Dallas attorney Larry Friedman filed a lawsuit Wednesday attempting to block the North Carolina-based developer of the Toyota Music Factory from receiving $44 million in public money. Friedman filed on behalf of an Irving taxpayer advocacy group, alleging that Charlotte-based ARK Group cut corners during construction to gain certificates of occupancy by certain deadlines. Bill Hethcott of The Dallas Business Journal has the story.
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(June 7) – There was a surprise sale this week. Devon Energy sold all of its interests in publicly-traded EnLink Midstream Partners LP and EnLink Midstream LLC to Global Infrastructure Partners for $3.12 billion. Perhaps not surprising, Texas attorneys from three different firms were involved. Claire Poole has the names.
Baylor Law School Announces Newly-Endowed Chair
Baylor Law School has named Professor Elizabeth Miller the inaugural chairholder of the newly-created M. Stephen and Alyce A. Beard Chair in Business and Transactional Law.
Baker Botts Partner Wins State Bar Pro Bono Coordinator Award
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State Bar Litigation Section to Recognize Dallas Court of Appeals Chief Justice Carolyn Wright as Texas Legal Legend
The Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas will induct Chief Justice Wright as a Texas Legal Legend at the State Bar’s Annual Meeting in Houston on June 21.
Corporate Deal Tracker Weekly Roundup: 10 Firms, 88 Texas Lawyers, 13 Deals, $14.5B
Right in step with the Texas weather, dealmaking heated up last week. There were 13 transactions announced worth $14.5 billion, still 29 percent below the year’s high of $20.4 billion. The activity involved 88 Texas lawyers and 10 different firms.
Senate Approves Rodriguez Judicial Nomination 96-0
Another vacant Texas judicial seat was filled Tuesday when the U.S. Senate voted 96-0 to approve the nomination of human rights lawyer and advocate Fernando Rodriguez, Jr. as a district judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District.
Texas Firms Advise in Osprey-Blackstone Eagle Ford Shale Deal
(June 5) – In a complex transaction with Blackstone-backed Royal Resources, Osprey Energy Acquisition Corp. purchased properties in the “core-of-the-core” of the Eagle Ford shale play, a deal which would value a newly-named company at $894 million. Claire Poole explains.
McGinnis Lochridge to Launch Dallas Office
The legacy Austin law firm has tapped a former Haynes and Boone labor and employment partner to open the firm’s fourth office.
It is the latest move in a year of growth for McGinnis Lochridge. Overall, the firm has added 16 attorneys in 2018.
Large Texas Corporate Law Firm in Merger Talks with Troutman Sanders
Two large, corporate southern law firms – Dallas-based Winstead and Atlanta-based Troutman Sanders – are involved in merger discussions, The Texas Lawbook has learned.