The past six months have been a whirlwind for Baron Oursler. He played a critical role in the sale of his employer, FleetPride, to a New York private equity firm. His wife gave birth to their first child, who was born six weeks prematurely and spent a month in the hospital. And he recently started a new job as GC of Worldwide Flight Services. The Texas Lawbook has the inside details.
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Dallas Court of Appeals Issues Rare Majority, Concurring and Dissenting Opinions
The Dallas-based Fifth Court of Appeals issued a remarkable en banc decision this week. It involved majority, concurring and dissenting opinions on a matter of appellate procedure. But more importantly it may be the first significant signal that last year’s dramatic election swing is going to have an effect on the direction of the court.
Two ACC-DFW Members Win Global Award … and One gets a New Job
For the first time, members of the DFW Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel – J.C. Penney Senior Counsel April Goff and Pinnacle Group GC Erin Stewart – have been named Top 10 30-Somethings by the global group of in-house lawyers. One of them starts a new job this week.
DBJ: AT&T fails to get cryptocurrency case thrown out as plaintiff puts loss at $24M
A federal judge has turned downed the company’s push to get a case thrown out, in part, from an AT&T customer, according to a court filing earlier this month. Brian Womack of the Dallas Business Journal has the details.
Federal Home Loan Bank Officials Plead Guilty in $1.2M Scheme
Three former executives of the Federal Home Loan Bank in Dallas – including its ex-president – have pleaded guilty to charges that they conspired to make false statements and filed bogus reimbursement requests to the government-sponsored mortgage lender in a $1.2 million fraudulent scam.
CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 13 Firms, 125 Lawyers, $11.8B
Energy M&A isn’t the only market that’s gone torpid. According to Drillinginfo, public equity and debt offerings raised only $16.9 billion in the second quarter, down more than a third from this time last year. Claire Poole has the numbers underlying those numbers, along with a slightly more optimistic CDT Roundup of Texas activity.
Telemarketers, and Scammers and Robocallers, Oh My!
We’ve arrived at a breaking point: Everyone is receiving robocalls, the laws are not working, legitimate businesses are being ruined by runaway litigation, and, worst of all, virtually no illegal telemarketers, scammers or robocallers are being stopped. Though it is unclear what, if any, law or laws will be passed in the near future, one thing is certain: robocalls are squarely in the crosshairs of the Congress, the FCC and consumers. If and when change comes, will it be enough or will technology once again outpace lawmaking?
Paul Yetter: A Brown-bagging, Bus-riding, Billion-dollar-case-winning Trial Lawyer
At a young age for such things Paul Yetter found himself pitted against some of the top litigators in the country – the Joe Jamails and David Boieses. Like many of his clients knew or soon learned, this native son of Texas was more than comfortable among them. Litigation writer Natalie Posgate has the story of Yetter and Yetter Coleman, the Houston firm he founded “with no plan or forethought.”
Kirkland Leads Texas M&A H1 Rankings…By Far
M&A activity involving Texas companies may have declined during the first six months of 2019, but the slump has not impacted the corporate transactional machine that is Kirkland & Ellis. The Texas Lawbook has exclusive Mergermarket data ranking the top 30 law firms representing Texas businesses in dealmaking.
Mergermarket: Texas M&A Plummeted in H1 2019
If you’ve been paying attention to M&A numbers in recent weeks, you already know this: compared to last year, the first half of 2019 has been lackluster. Deal count is down. Deal values are down. “Exceedingly cautious,” is the way one lawyer describes the market. Claire Poole bears the bad news from our exclusive Mergermarket data.