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Thousands of people are helped each year by DVAP, but many more go without legal advice and representation because there are not enough lawyers stepping up to help. Corporate law departments, including AT&T and EFH, are in a unique position to significantly impact legal aid to the poor in Dallas. While lawyers as a whole hold the keys to the courthouse doors, corporate legal departments set the stage for what is important to our legal community. If pro bono legal aid to the poor is important to local in-house lawyers, pro bono legal aid to the poor will be important to the business lawyers in our legal community as well.

Hope Shimabuku grew up 15 minutes from the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Her mother worked for NASA on the Apollo program. Her father was an oil and gas engineer. After college, Shimabuku worked as an engineer at Dell. On Monday, she becomes the first director of the new Dallas office of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Shimabuku, a former lawyer for Blackberry and Xerox, has big challenges ahead. The Texas Lawbook has the full profile.

Joseph D. Jamail Jr. was arguably the most famous and successful trial lawyer in history.

A Rockwall jury recently ruled that a local human resources outsourcing company breached its contract with Central Freight Lines to provide workers’ compensation insurance and claims administration services.

In a 255-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack ruled that the state is currently violating foster children’s constitutional rights by not protecting them from an unreasonable risk of harm.

A group led by Mexican businessman Gabriel Brener has purchased Houston’s soccer team, the Houston Dynamo, the women’s team, the Houston Dash and the BBVA Compass Stadium in downtown Houston.

Thompson & Knight, Locke Lord, Paul Hastings, Latham & Watkins, Vinson & Elkins and Weil, Gotshal & Manges advised the companies involved in a series of exit deals that EnCap Investments struck with Devon Energy and affiliates involving core assets this week that added up to $4.8 billion in value.

Charleston, S.C.-based Greystar Real Estate Partners said Tuesday that an affiliate would sell a 32-property, 10,399-unit multifamily portfolio to the real estate outfit of The Blackstone Group for $2 billion.