The Texas Lawbook visited with Baldinger, who was previously the co-chair of DLA Piper’s energy practice, about how much of his energy practice has shifted to renewables work.
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Q&A with Recent GT Real Estate Shareholder Additions in Dallas
The Texas Lawbook caught up with Ashley Aten and Austin Wyker, both formerly of Munsch Hardt, about why they moved and what they are seeing in their practices.
Texas M&A Lawyers Look Ahead: More of the Same, Maybe
This week, The Texas Lawbook published new Corporate Deal Tracker data showing M&A lawyers were busier during the first six months of 2022 than they have ever been. The article quoted several of the state’s leading dealmakers on the trends they saw during H1 2022. Now, we asked those same M&A lawyers to look into their crystal balls for the second half of the year? The bottom line: Opinions differed.
Watermelon Display Injury Verdict Wiped Out on Appeal, New Trial Ordered
Roel Canales will get another shot at proving Pay and Save was negligent in the way it displayed watermelons. But the Fourth Court of Appeals panel said the evidence supporting the gross negligence claim was too weak and ordered Canales take nothing on that claim.
In Competition Suit That Sought $41M, Dallas County Jury Awards $120K
Alston & Bird attorneys representing Boral Windows got a ruling that ensured the jury never got to consider counterclaims seeking $100 million in damages against its client. And Don Godwin batted back Boral’s bid for about $41 million in damages against his client, who sold his company to Boral.
Houston PE Lawyer Jumps to O’Melveny
With the move Garrett Johnston is reuniting with former colleagues Angela Olivarez, Steven Torello and Ryan Cicero.
Charter/Spectrum Hit With Staggering $7B in Punitive Damages in 2019 Murder of 83-year-old Cable Customer
A Dallas County jury deliberated less than two hours before finding that the cable giant was liable for the exemplary damages on top of an earlier verdict of $375 million in actual damages.
WDTX Chief Judge: “Equitably Distribute” Waco Patent Cases to All Judges
The Waco patent rocket docket days may be over. WDTX Chief Judge Orlando Garcia issued an order Monday that requires that all new patent infringement lawsuits filed in the Waco Division be immediately assigned randomly to the district’s 12 federal judges. The order seems designed to end Judge Alan Albright’s three-year run as the federal judge handling the most patent cases in the U.S. The patent litigation bar is speaking out and they are not happy about the new order. The Texas Lawbook has the details.
DBJ: Former Gibson Dunn Lawyer Named Vistra’s CFO
For the past five years Kris Moldovan has served as senior vice president and treasurer at Vistra.
Litigation Roundup: Opioids, Psilocybin & (Alleged) Legal Malpractice
This week of the Litigation Roundup features a settlement, an attorney’s fees award and three new lawsuits. The litigation features a deceased Houston Rockets scout, a disabled NFL player, a Houston DEA agent who won awards for putting pill-pushing doctors in jail, the founder of a well-known Dallas hedge fund and a Houston litigation boutique’s role in a Freedom of Information Act request involving the clinical use of magic mushrooms in Washington state.
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