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Fifth Circuit: Context Matters in Review of Workplace Rules Under NLRA

In a recent decision, the Fifth Circuit overturned much of a National Labor Relations Board holding that several workplace conduct rules at T-Mobile and MetroPCS violated employee rights under the Act. The court clarified the standard for reviewing Board findings, stating that a “reasonable employee” will interpret workplace rules in light of “the everydayness of [the] job” rather than how they might impact protected activities.

August 21, 2017 Mark Curriden

Houston Trial Lawyer Paul Yetter Inducted as IATL Fellow

IATL has an exclusive membership of 500 U.S. trial lawyers.

August 21, 2017 Mark Curriden

State Bar Receives ABA Partnership Award

The State Bar of Texas recently announced that it has won a national award from the American Bar Association for its Texas Minority Counsel Program (TMCP).

August 21, 2017 Mark Curriden

$3.8B Energy Merger = Lots of Texas Lawyers & Financial Advisers Billing Hours

More than 50 lawyers from five different law firms – Bracewell, Haynes and Boone, Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins – are representing clients in the $3.8 billion merger this week of Silver Run Acquisitions II with Alta Mesa Holdings and Kingfisher Midstream. The financial advisers include Barclays, Tudor, Pickering, Holt, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan. The Texas Lawbook has the details.

August 17, 2017 Mark Curriden

Transocean Turns to King & Spalding for $3.4B Acquisition

Transocean GC Brady Long selected King & Spalding as the company’s lead U.S. legal adviser on its $3.4 billion purchase of Norway’s Songa Offshore announced Tuesday – a deal characterized as the biggest offshore drilling sector merger since oil prices collapsed in 2014.

August 16, 2017 Claire Poole

HayBoo Leads $820M Dickies Deal

Fort Worth-based Williamson-Dickie turned to its long-time outside counsel Haynes and Boone to advise the family-owned workwear maker in its $820 million sale to branded lifestyle apparel manufacturer VF Corporation of North Carolina.

August 16, 2017 Mark Curriden

Why Pro Bono? The Payoff is Helping Others

Lawyers and firms often engage with causes by providing their services pro bono. It’s a way of giving back to the community and of strengthening ties to places where the ordinary course of business may not lead. And sometimes, those causes can make a positive impact on both the lives of individuals and the community at large. This story is one such example.

August 15, 2017 Mark Curriden

Oilfield Services Continue to Consolidate with Nabors Acquisition

The consolidation oilfield services continues with Nabors Industries acquisition of Tesco Corp. Norton Rose Fulbright helped make it happen. Details in The Texas Lawbook.

August 14, 2017 Claire Poole

AK, Bracewell, Gibson Dunn and V&E Lead Week of M&A and Capital Markets

Midstream and infrastructure oil and gas deals stood out among the transactions of note this week. Lawyers from Andrews Kurth, Gibson, Dunn, Bracewell and Vinson and Elkins were in the thick of things. See who they are and what they did The Texas Lawyer.

August 14, 2017 Claire Poole

Updated – Texas General Counsel Pay Summary

Corporate Counsel magazine has identified the top 150 best paid corporate general counsel and a dozen work at Texas-based companies made the list, including the top legal officers at Baker Hughes, iHeartMedia, Yum!Brands and nine energy companies.

August 14, 2017 Mark Curriden

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  • P.S. — Pro Bono Work Honored at State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting - Advancing access to justice in rural Texas, advocating for domestic violence survivors and ensuring Spanish speakers aren’t left out are among the pro bono initiatives for which lawyers and a judge were honored during the State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting in San Antonio.   July 4, 2025Krista Torralva

GCs, Lawyers & Firms

  • Willkie Adds Blake Winburne to its Houston Office - Winburne was global head of the energy and infrastructure group at Orrick where he worked for more than nine years. He has been named co-chair of Willkie's energy and infrastructure practice.
  • Hines CLO Joins Greenberg Traurig in Houston
  • Thomas Verity Vaults to Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Veteran Houston Partner Jumps from Latham to Simpson
  • Skadden Hires Two M&A Partners from White & Case
  • V&E Adds Three Partners: Two from Kirkland, One from Baker Botts
  • Houston Texans Associate GC Jumps to Munsch Hardt
  • Gray Reed Hires Longtime Houston Exec to Lead Operations and Growth
  • Sorrels Law Adds Trial, Appellate Partner in Dallas
  • Holland & Knight’s Recent Lateral Partner Additions Strengthen RE, Financial Services Offerings
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Barry Barnett
Wes Bearden
Emily Westridge Black
Michael Burke
Alicia Campbell
John Campbell
Madeleine Carpenter
Alexander Clark
Dawn Pittman Collins
Richard Finneran
Elizabeth Freeman
David Gail
Elizabeth Gibson
David Jones
Frank Lopez
Abbe Lowell
Neal Manne
Billy Marsh
Tom Melsheimer
Tasha Moser
Justin Nelson
Reed O'Connor
Kate Pennartz
John “J.” Pieratt
Danielle Reyes
Christopher Richardson
Randy Sorrels
Harry Susman
Larry Vincent
Victor Vital
Brent Walker
Matt Weybrecht
Melody Wilkinson
Alex Wolens

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A&O Shearman
Bryan Cave
Cozen O'Connor
Haynes Boone
Holland & Knight
Jackson Walker
King & Spalding
Kirkland & Ellis
Law Office of Liz Freeman
Paul Hastings
Porter Hedges
Sorrels Law
Susman Godfrey
Toyota
Troutman Pepper Locke
Willkie
Vinson & Elkins
Weil
Winston & Strawn

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