Stephen Crain has chaired Bracewell’s litigation section since 2014.
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Locke Lord Austin Managing Partner Named Chair-Elect of Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce Board
C. Brian Cassidy has previously served as the chamber’s general counsel and a member of its Finance and Transportation Committees.
Reed Smith Promotes One to Partner in Houston
Reed Smith’s class of new partners totaled 23 firmwide.
Mayer Brown Lures Houston Financial Institutions and Insurance Litigation Pro
Robert Harrell previously led Norton Rose Fulbright’s U.S. financial institutions and insurance litigation practice.
DBA Launches New DVAP Endowment
DBA President Michael K. Hurst decided to create the DVAP Endowment to help maintain long-term funding to secure legal aid to the poor and guard against future federal and state funding cuts.
Gary Kennedy & ‘Twelve Years of Turbulence’ as American Airlines GC
As the general counsel of American Airlines for a dozen years, Gary Kennedy has some stories to tell. In his new book, Kennedy gives readers unprecedented access to closed-door internal discussions with executives, confidential legal strategy meetings and secret – and many times contentious – negotiations between American officials, its labor unions and executives with US Airways.
Most importantly, Twelve Years of Turbulence provides a provocative insider’s description of the most successful corporate bankruptcy and restructuring in U.S. history.
Hurst and Pettit File Lawsuit for Texas Tech Football Coach Firing Probe
In a lawsuit filed Monday in Lubbock County against Texas Tech University, longtime Houston television reporter-turned communications consultant Wayne Dolcefino seeks the court to issue a declaratory judgment that will require university officials to hand over a series of public records requests Dolcefino filed on behalf of Leach this past fall.
Fifth Circuit Analysis: In Arbitration, What are ‘Actions Seeking Injunctive Relief?’
Arbitration agreements often have carveouts for types of litigation, such as emergency injunction applications to protect intellectual property. Drafted cleanly, such a provision can save valuable time and resources. Drafted loosely, it can cause procedural delay and uncertainty about the proper place to resolve a dispute. The Fifth Circuit has some suggestions.
Dallas Lawyers Think Better of Their Judges than Houston Lawyers (Then Again, Maybe…Or Not)
The Houston Bar Association recently released its biennial survey of lawyer ratings for judges. Dallas released a similar survey last May. Taken at face value, Dallas lawyers are a lot more comfortable with their local judges than Houston lawyers. The problem is you can’t take it at face value. And if you look closely, the results may be reversed. Natalie Posgate explains in The Texas Lawbook.
ACC-DFW/Texas Lawbook 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to Gil Friedlander
For more than 13 years, Gil Friedlander led the EDS legal department. He masterminded some of the largest and most complex corporate transactions in Texas history. He showed that the general counsel was a critical strategic position within the business – not just a lawyer. And he championed diversity within the legal profession long before the cause was popular.
The DFW Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel and The Texas Lawbook named Friedlander the first ever Outstanding Corporate Counsel Lifetime Achievement Award.