The Dallas office of Fisher Phillips continues to grow with the hiring of Amanda Brown as partner from Reed Smith and Lauren McDonald from Tenet Healthcare. The labor and employment law firm’s Dallas office tripled in size in 2024.
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CDT Roundup: 9 Deals, 12 Firms, 80 Lawyers, $6.8B
With a new year upon us, it’s a time for reflection and evaluation. You know what we mean: numbers. Here at the CDT Roundup, in case you haven’t noticed, we believe in numbers. We worship numbers. Even our headlines are numbers — with just enough words to let you know what we are counting: “Deals, Firms, Lawyers, Money.” But we also keep track of the numbers we write about.
How Texas M&A Lawyers Are Preparing for 2025
Now that the new year is here, many Texas M&A lawyers are preparing for potential developments in the upcoming year and identifying their focus areas. Many law firms are optimistic about the deal space in 2025, anticipating increased activity; however, they also plan to closely monitor how the new presidential administration may affect deals and their clients.
Biggest Texas Verdicts of 2024
Juries in the Eastern District of Texas handed out the largest and second-largest awards of the year and five of the Top 10. But no jury in the state cracked the $1 billion damages award threshold in a single case in 2024.
Clyde & Co. to Merge with Dallas’ Tillman Batchelor
Clyde & Co., a global law firm based in the UK, announced on Jan. 2 that it is expanding into the Texas legal market by merging with Dallas’ Tillman Batchelor, an insurance litigation-focused firm.
Keurig Dr Pepper, Taxwell Finalists for 2024 DFW Corporate Legal Department of the Year
The Association of Corporate Counsel’s DFW Chapter and The Texas Lawbook have created a new award category for the 2024 DFW Corporate Counsel Awards. The DFW Corporate Legal Department of the Year honor recognizes in-house working as a team to achieve extraordinary success. This year, two corporate legal departments stood out from all the rest.
“We’ve honored GCs of the Year, Senior Counsels of the Year, Business Litigation and M&A Deal of the Year, but we realized that there are situations where corporate legal departments may have major initiatives on multiple fronts or facing a significant crisis while also dealing with major transitions within their companies,” said Texas Lawbook publisher Brooks Igo. “We needed an award that looked at the bigger picture by examining all the different challenges.”
Fort Worth Boutique Firms Merge
Vartabedian Hester & Haynes and Forshey Prostok are ringing in the new year by adding expanded services for their clients through the combination.
Top 10 Texas Legal News for 2024
Judge-shopping claims, a surrogacy scam, and the opening of the Texas business courts were among the Androvett Legal Media team’s top five legal stories in Texas for 2024. But they didn’t top the list.
Lawyers, Guns and Money: An occasional series on movies, TV and other stories about lawyers and the law — Juror #2 (2024, Dir. Clint Eastwood)
A man is picked for jury duty. He seems like a solid enough fellow, maybe a little melancholy, and more handsome than most, because he’s played by Nicholas Hoult, whose eyes are an almost impossibly bright shade of blue. He shows up the first day of the trial and a look of panic plays out across his face. It seems he might have done something in his past that could have direct bearing on whether or not the defendant is found guilty. If he comes forward, he might end up behind bars himself.
SCOTX: Cities Not Liable for Cop Car Crash Injuries
Rulings in the two latest cases and a third decided in May set up a demanding standard for when police officers can be sued over injuries and deaths caused while pursuing suspects or responding to calls for help. Although the circumstances varied, the court said none of the cases met the emergency exception to governmental immunity.