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Lamar Hunt Private Equity Firm is Betting More Lawyers Will Outsource Trial Work

Dallas private equity firm Trinity Hunt Partners, which is sponsored by the Lamar Hunt family, is betting on a growing trend of lawyers outsourcing part of their grueling trial work to outside specialists.

November 30, 2017 Jon Prior of the Dallas Business Journal

Halliburton GC Robb Voyles: Four years of Extraordinary Challenges, Successes

HOUSTON (Nov. 30) – Since becoming the GC of Halliburton in 2014, Robb Voyles has successfully guided the oilfield services giant through treacherous legal waters that included a mountain of lawsuits with billions of dollars at stake related to the Deepwater Horizon deadly explosion, a global securities class action lawsuit, a nine-figure tax dispute with its former KBR subsidiary and a $28 billion merger with Baker Hughes that went bad.

In this exclusive interview with The Texas Lawbook, Voyles looks back at the last four years and discusses his wins, losses and the reason the Texas GC Forum recognized him in November for his accomplishments.

November 30, 2017 Mark Curriden

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November 29, 2017 Mark Curriden

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November 29, 2017 Mark Curriden

Pinkston Program Shows Students Many Sides of the Law

Students from a West Dallas high school are seeing a side of the law they might never have known existed were it not for a group of dedicated lawyers at two Texas firms. The program, aimed to expand the horizons of at-risk students shows them that the law involves more than traffic court and that there are a multitude of ways they can forge a career path. Natalie Posgate has details on this remarkable program.

November 29, 2017 Natalie Posgate

Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 8 Firms, 76 Lawyers, 7 Transactions, $3.85B and One Busy Steve Gill

A large oil and gas merger and some good-sized asset deals kept activity chugging during Thanksgiving Week, with seven deals announced worth $3.85 billion, versus eight transactions valued at $11.05 billion the previous week. Eight law firms and 76 Texas lawyers were involved, compared with nine firms and 62 Texas attorneys the previous week. The Texas Lawbook has the names and the numbers behind the numbers.

November 28, 2017 Claire Poole

House Bill Proposes Big Changes to Personal and Corporate Taxes

After years of blueprints, frameworks and speeches, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee recently released the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a bill that attempts – for the first time in 30 years – a complete overhaul of the Internal Revenue Code. The bill, which undergoes markup this week, proposes major changes to individual, corporate, pass-through and international tax provisions. This article provides the detailed specifics every Texas GC and CEO needs to know about the new tax bill.

November 27, 2017 Mark Curriden

Feds Drop Charges Against Ex-Marine in Seizure-Inducing Tweet

Federal prosecutors in Dallas have dismissed the criminal case against John Rayne Rivello, a former U.S. Marine who allegedly sent a seizure-inducing Twitter message to a Newsweek journalist who published negative articles about then President-elect Donald Trump. Defense attorney David Gerger told The Texas Lawbook in an exclusive interview that the federal charges simply did not meet the facts alleged.

November 27, 2017 Mark Curriden

Trump Making Mark in Texas Federal Judiciary

Eleven federal courtrooms in Texas have sat empty for years amid political wrangling, including a judgeship in Corpus Christi that has been vacant since 2011. Texas also has two appeals court seats empty since 2012 and 2013. The Trump administration has been moving swiftly to fill these Texas vacancies, which could end up being his most enduring legacy.

November 27, 2017 Mark Curriden

V&E, Akin Gump Advise on Talos’ $1.9B Hookup with Stone

Leaders at Tacos Energy and Stone Energy say their combination will create a top offshore-focused exploration and production company with an initial equity market capitalization of $1.9 billion and an enterprise value of $2.5 billion. 

November 21, 2017 Claire Poole

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  • P.S. — Dallas Lawyers Launch Nonprofit to Keep Kids in Competitive Soccer  - When Sarita Prabhu and Jacque Kruppa first enrolled their sons in recreational soccer, it cost about $80. 

    But as the boys advanced into more competitive leagues, the price tag climbed to upwards of $5,000. 

    They saw other kids drop out because their families could not keep up with the rising costs. 

    Prabhu, managing vice president and legal counsel at Gartner, and Kruppa, a partner and transactional lawyer at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, occasionally made donations to their nonprofit soccer club to bridge the gap. But they also began thinking about how they could make a broader impact after seeing the value soccer provided their kids beyond the field – leadership, teamwork, strategy, grit and exposure to diverse groups of kids. 

    The result was Dallas Soccer Scholars, which launched in July, obtained 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status in January, and has accepted 12 scholars into the program. Additional applications are pending for the 2026-2027 season. The organization has also sponsored two soccer tournament teams to ease travel costs.

