The Austin Bar Association honored Gardere partner Fred Sultan with the Outstanding Director Award for the 2012-2013 bar year at the group’s Annual Board Reception. The award recognizes Sultan’s leadership
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Federal Civil Jury Trials Decline to New Lows
Federal Appeals Judge Pat Higginbotham warned lawyers and federal judges in 1997 that civil jury trials were headed to extinction. Most lawyers and judges scoffed. After all, no state in the country trusted citizen juries to resolve personal and business disputes more than Texas. During the 16 years since Judge Higginbotham’s warning, civil jury trials have plummeted to historic 40 year lows.
“The reduction in jury trials isn’t about the empty courthouse,” Judge Higginbotham says. “it is about the alienation of the people from the process. The jury system is about governance.”
Winners and More Winners at DFW GC Forum Golf Tourney
It was a hot day, but a cool event, for participants in the annual golf tournament of the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the General Counsel Forum. One stroke separated the first place team of GCs from Charles River Associates and Bell Helicopter and the second place team sponsored by Precision Discovery. FlexJet’s Amanda Willis took the prize for the longest drive. Although no one hit a hole-in-one and won the Model S Tesla, a good time was had by all.
American Airlines Names Post Merger VP Over Legal and Regulatory Affairs
Long-time AA General Counsel Gary Kennedy is leaving after nearly three decades working in the airlines’ corporate legal department. AA CEO-in-waiting Doug Parker announced that his current executive vice president for corporate and government affairs at US Airways Group, Steve Johnson, will oversee the company’s legal and regulatory affairs.
Girl Scouts of NE Texas Names T&K’s Elizabeth Schartz Secretary of Board of Directors
Elizabeth Schartz, partner in Thompson & Knight’s Dallas office and chair of the firm’s employment and labor practice group, has been named secretary of the board of directors for the
Girl Scouts of NE Texas Names T&K’s Elizabeth Schartz Secretary of Board of Directors
Elizabeth Schartz, partner in Thompson & Knight’s Dallas office and chair of the firm’s employment and labor practice group, has been named secretary of the board of directors for the
HayBoo Receives Approval for Shanghai Office
China’s Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has granted official approval to Haynes and Boone to establish a representative office in Shanghai. The move would make sense as the firm already represents
Gardere Adds Public Law Partners Michael Stafford and Katharine David
Michael Stafford and Katharine David have jumped from Haynes and Boone to Gardere, joining the government affairs and condemnation/eminent domain practices respectively in the trial practice group as partners in
HayBoo Adds IP Lawyer David O’Brien
O’Brien says one of the most formative moments of his career came early when he fought on several battlefields in what became known as the Microprocessor Patent Wars
Baker & McKenzie Elects Amar Budarapu its Chair of North America Corporate & Securities Practice
The recently elected chair talks about how important Texas is to the firm’s corporate strategy.