The rise of the U.S. global LNG export sector is a remarkable one: from essentially zero in 2015 to a position of global leadership in less than a decade. The Texas-Louisiana-Mississippi Gulf Coast has transformed into an epicenter for super-chilled natural gas bound for Europe and Asia. The CDT Roundup this week takes a closer look at a couple of news items that suggest the short-term future could be a bit bumpier than expected. And, as always, there were deals reported last week. We have the firms and the lawyers behind them.
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O’Melveny Hires Away Winston & Strawn’s Houston Litigation Head
Denise Scofield joined O’Melveny’s Houston office Tuesday. Scofield, previously a partner and head of the Houston litigation practice at Winston & Strawn, discussed what attracted her to O’Melveny in an interview with The Texas Lawbook.
Cozen O’Connor Adds Dallas Patent Litigator
Bradley Liddle, a former aerospace engineer, was previously a partner at Carter Arnett Bennett & Perez.
Texas Obtains $1.4B Settlement From Meta over Facial Recognition Data
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Tuesday’s settlement is the largest ever obtained by an attorney general in a privacy case. This is the first lawsuit brought and settlement reached under Texas’ Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier, the AG added.
Litigation Roundup: Fifth Circuit Judge Calls for Overturning Precedent in Law Firm’s Fight with Ex-Associate
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, we detail a case where an intermediate appellate court seems dubious about a real estate developer’s claim that he missed a deadline to appeal because he suffered a stroke, Southwest Airlines is hit with a suit over an alleged in-flight sexual assault, and a woman accused of stealing more than $100 million from the government goes to prison.
Business Court Clauses: Contracts Are Key to Securing Business Court Jurisdiction
Many people know that Texas’s new system of business courts opens in September. What they may not know is how, er, nuanced business court jurisdiction is. There are, however, two steps every company may take now to ensure they may invoke business court jurisdiction later. Of course, anyone wishing to avoid business court jurisdiction should simply apply Costanza’s razor and “do the opposite.”
The Corporate Client: Sumitomo’s Cindy Dinh is Rookie of the Year
The daughter of Vietnamese refugees, Cindy Dinh was on a proverbial seesaw about going to law school when she did a mock trial for her intro to law class at Rice University on whether a person with limited English proficiency properly waived his Miranda rights.
“This was a topic that spoke to me, since I empathized with how difficult it can be for English-language learners to navigate central aspects of society, including the legal system,” Dinh said. “I spent late nights and weekends on Westlaw and poured myself into this all-consuming project. I concluded that if I was so vested in this mock case, I might as well expend the same time and energy to advocate for others in real life.”
Dinh is now corporate counsel for the U.S. operations of Sumitomo Corporation, a four-centuries-old Japanese global sogo shosha trading giant, where she handled multimillion-dollar M&A deals, oversaw a litigation docket of million-dollar disputes and negotiated master service agreements.
Q&A: Cindy Dinh
Sumitomo’s Cindy Dinh shares what outside counsel need to know about her and her thoughts on DEI and public service.
Vital, NOG buy assets owned by Vortus-backed Point for $1.1B
Gibson Dunn advised Vital on the deal while Akin assisted Point and Vortus. Kirkland counseled NOG, its second joint acquisition with Vital in the Delaware Basin.
Casey’s to Acquire CEFCO Convenience Stores in $1.45B Deal
The all-cash transaction adds 148 stores in Texas and another 50 across Mississippi, Florida and Alabama. Paul Weiss, Cleary Gottlieb and Fort Worth’s Bourland, Wall & Wenzel advised.