Election season at the State Bar of Texas ends today. The campaign has inspired a clash that has been full of sound and fury. The question is whether it actually means anything. As former bar president W. Frank Newton notes: “Some very smart people – lawyers who are very gifted – ought to know better than fool themselves into thinking that this is all terribly important.” Natalie Posgate has the story.
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Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 7 Firms and 88 TX Lawyers Advise on 8 Deals Worth $14.25B
There weren’t as many deals this week as last week, but they amounted to a whole lot more and involved a lot more Texas lawyers, with mergers and big asset purchases among the highlights.
State Bar Names Chair-Elect of Board of Directors
Laura Gibson, a past president of the Houston Bar Association, will take office at the State Bar’s Annual Meeting in June.
West & Associates Adds Houston Partner
Edgardo Colón is a former senior counsel at global engineering construction company Bechtel Corp.
Baker Donelson Mints New Shareholder in Houston
Daniel Ferretti has been involved with several energy company bankruptcies in Houston.
Polsinelli Shareholder Allen Dickey Named Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation
Dickey, a SMU Dedman School of Law graduate, is in Polsinelli’s real estate finance practice group.
SCOTX Tosses $416K Verdict Against Oncor
The Texas Supreme Court tossed out a $416,000 jury verdict against Oncor Electric citing the failure of the plaintiff, Chaparral Energy, to take its initial complaint to the Public Utility Commission. The court ruled that PUC’s “pervasive regulatory scheme” gives it the exclusive jurisdiction to resolve disputes over such regulated services. Janet Elliott has the details.
Texas Legacy Firms Search for Growth – or At Least Stability
© 2018 The Texas Lawbook. By Mark Curriden (April 30) — Amid all the fuss and flurry of national corporate law firms opening new offices in Texas and spate of
Yearning For Zion: A Massive Child Custody Case Remembered 10 Years After
Ten years ago, Carmen Dusek found herself square in the middle of the largest child custody case ever litigated. The case involved charges of child abuse and rape in a remote compound run fundamentalist religious sect run by Warren Jeffs whose Biblical beliefs included a particularly strident form of polygamy. The case came to include scores of lawyers who volunteered from afar to assure adequate legal representation for some 400 children. She recalls the pride and disappointment to Janet Elliott in The Texas Lawyer.
Updated: 5th Circuit Voids $502M Jury Verdict Against J&J in Hip Implant Case
Citing substantial errors by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade and inappropriate and unequivocally deceptive conduct by Texas plaintiff’s attorney Mark Lanier, the federal appeals court has reversed a Dallas jury’s $502 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson in the hip implant litigation.