Corporate legal department can use internal websites to market their services to their business and provide useful information and materials to the workforce. It also allows company employees to find answers and documents on their own without having to directly utilize the time of the in-house legal team. This edition of “Ten Things” discusses some practical things you can do to create (or improve) your Legal Department website.
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Cross-Examination: From Courtroom to Stage to History Book
Eighteen months ago, I began searching for my “One Big Thing,” a project that fully used my experiences, talents and passions. I decided it was to be a proactive force for the study, discussion and advancement of presidential history. The commitment culminated in my latest book.
Channeling my inner Perry Mason, I sought answers to questions to find out the closest thing to the truth that can be known from our top minds about our most significant presidents. In this article, I detail the circumstances of how I was able to pull off 23 interviews with 10 of our nation’s preeminent presidential biographers and insiders and share a few of the questions I asked them.
Talmage Boston – Lawyer, Historian, Baseball Fan, Writer – Cross-Examines History
Talmage Boston is living the dream of many lawyers. He’s a partner at a large corporate law firm. He has authored four books. And he has Henry Kissinger, Ken Burns and David McCullough in his Rolodex.
Boston’s newest book, Cross Examining History: A Lawyer Gets Answers From the Experts About Our Presidents, combines the 63-year-old’s expertise in questioning witnesses in the courtroom with his passion for presidential history.
The Texas Lawbook has exclusive video of Boston discussing his love of baseball cards, his big victories in court and the details of his new book and the journey he took in writing it.
Exclusive: General Counsel Forum Honors Hunt GC David Hernandez for Ethics
Dallas billionaire Ray L. Hunt told 300 business lawyers Tuesday night attending the General Counsel Forum’s annual Robert H. Dedman Award for Ethics and Law that he’s not a lawyer and has “no clue what general counsel do, but I know that you could not have picked a better person [to honor] than David Hernandez.” In an exclusive interview with The Texas Lawbook, Hernandez discusses his career, his worries about the legal profession and the reasons he became a lawyer. Plus, we have photos from the GC Forum gala.
V&E Works on Finance Company Acquisition
Funds affiliated with private equity giant Warburg Pincus said Tuesday that they have agreed to purchase Kingwood, Texas-based Ascentium Capital, the third largest private-independent equipment finance company in the U.S, for $1.1 billion.
V&E Works on Finance Company Acquisition
Funds affiliated with private equity giant Warburg Pincus said Tuesday that they have agreed to purchase Kingwood, Texas-based Ascentium Capital, the third largest private-independent equipment finance company in the U.S, for $1.1 billion.
Fifth Circuit Opens Door to More RICO Class Actions
Plaintiffs seeking class action status in federal civil racketeering lawsuits in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi involving pyramid scheme saw their path to victory in the courtroom get significantly easier this weekend. In an 11—5 en banc decision, the Fifth ruled that a trial judge in Houston was correct when he granted class action status to alleged victims in a lawsuit against a multilevel marketing unit of utility provider Stream Energy. Legal experts say the signals a major shift by the appeals court.
Weary Travelers Take Heart: There are More Alternative Travel Options than Ever
Business lawyers in Texas are finding there are more alternative travel options than ever.
Wylys Seek Global Settlement Agreement with Federal Gov’t
Dallas business entrepreneur and philanthropist Samuel Wyly and his family are in negotiations with federal officials to resolve claims that the Wylys hid from tax collectors more than $1 billion in income in offshore trusts in the Isle of Man and the Cayman Islands. The SEC announced late Friday that Wyly agreed to pay $198 million to end the agency’s financial fraud case against the 83-year-old. Now, lawyers for the Wylys are in negotiations to settle separate, even larger claims with the IRS.
Andrews Kurth Lures GC of International Oil & Gas Company to Houston Office
Christopher Richardson was most recently the general counsel of Mubadala Petroleum, a multi-billion dollar international oil and gas company owned by the Abu Dhabi government.