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For most Texas-based M&A lawyers, 2016 was not in line with one of Charles Dickens’ most famous lines: it was neither the best of times nor the worst of times for corporate transactional work. But some changes occurred among the law firm leaderboard.
New data from The Texas Lawbook’s Corporate Deal Tracker reveals which firms stayed at the very top for handling the most M&A work in 2016 and which firms got booted out of the top by others. This report provides a full analysis on the new rankings and insights from firm leaders for how deal flow is looking in 2017.

A federal jury in Marshall on Friday ordered Motorola Mobility to pay $9.17 million for deliberately infringing on a small Plano-based licensing firm’s patents for technology that helps create high-definition voice for cell phones. The win is the latest for Saint Lawrence Communications in patent fights in the U.S. and Germany against seven of the world’s largest cell-phone makers.

Houston-based Humble Surgical Hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday, three weeks after U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes entered a multi-million judgment against the specialty, five-bed hospital.

Six deans from Texas law schools have signed a letter to leaders of Congress asking that they “maintain funding for the Legal Services Corporation” during the upcoming federal budgeting process.

The class action lawsuit alleged that the Dallas luxury retailer suffered a data breach that spanned six months and exposed payment information for 350,000 shoppers.

Plaintiffs have also hailed the lawsuit as a victory for securing customer payment information.