The lawyer, who spent 26 years at Locke Lord, has been busy on the deals front this year.
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Waco Jury Denies Infringement on Halliburton Patents in Fracking Case
In an ongoing case involving numerous lawsuits and counterclaims, a jury in the court of U.S. District Judge Alan D. Albright finds that Halliburton did not prove its patents for electronic fracking of oil and gas wells were infringed upon.
P.S. — Fentanyl Education, September Legal Clinics, Hispanic Law Scholarships
This week’s edition of P.S. features details on a recent scholarship awards luncheon in Houston benefitting Hispanic law students and recognizing several public service pioneers, an upcoming online program hosted by the Dallas Bar Association that will educate the public on the fetanyl crisis at a local level, and September dates for the DBA’s DVAP pro bono legal clinics.
Corporate Policies on the Use of AI Tools: A Q&A with Yokogawa’s George Niño
While this exciting new AI technology is at the core of several useful applications, it is still developing and can provide inaccurate results. The use of these AI tools by companies also raises a number of legal, ethical, privacy and security risks. George Niño, the general counsel and corporate secretary for two Yokogawa companies, in this Q&A goes behind the scenes of the development of Yokogawa’s corporate AI policy.
Fifth Circuit Judge Ho Sounds Off on ‘Officials Abusing our Criminal Justice System to Punish Political Adversaries’
In a dissent from a denial of rehearing en banc, Judge James C. Ho pointed to two other recently decided cases to illustrate his argument that First Amendment protections are being eroded for those who live in the Fifth Circuit’s jurisdiction. He decried circuit precedent that has kept free speech cases from making it to trial.
DEI Initiatives Challenged at Law Firms with Two New Lawsuits
After weeks of chatter, law firms have officially been roped into the legal battle over corporate diversity hiring initiatives following the aftermath of the SFFA v. Harvard Supreme Court decision that banned race-based affirmative action in higher education. The same plaintiff behind that case has now sued Perkins Coie and Morrison Foerster, which both operate in Texas. Natalie Posgate dissects the facts and details known about the litigation so far.
Update: Simon Greenstone Panatier Bilked Out of $1.48M by Former Controller
After initially entering a not guilty plea last year, Christiane Kathleen Irwin on Tuesday pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud. The government accused her of inflating her $140,000 salary at Simon Greenstone Panatier when she submitted biweekly payroll, taking home an extra $1.48 million over three years.
CDT Roundup: 19 Deals, 13 Firms, 213 Lawyers, $11.5B
Who are the leading law firms in global M&A? Not necessarily who you thought they were. This week’s CDT Roundup features the top-ranked M&A firms in a recent PitchBook list for Q2. There’s that, and the usual listing of Texas deals reported last week, led by three deals of more than $1 billion, including a $7.2 billion bolt-on acquisition by Energy Transfer.
Litigation Roundup: Southwest Attorneys Get Pause on ‘Religious Liberty’ Training, SCOTX Sets Oral Arguments in Harris County Election Administration Fight
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Southwest Airlines’ attorneys get a temporary stay of an order that they undergo religious liberty training, the Texas Supreme Court declines to grant Harris County emergency relief in its lawsuit over a new law that abolishes the county’s office of election administration, and the full Fifth Circuit revived a lawsuit brought by female Dallas County jailers alleging sex discrimination.
SCOTUS to Take Up Non-Consensual Third-Party Releases in Bankruptcy
The U.S. Supreme Court recently entered a short order that may later be seen as one of the final steps toward definitively addressing a bankruptcy issue that has bedeviled both lawyers and courts for decades.