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V&E Handles New Warburg Pincus Portfolio’s First Asset Acquisition

Fort Worth-based Chisolm, which formed this month, on Monday acquired a substantial amount of undeveloped acreage in the New Mexico region of the Delaware Basin from an undisclosed seller. More specifically, the acreage is located in the Bone Spring and Wolfcamp formations.

May 17, 2017 Mark Curriden

ACC-DFW & The Texas Lawbook Partner on Official Best Corporate Counsel Awards of 2017

The Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel announced Monday that it is officially partnering with The Texas Lawbook for the annual Best Corporate Counsel Awards of 2017. Each year, the ACC-DFW Chapter honors corporate in-house lawyers for their exceptional work and successes during the previous year.

“By teaming with The Texas Lawbook, we are taking the event to an all new level,” says ACC-DFW 1st Vice President David Kilpatrick, who is GC at EnvironX Solutions. Read for full details.

May 15, 2017 Mark Curriden

ACC-DFW & The Texas Lawbook Partner on Official Best Corporate Counsel Awards of 2017

The Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel announced Monday that it is officially partnering with The Texas Lawbook for the annual Best Corporate Counsel Awards of 2017. Each year, the ACC-DFW Chapter honors corporate in-house lawyers for their exceptional work and successes during the previous year.
“By teaming with The Texas Lawbook, we are taking the event to an all new level,” says ACC-DFW 1st Vice President David Kilpatrick, who is GC at EnvironX Solutions. Read for full details.

May 15, 2017 Mark Curriden

Patent Lit is AT&T Legal Team’s Specialty

Facing a mountain of patent infringement lawsuits, AT&T GC David McAtee created a specialized five lawyer group within the corporate legal department focusing exclusively on patent infringement litigation. The mission was twofold: enhance the ability to defend the company and reduce the attractiveness of AT&T as a target of frivolous lawsuits. The team is witnessing results, including overcoming the hesitancy of outside counsel to work so closely with the in-house team.

“An outside lawyer who doesn’t welcome this won’t remain our outside lawyer for very long,” says AT&T Assc. GC Neal Berinhout.

May 15, 2017 Mark Curriden

Patent Lit is AT&T Legal Team’s Specialty

Facing a mountain of patent infringement lawsuits, AT&T GC David McAtee created a specialized five lawyer group within the corporate legal department focusing exclusively on patent infringement litigation. The mission was twofold: enhance the ability to defend the company and reduce the attractiveness of AT&T as a target of frivolous lawsuits. The team is witnessing results, including overcoming the hesitancy of outside counsel to work so closely with the in-house team.
“An outside lawyer who doesn’t welcome this won’t remain our outside lawyer for very long,” says AT&T Assc. GC Neal Berinhout.

May 15, 2017 Mark Curriden

Andrews Kurth Helps Austin’s Owlchemy Labs Meet Google ‘IRL’

Austin-based video game developer Owlchemy Labs this week scored the gold mine that any tech startup looking for an exit would hope to score: an acquisition by Google, the mother of all tech giants. The score occurred not in one of the company’s state-of-the art games, but what gamers call “IRL” – “In Real Life.”

May 12, 2017 Mark Curriden

Mommy Helped Finance This Building

“Debt offerings of public securities happen when the market is favorable.  As a result, her schedule was heavy and hard to predict.  I had to learn to be an independent person and to do things on my own.”

May 11, 2017 Mark Curriden

My Mother Was My First Law School Teacher

“Playing a trivia game consisting of evidence objections is probably not a common thing to do with a 9- and 11-year-old.  But for my sister and me, who were growing up just as my mother was growing into a career as a civil trial lawyer, that is one of the ways we would spend our time during our car trips. Whether to Cedar Creek Lake to visit my grandparents or running errands around town, we were talking law.”

May 11, 2017 Mark Curriden

Lessons from Mom

“In our house growing up, productive was the mantra, as in: ‘Everyone must be productive and contribute.’ As a single mom, this was as much about necessity as it was about principle: if you didn’t cook dinner when it was your turn, there was no dinner.”  

May 11, 2017 Mark Curriden

Learning the Law from My Mom

“I prosecuted Goldilocks and prevailed. The jury found Goldilocks guilty; her punishment was to fix baby bear’s chair, make porridge for the bears, and six months of no TV.”

May 11, 2017 Mark Curriden

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    For three years now, The Texas Lawbook has covered the work of Texas lawyers — from law firm partners and associates to in-house counsel — who stepped forward on their own time and at their own expense to help others. 

    In 2025, Texas Lawbook pro bono, public service and diversity reporter Krista Torralva published 127 articles highlighting the pro bono and public service work of more than 400 Texas lawyers and firms.

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    January 9, 2026Mark Curriden & Derek Lipscombe
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    “Most of the successes of my group cannot be publicly celebrated because they are confidential,” Shipchandler told The Texas Lawbook. “For example, closing nonpublic regulatory investigations or securing millions of dollars in FINRA arbitration victories.”

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    January 7, 2026Mark Curriden

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  • Pro Bono Work Can be a Bulwark Against Burnout, Business Litigator Says in Return to Practice - There was a point in Jeffrey Price’s litigation career when he got a bad case of burnout. He left both his job and Dallas, ultimately turning to volunteer work with The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program, where he represented former military service members before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. After more than a year of volunteering, Price joined the National Veterans Legal Services Program as an appellate attorney. It was through pro bono work on behalf of veterans that Price found the sense of purpose he had sought. Now, Price is returning to business litigation, joining Stinson as of counsel with a renewed perspective on the profession and a continued commitment to veterans pro bono work. He also hopes to encourage fellow lawyers to seek out pro bono opportunities that genuinely resonate — something he believes might have helped prevent his own burnout had he done so earlier. 
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  • Latham Makes the Chris Heasley Move Official
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Jack Chadderdon
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Geoffrey Culbertson
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Brian K. Erickson
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Weiru Fang
Elizabeth Freeman
Tad Freese
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Geoff Gannaway
Paul Genender
John J. Gilluly III
Rodney Gilstrap
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Matthew Haddad
Colleen Haile
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Shahmeer Halepota
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Stephen Hessler
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Justin King
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Arthur Lotz
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Jeri Leigh Miller
Kimberly A. Moore
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