Texas trial lawyers Mike Slack and Ladd Sanger are among an elite tier of attorneys who are experts in aviation law and whose work has made commercial and private aviation safer for the masses. They recently sat down with The Texas Lawbook to discuss their career paths and what keeps them going.
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CDT Roundup: 11 Deals, 10 Firms, 102 Lawyers, $2.8B
Maybe you haven’t heard of ProFrac; but you probably should. The company’s been on an acquisition tear of late, gobbling up producers of pumps and proppants at an eye-popping rate. CDT Roundup has their latest deals — and the lawyers and firms that advised them, along with the usual roster of last week’s transactions.
Forging a New Path: From the Federal Bench to ADR
Former federal judge Vanessa Gilmore, now a mediator, arbitrator and special master at JAMS, visited with The Lawbook about her career, the developments she anticipates in alternative dispute resolution and the legacy projects she is working on to pave the way for Houston’s future leaders.
Litigation Roundup: AT&T Hit With $166M Patent Infringement Verdict, Texas Med Schools Sued Over Affirmative Action Practices
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, a team from Susman Godfrey secures a $166 million patent win against AT&T and Nokia, the Texas Supreme Court sides with insurance companies in a dispute brought by emergency room doctors over out-of-network reimbursement payments and the Fifth Circuit chides an attorney’s litigation tactic.
Bruce Wark: ‘No shortage of stories, trying times, hard fought cases’
Bruce Wark, Deputy General Counsel American Airlines For their work at American Airlines, colleagues Charlene Wandrisco and Bruce Wark are recipients of the 2022 DFW Corporate Counsel Award for Senior Counsel
Royal Furgeson, DBA’s 2023 MLK Justice Award Recipient: ‘As Lawyers, Equal Justice Is Central to Our Very Being’
On Monday, Royal Furgeson, retired federal judge and founding dean of the UNT Dallas College of Law, received the Dallas Bar Association’s 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. Justice Award. In his acceptance speech, Judge Furgeson talked about the special duty of lawyers to carry on King’s work. Read the full text exclusively here.
Charlene Wandrisco: ‘You get jet fuel in the blood’
Charlene Wandrisco, Managing Director and Senior Counsel American Airlines For their work at American Airlines, colleagues Charlene Wandrisco and Bruce Wark are recipients of the 2022 DFW Corporate Coursel Award for
Q&A: Charlene Wandrisco of American Airlines
Charlene Wandrisco and Bruce Wark have been named co-recipients of this year’s competition for Senior Counsel of the Year for large firms by the DFW Chapter of Association of Corporate Counsel and The Texas Lawbook.
Lawbook founder Mark Curriden had a chance to discuss with Wandrisco her standards for hiring outside counsel, the legal profession’s diversity problem and her best day ever at American Airlines.
SAExploration Sues Auditor for Malpractice, Negligence, Seeks $45M
Houston oilfield services corporation SAExploration is suing its long-time former auditor for allegedly failing to detect a $100 million fraud scheme operated by the company’s former top executives for several years. SAE accuses Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas of negligence, malpractice and “dereliction of duty” that resulted in SAE being forced into bankruptcy, subjected to multiple federal investigations, being delisted by Nasdaq and targeted for class action lawsuits.
A Word with Human Trafficking Institute’s Victor Boutros
Victor Boutros knew he wanted to devote his legal career to combatting human trafficking before he even got to law school. Now more than two decades later, after working in private practice, serving as a federal prosecutor and writing a book, Boutros leads the Human Trafficking Institute, which partners with foreign governments to help them implement trafficking enforcement systems.
The Texas Lawbook recently sat down with Boutros and will cover a CLE later today in Dallas about human trafficking trends and updates and how lawyers can get involved. More details, including how to register, in this article.