McGill will spend her “Fellow” year building relationships, participating in in-person training and peer-group projects and maintaining contact with LCLD’s leadership.
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Schneider will lead talent acquisition efforts at all levels for Winstead’s seven offices nationwide.
Quan Law Group Promotes Angelique Montano to Partner
Montano represents corporate clients and individuals in employment and family-based immigration matters, including court proceedings, analysis of immigration consequences of crimes and achieving employer compliance.
T&K Announces 2016 Management Committee
Mark Sloan, the recently-elected managing partner, will lead the nine-member committee.
T&K Announces 2016 Management Committee
Mark Sloan, the recently-elected managing partner, will lead the nine-member committee.
A Glimmer of Hope for the Energy Industry? Navigating Your Way Out of the Overtime Abyss
It is no secret that the energy industry has been ravaged. If $30-per-barrel oil was not bad enough, KRCL Directors AJ Johnson and Robert Rickman say energy companies have another woe to add to the list – opportunistic plaintiff’s attorneys that have focused their crosshairs squarely on oilfield pay practices.
The exposure can be colossal, bu Johnson and Rickman say there are some powerful arrows that oil and gas companies can put in their quivers to combat the slew of lawsuits being filed.
Texas Law Firms Exporting their M&A Expertise
M&A data shows that large Texas-based law firms hemorrhaged talent and long-time, local clients to elite national firms that set up new outposts in Dallas and Houston during the past six years. The same data also indicates that some of the legacy Texas firms – Akin Gump, Baker Botts, Bracewell and V&E – are increasingly exporting their expertise in oil and gas law to energy companies and private equity firms headquartered beyond the state’s borders.
“The Texas legal market is maturing before our eyes,” says law firm consultant Ward Bower.
Texas Law Firms Exporting their M&A Expertise
M&A data shows that large Texas-based law firms hemorrhaged talent and long-time, local clients to elite national firms that set up new outposts in Dallas and Houston during the past six years. The same data also indicates that some of the legacy Texas firms – Akin Gump, Baker Botts, Bracewell and V&E – are increasingly exporting their expertise in oil and gas law to energy companies and private equity firms headquartered beyond the state’s borders.
“The Texas legal market is maturing before our eyes,” says law firm consultant Ward Bower.
Texas Supreme Court to Decide ‘Fair Report Privilege’ in Closely Watched Libel Case
Major news organizations want the Supreme Court of Texas to maintain strong libel defense protections for journalists who report on government investigations. The media outlets, including The Dallas Morning News and the Houston Chronicle, say journalists should be able to report on factual information obtained from government reports or official proceedings without fear of being sued for failure to include information not contained in the report and unknown to them.
Congress, Not Courts, Should Decide Apple Case
AT&T filed a “friend of the court” brief asking a California federal judge the court to vacate its order requiring Apple take extraordinary steps to assist the FBI in unlocking the iPhone used by one of the perpetrators of the San Bernardino shootings. In this case, the government seeks more than what can be supported under the law as it is written today. The solution is for Congress to pass new legislation that provides real clarity for citizens and companies alike.