbook attended the event, which was organized by the Dallas Regional Chamber, hosted by UNT Dallas College of Law and sponsored by Munsch Hardt and Carrington Coleman.
Alana Matthews Leaves Dallas Stars to Be Pioneering Entrepreneur
Last month, Matthews left the Dallas Stars to pursue another deeply-held passion: creating a business that focuses exclusively on custom-made luxury workwear for professional women.
Siltstone Capital’s Mani Walia Wins Houston Legal Innovation Award
When the Houston private equity firm Siltstone Capital decided to expand its investment portfolio beyond energy, minerals and real estate into the arena of litigation finance, it had the perfect advisor already in the house. Siltstone General Counsel Mani Walia has leveraged his background in Big Law, plaintiffs’ IP litigation and private equity to create a new model for litigation finance investments. Citing Walia’s creativity and achievements, the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook awarded the 2022 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for Legal Innovation to the Siltstone Capital general counsel.
Q&A: Mani Walia
Premium-Only Content: Mani Walia shares tips and pet peeves for outside counsel.
Archrock GC Stephanie Hildebrandt – A Lifetime of Achievements and a ‘Never-ending Education’
Stephanie Hildebrandt has been an in-house lawyer and general counsel at some of the nation’s largest energy companies and has been involved in some of the biggest and most complicated civil lawsuits and M&A transactions in Texas. For three decades, corporate executives from Texaco and El Paso Energy to Enterprise Products to Archrock have relied on Hildebrandt’s legal knowledge, ability to analyze an issue, wisdom and creativity to develop and execute a successful strategy.
The Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook honor Hildebrandt with the 2022 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Q&A: Theresa Terrell
Premium-Only Content: Theresa Terrell discusses what she’d do if she won the Powerball lottery tomorrow and shares pet peeves regarding outside counsel.
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