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The Texas Lawbook Supports Education is Freedom and Dallas’ Brightest Scholars
Education is Freedom works to ensure that students from school districts in the Dallas area have a roadmap to complete high school and access college. EIF’s programs can help improve the diversity of the legal industry pipeline.
Federal Trade Secrets Bill May Offer Little Relief to Industries in Texas
Congress last week passed the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), a bill that many believe shows promise as a useful tool for companies in combatting trade secret misappropriation. President Obama is expected to sign the DTSA into law. But legal experts say companies in Texas may do better seeking relief in state court. This article examines the new bill.
Weil Advises Oracle on Two Deals Worth $1.2B
Dallas partner Jim Griffin is co-leading two Weil deal teams that are advising Oracle’s $532 million acquisition of Opower and $663 million acquisition of Textura.
Update – Exclusive Data: Texas M&A & Securities Offerings Continue to Plunge in 2016
If merger and acquisition activity for Texas-based companies looked bad in 2015, it got even worse in the first three months of 2016.
Update – Exclusive Data: Texas M&A & Securities Offerings Continue to Plunge in 2016
If merger and acquisition activity for Texas-based companies looked bad in 2015, it got even worse in the first three months of 2016.
Tom Vick Elected State Bar President
Nearly 18,000 lawyers in the State Bar of Texas voted to elect family lawyer Tom Vick of Weatherford as the next president-elect of the State Bar of Texas. Meanwhile, the Texas Young Lawyers Association elected Baili Rhodes of College Station to serve as its president from June 2017 to June 2018.
Sympathy for the Plaintiff: 5th Circuit Relaxing Twombly Pleading Standards?
The Fifth Circuit recently reversed the dismissal on the pleadings of a products liability claim, noting the difficulties faced by plaintiffs who lack access to critical information in the defendants’ files.
Austin Judge Hits Former La Grange Antiques Dealer with $1.3M Judgment – Updated
A Travis County judge on Monday awarded $1.3 million to two Santa Fe antique dealers who lost a significant amount of their jewelry collection to consignment fraud by a La Grange woman.
Dallas Jury Awards $10.9 million to Two Choctaw Nation Charter Bus Crash Victims
A jury ruled Monday that the Choctaw Nation should pay nearly $11 million to the families of two victims who died in a charter bus crash in Irving three years ago while on their way to the Choctaw Casino in Durant, Oklahoma. The verdict is a big win for plaintiff’s lawyer Frank Branson, but defense attorney Tom Fee argues his client will be successful on appeal.