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2025 GC and Legal Department of the Year Awards Announced by ACC DFW and The Texas Lawbook

The Association of Corporate Counsel’s DFW Chapter and The Texas Lawbook are kicking off the ninth annual 2025 DFW Corporate Counsel Awards by announcing the General Counsel of the Year and Corporate Legal Department of the Year honors, which includes in-house lawyers from PepsiCo, Charles Schwab, Parkland Health, CSW Industrials, Solo Brands, Trintech and Presidio Investment Holdings. 

The DFW Corporate Counsel Awards recognize the extraordinary legal and business successes of in-house counsel. 

Over the next 10 days, The Lawbook and ACC-DFW will announce the finalists for 14 award categories ranging from Rookie of the Year, Lifetime Achievement and M&A Transaction and Business Litigation of the Year to General Counsel and Senior Counsel of the Year for small, midsized and large legal departments. In addition, we will unveil recipients of the awards for Achievement in Pro Bono and Public Service and Diversity and Inclusion.

Houston Suit Against Dollar Tree Over Ejaculation Incident Alleges Nationwide Pattern

Houston personal injury attorney Anna Greenberg represents four women who allege they were ejaculated on while shopping at Dollar Tree stores — one in Miami, one in San Diego, a client in Colorado Springs who was shopping with her mother and 2-year-old child, and one in Houston. 

“I would say it’s a uniquely vile sex crime, and my clients are uniquely injured here because it’s happening to them in a public space,” Greenberg told The Texas Lawbook in a recent interview. “They are customers at a store, minding their own business and often are approached from behind and don’t know what’s happening to them until it’s too late.” (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA via AP Images)

Krisa Benskin Joins Hogan Lovells Houston Office

Hogan Lovells said this week that Krisa Benskin has joined the international firm as a corporate and finance partner in Houston after nearly four years with Latham & Watkins. Prior to that, Benskin spent a dozen years at Baker Botts.

Lawsuits: Texas Companies Illegally Supplied Technology to Russia for Ukrainian Attacks

Four technology companies either headquartered in Texas or with large operations in Texas illegally supplied semiconductor components — microchips, processors and programmable devices — that have been used by Russia’s military to kill thousands in drone and missile attacks in Ukraine, according to five different lawsuits filed Wednesday in the Dallas County Court at Law. 

The lawsuits claim that Texas Instruments, Advanced Micro Devices, Intel and Mouser Electronics sold their technology to third parties which they knew or should have known were then providing those technologies to Russia to use in the war in Ukraine.

A team of prominent Texas lawyers, including Austin trial lawyer Mikal Watts, Dallas trial lawyer Charla Aldous and the Dallas office of Baker Hostetler, a national law firm with about 1,000 attorneys, are representing the plaintiffs.

Mikal Watts: My 10 Days in Ukraine — ‘Stop the Chips, Stop the War’

In early November, I addressed a room full of lawyers at a CLE seminar, and said, “nothing is more powerful than a bar card put to good.” A day later, a trusted colleague who was there called me with a crazy idea: Would I consider representing Ukrainian citizens injured or killed by Russian drone and missile attacks? Research provided by the State Capture Accountability Project suggested that American chip suppliers had exported the guidance chips enabling Russian drone and missiles to hit their targets.

A month of subsequent research and diligence confirmed my worst fears.

My Five Favorite Books: Shamoil Shipchandler

When I set out to write this column, I thought about all the ways in which I’d try to impress you. Law is, after all, a see-and-be-seen profession! Perhaps I’d start with William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and its dense stream-of-consciousness prose (I can’t stand it). Or the scope and cultural impact of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (I couldn’t get through it). Or maybe I’d do something unexpected about influential children’s books and write about Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree (a truly awful, dreadful thing – I won’t be taking any questions at this time).

But what I kept coming back to was something that plays a huge role in my personal and professional life: humor. So, I chose five books that never fail to make me laugh.

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