    That and more in this edition of P.S.
    May 29, 2026Krista Torralva
  • Phillips 66’s Vanessa Sutherland & Michael Voutsinas — The New World of Legal Operations - Energy company legal departments have a lot on their agendas in 2026, including ever-changing tariffs, turmoil in the Middle East, constant reversals in federal regulatory schemes, threats of cybersecurity and intellectual property theft and constantly rising hourly rates from outside counsel. As companies struggle to manage or keep up, Phillips 66 GC Vanessa Sutherland and Legal Ops Director Michael Voutsinas have taken a different approach: It has dramatically upgraded its entire legal operations team that deals with effective financial management of legal work, employee performance management, technology adoption and usage, outside vendor management, information governance, e-discovery and data analytics to optimize legal services delivery. The reforms have resulted in several internal and external successes.

    "It has become more critical for staff functions to be both a good corporate steward of capital and a partner that generates value,” Sutherland said. ACC Houston and The Texas Lawbook have named Phillips 66 as the recipients of the 2026 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for Legal Innovation.
    May 27, 2026Mark Curriden

GCs, Lawyers & Firms

  • Catching Up with Kelly Rentzel as In-house Veteran Joins Bradley’s Dallas Office - Bradley continues to expand its presence in Dallas by hiring Kelly Rentzel as counsel in the firm's banking & financial services practice group. A financial services in-house veteran, she brings rare firsthand experience managing internal legal operations, capital markets transactions and complex M&A.

    The Texas Lawbook caught up with Rentzel about her move to Bradley, the trends she’s seeing and more.
  • Haynes Boone Associates Get a Trial Run
  • Winston & Strawn Adds Former Baker Botts Partner to Its IP Roster
  • Houston Maritime Litigation Partner Moves to SBSB
  • Houston Employee Benefits Partner Returns to Norton Rose
  • Dallas Regulatory Partner Moves from Haynes Boone to Holland & Knight 
  • Dallas SALT Partners, Senior Counsel Lateral to Holland & Knight 
  • Hello, Larry: Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s New Managing Shareholder Seeks Strategic Growth
  • Houston Commercial Litigation Partner Moves from Kirkland & Ellis to Latham & Watkins
  • Buffey Klein Takes Her BR Practice to Blank Rome
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Tyler Bexley
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Michael Blankenship
Jeffrey Brill
Anita Brown
Ian Brown
Stuart Campbell
Jack Chadderdon
Paul Clement
Erin Nealy Cox
Scott Craig
Kevin Crews
Shamus Crosby
Hannah M. Crowe
Geoffrey Culbertson
Sean Cunningham
John Daywalt
Rajiv Dharnidharka
James Ducayet
Brian K. Erickson
Scott Everett
Weiru Fang
Elizabeth Freeman
Tad Freese
Melanie Fry
Geoff Gannaway
Paul Genender
John J. Gilluly III
Rodney Gilstrap
Andrew Gorham
John Greer
Joseph Grinstein
Matthew Haddad
Colleen Haile
Breen Haire
Shahmeer Halepota
Dionne Hamilton
Troy Harder
Rusty Hardin
Michael Hawes
Nathan Hecht
Stephen Hessler
Hillary Holmes
Marc Jaffe
Lauren Jenkins
David Jones
Atma Kabad
Susan Kennedy
David Kinder
Justin King
Allan Kirk
Melanie Koltermann
Doug Kubehl
Joe Laurel
Sang Lee
Steven Lockhart
Arthur Lotz
Barbara Lynn
Mike Lynn
Nora McGuffey
Stephanie McPhail
Mark Melton
Jeri Leigh Miller
Kimberly A. Moore
Mark Moore
Shelby Morgan
Alia Moses
Davis Mosmeyer III
Darren Nicholson
Eamon Nolan
Ivy Nowinski
Holland O’Neil
George Padis
Ian Peck
Jonathan Platt
Chase Proctor
Doug Rayburn
Joel Reese
Kevin Richardson
Andrew Rodheim
Seth Rubinson
Mazin Sbaiti
Ana Sanchez
Vincenzo Santini
Jeffrey Scharfstein
Robert Schroeder III
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Ahmed Sidik
Robert Slovak
Emily Smith
Melissa R. Smith
Jonathon Soler
Robert Soza
Lande Spottswood
Craig Stanfield
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Monica Uddin
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Kandace Walter
Kyle Watson
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Noël Wise
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Lynn Pinker
Mayer Brown
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Porter Hedges
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