Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman reminded lawyers and law students last week that in difficult times they are required, both by law and character, to defend the Rule of Law. Guzman spoke at the Dallas Hispanic Law Foundation’s 2019 Amanecer Luncheon honoring scholarship award winners. The Lawbook was there.
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Mike Gruber Receives 2019 ADL Jurisprudence Award
The Texas Lawbook has the transcript of Gruber’s acceptance remarks.
SCOTX Rejects Newspaper’s Libel Defenses Once Again
In a case closely-watched by Texas media groups, the Supreme Court of Texas has refused for the second time to dismiss a libel action against the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. The case is notable, not only for its 11-year history, but also for the failure of the defendants to secure traditional libel defenses.
Houston Energy Partner Joins Akin Gump
Matt Kapinos was previously deputy head of the McGuireWoods energy industry team.
KBR Lawyer Named President of the University of Houston Law Alumni Association
Victor Wright, a 1998 graduate, is a senior counsel of labor and employment law at KBR Inc.
Texas Pacific Land Trust Proxy Litigation Heats Up with Countersuit
A proxy battle unfolding in Dallas involving one of Texas’s largest landowners is getting uglier by the day. The latest development: a countersuit filed by a shareholder who might become Texas Pacific Land Trust’s newest trustee. Both sides say their courtroom opponent has unclean hands. And both sides have hired some of the best litigators in Dallas to fight it out. Natalie Posgate has the details.
Former Federal Prosecutor Joins Akerman’s Dallas Office
The first white collar criminal defense attorney in Akerman’s Dallas office, Ferdose al-Taie says her diversity of experience at the DOJ and SEC makes her a “one-stop shop” for clients navigating federal or state government investigations.
TechnipFMC’s Lisa Wang: From Scooping Ice Cream to Expertise on Multijurisdictional, Dually Traded Public Companies
Widely viewed as one of the brilliant young stars in the corporate in-house legal community, Lisa Wang played a leading role in the incredibly complex $13 billion merger of Houston-based FMC Technologies and Technip of Paris in 2017 and guided the newly formed company through a $460 million debt offering in 2018. The Texas Lawbook has an in-depth profile of Wang’s life and career.
T&K Names New Leaders of Dallas and Austin Offices
Phillip Oldham and Bruce Sostek will serve as the managing partners of the Austin and Dallas offices, respectively.
Dangerous Lesson from Forest Park Trial Fallout: Defense Lawyers Proffer at their own Peril in the Northern District of Texas
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in North Texas is moving full steam ahead with a new proffer agreement policy effectively muzzling a defendant at trial. The new language binds both the defendant and her attorney and the Fifth Circuit seems poised to rule that proffer statements are admissible in the government’s case-in-chief. Only one strategy for defense attorneys is clear then – proffer at your peril.