Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
It sucks being a cost center. General counsel can argue all day about the value the legal department is adding to the company, but it is still a cost center to the business. If executives see Legal as just a cost center, it could feel the budget axe when times get tough.
This edition of “Ten Things” discusses basic and straight-forward ways you can “market” the legal department to the business in order to help them understand what the department does and the value it brings to the company.
The new office will focus on serving technology clients, entrepreneurs and startups.
Pothier served in the same role with the San Diego Padres from 2002-2010.
Pothier served in the same role with the San Diego Padres from 2002-2010.
Detroit-based DTE Energy said Monday that it will purchase 100 percent of the Appalachia Gathering System and 55 percent of Stonewall Gas Gathering from two Houston companies, M3 Midstream and Vega Energy Partners, for $1.3 billion.
Detroit-based DTE Energy said Monday that it will purchase 100 percent of the Appalachia Gathering System and 55 percent of Stonewall Gas Gathering from two Houston companies, M3 Midstream and Vega Energy Partners, for $1.3 billion.
A federal appears court hears oral arguments Tuesday in three consolidated challenges to President Obama’s signature climate regulation, which is known as the Clean Power Plan. Twenty-eight states, including Texas, and 124 businesses and industry groups are challenging the legality of the CPP, which is the most far-reaching regulatory program ever promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
There are three arguments that are notable for their scope, novelty, and potential impact on the future of the Clean Power Plan, as well as their ramifications for future EPA regulation under the Clean Air Act. This article has the details.
Latham, V&E and Akin Gump are all on Monday’s megadeal: Rice Energy’s $2.7 billion purchase of Vantage Energy.
Texas Monthly reporter Michael Hall took home the grand prize.
Coppell Independent School District’s election system discriminates against the area’s largest ethnic group by preventing proper representation on the school board, a lawsuit filed Thursday in Dallas federal court alleges.
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