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Baker Botts to Receive Award from Houston Bar Foundation
The firm will receive the award for Outstanding Large Firm Contributions to the Houston Volunteer Lawyers organization for 2016 at the Houston Bar Foundation’s annual meeting tomorrow.
Littler Adds Privacy and Data Protection Expert to Dallas Office
Gary Clayton is the former senior director of privacy programs at ADP.
Dykema Cox Smith Associate Elected to Board of Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley
Long is a McAllen-based associate in the firm’s financial services litigation practice group.
Sayles Werbner Promotes Sawyer Neely to Partner
Neely represents both plaintiffs and defendants in personal and business disputes involving direct and derivative shareholder claims, securities claims, trade secret and copyright battles, catastrophic personal injury and various complex business and tort cases.
Texans Sues Safari for Missing Rhino Horns
A Houston businessman who spent more than $250,000 on a safari in Africa has sued the South African operator for failing to deliver two horns from the white rhinoceros he bagged. Kevin Poynter, president of Poynter Commercial Properties in Houston, says in a Harris Co. lawsuit that he put his trust in Limcroma Safaris to ship the horns back to Houston, as promised, but is still waiting, more than a year after the trip in August and September of 2015. The Houston Chronicle has all the details.
Chief Judge Barbara Lynn Brings Patience, Order and Blind Justice to John Wiley Price Trial
This week, hundreds of North Texans report to jury service in the public corruption trial of Dallas Co. Commissioner John Wiley Price. The trial is considered one of the most important and controversial of a governmental official in Dallas history. Race, religion and politics are significant factors. Legal experts say that U.S. Chief District Judge Barbara Lynn is the perfect judge for the case.
“This trial has all the elements of a case that could turn into a circus,” says legal ethics expert Randy Johnston. “There are a few judges who could keep this trial from getting out of control, but none of them could do it with more grace and dignity.”
Dallas Fed Names David Teeples as VP and Deputy General Counsel
Teeples was previosly in private practice at the Dallas office of Squire Patton Boggs.
SMU Dedman School of Law Renames Moot Court Competition
The Howie & Sweeney Moot Court Competition has been renamed the Lynn Pinker Cox & Hurst Moot Court Competition.
Latham, V&E Advise on Gastar’s $425M Capital Financing
Houston E&P company Gastar Exploration said Friday that it has secured $425 million in new financing from funds managed by affiliates of Ares Management, a Los Angeles-based investment firm.