Federal wage-and-hour suits have been steadily declining since the first half of 2020, when suits rose 19% from pre-pandemic days. And federal employment-discrimination lawsuits filed in Texas under Title VII were also down. Many factors may be at work, including the pandemic, recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and the backlog of government agencies that oversee the litigation.
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Labor and Employment Partner Laterals to Crawford Wishnew Lang
Camille Avant, the fifth partner to join CWL, said there is no better way for her to take the next step in her career than to join the “up-and-coming” Dallas litigation boutique.
Fifth Circuit Judge Ho Defends Legal Scholar Who Said a ‘Lesser Black Woman’ Might Join SCOTUS
Judge James Ho said he was scheduled to talk about originalism on Tuesday at Georgetown University, but instead decided to talk about the libertarian scholar Ilya Shapiro, who came under fire for recent comments on President Biden’s pledge to appoint a black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“I would submit that, if I were a law student today, and I strongly disagreed with remarks made by someone who had just recently been hired by my law school, the last thing I would do is to call for that person to be fired,” Ho said.
$26M Insurance Claim: Fraud ‘So Obvious,’ or Investigation Not ‘Indisputable’
The plaintiff’s attorney, Mikal C. Watts, on cross-examination of the insurers’ lead witness, attacked his investigator’s thoroughness and his conclusions as hardly indisputable.
M&A Oil & Gas Experts Expect More Deals Despite Rising Oil Prices
Four oil and gas partners weigh in on whether continued elevated oil prices will lead to more deal activity in the upstream and midstream sectors.
Fort Worth Bankruptcy Judge Hears Details of $33M Elevate Credit Settlement
The multistate predatory lending and fraud litigation pitting more than a million low-income plaintiffs against two Fort Worth financial tech companies – Think Finance and Elevate Credit – is in “its final chapter,” lawyers told a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Harlan Hale Wednesday. Elevate agreed to pay $33 million to settle three class actions and an adversarial bankruptcy complaint that alleged a decadelong scheme of predatory lending and subsequent corporate transactional legal maneuvering that claimed victims in nearly every state.
CDT Roundup: 12 Deals, 10 Firms, 73 Lawyers, $2.3B
According to a report by Bain, the consulting firm, healthcare M&A was up by 16% in 2021 by volume but also up by 44% in value. The same can be said in Texas where healthcare deals proved both plentiful and interesting. More on that and the transactions reported last week in this latest CDT Roundup.
Madison Dearborn Agrees to Dole Out $1.8B in Cash for MoneyGram
Vinson & Elkins advised the Dallas company after its $1.2 billion sale to Hong Kong-based Ant Financial in 2018 was blocked by U.S. regulators (the firm counseled on that deal, too).
NAESB Force Majeure Provisions After Winter Storm Uri: Key Considerations for Legal Departments
Last year saw a flurry of litigation in Texas state and federal courts arising from the February 2021 extreme cold weather event known as Winter Storm Uri and whether it constituted a force majeure event under the terms of natural gas contracts. With the one-year anniversary of Winter Storm Uri upon us, and with many of these cases still winding their way through the courts, prudent players within the natural gas supply chain should conduct a review of their natural gas contracts to prepare for future adverse weather events. There are key considerations legal departments in the natural gas sector must consider when reviewing their company’s NAESB contracts.
Norton Rose Fulbright Beefs Up Corporate Practice in Houston
John Bakht has previously served as general counsel at BJ Services and CARBO Ceramics and spent more than a decade at Baker Hughes.