Exxon Mobil General Counsel Jack Balagia has announced he is officially retiring as the Irving-based oil and gas giant’s top lawyer in three weeks. Balagia, who has been with Exxon Mobil for 18 years, says current assistant general counsel Randall Ebner will succeed him as the company’s chief legal officer.
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The Texas Supreme Court is revisiting the high-profile issue of when pipelines are common carriers allowed to condemn private property. Once again the dispute involves the Denbury Green Pipeline that transports carbon dioxide through southeast Texas.
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The trademark legal battle being fought by the Asian-American band named “The Slants” has entered a new arena. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear The Slants case and make a decision that will answer the question: does the government have the right to reject registration of disparaging trademarks?
Free Speech vs. Offensive Trademarks: Implications of the Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear Lee v. Tam
The trademark legal battle being fought by the Asian-American band named “The Slants” has entered a new arena. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear The Slants case and make a decision that will answer the question: does the government have the right to reject registration of disparaging trademarks?
Free Speech vs. Offensive Trademarks: Implications of the Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear Lee v. Tam
The trademark legal battle being fought by the Asian-American band named “The Slants” has entered a new arena. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear The Slants case and make a decision that will answer the question: does the government have the right to reject registration of disparaging trademarks?
Ten Things GCs Need to Know: How to Create a Great Legal Dept. Website
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.
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.