Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
Today, in observance of Sept. 11, 2001, Bank of America lawyers are hosting its global Wills for Heroes event. In Dallas, lawyers from Bradley and Haynes Boone are volunteering alongside the Bank of America attorneys at the Dallas Police Department headquarters to draft wills and estate planning documents for members of the DPD and Dallas Fire-Rescue.
Plus, the details on the historic Rural Justice Initiative.
Space Exploration Technologies filed suit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Grimes County over a public records request.
The suit filed Tuesday before Travis County Judge Aurora Martinez Jones focuses on four Texas Public Information Act requests. SpaceX claims one request was withdrawn before a ruling was issued, and another request did not include any documents regarding the company.
Baker Botts announced leadership appointments touching energy, infrastructure and tax.
Canadian energy infrastructure pipeline company Enbridge said on Sept. 9 that it has acquired the crude oil business of Tallgrass Energy for $2.55 billion cash. Sidley, Sullivan & Cromwell and V&E advised on the deal.
Mike Androvett was making pretty good money as an investigative TV reporter for NBC 5 in Dallas in 1995 when he decided to start his own media consulting business advising lawyers.
“My hope was to get a client or two and just figure out a way to make a living,” he said in a recent interview.
Thirty-one years later, Androvett Legal Media is the largest and most dominant player in Texas legal public relations today with 20 employees and offices in DFW, Austin, Houston and San Antonio.
No legal journalist has been more respected in Texas during the past thirty years than Mary Flood. A former reporter with The Wall Street Journal and the Houston Chronicle, Flood covered some of the most important legal matters of this generation, including the trials involving the Enron scandal.
In 2010, Flood retired from The Chronicle and joined Androvett Legal Media — a move Androvett said was “one of my smartest moves ever.”
In this Q&A with The Texas Lawbook, Flood discusses working with Androvett when she was a reporter and for the past 16 years as an advisor and consultant.
In this edition of Asked & Answered, Johnston Tobey Baruch managing shareholder Chad Baruch shares his experience representing hip-hop artists in an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court and highlights a surge in Texas mandamus practice. He also shares his top brief-writing tips and pet peeves.
During a hearing Wednesday morning, a lawyer for the U.S. Trustee reiterated arguments to Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Eduardo V. Rodriguez explaining why the watchdog has standing to obtain the relief it seeks via vacatur motions filed in the Jackson Walker fee dispute.
McCall Grimes worked on several deals with Winstead leaders George Kraft and Jeff Matthews in his four and a half years as the top lawyer at the Houston-based family-owned real estate and development firm. He said Winstead was the obvious choice to land back in private practice.
Pillsbury’s latest partner addition in Texas came Wednesday morning, as the firm announced that Valeska Pederson Hintz has joined its Emerging Companies and Venture Capital as a partner in the Austin office.
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