The power generating affiliate of Dallas-based Energy Future Holdings is acquiring two Northeast Texas power plants from NextEra, a Florida energy company. EFH Deputy GC Andrew Wright and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner Rob Little in Dallas.
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Kent Sullivan & Sean Jordan Jump to Jackson Walker
Jackson Walker significantly beefed up its appellate law practice this week when it announced that a former state appellate court judge and a former deputy solicitor general have joined the firm’s Austin office as partners. Kent Sullivan and Sean Jordan are the new co-leaders of the Dallas-based law firm’s appellate law section.
Kent Sullivan & Sean Jordan Jump to Jackson Walker
Jackson Walker significantly beefed up its appellate law practice this week when it announced that a former state appellate court judge and a former deputy solicitor general have joined the firm’s Austin office as partners. Kent Sullivan and Sean Jordan are the new co-leaders of the Dallas-based law firm’s appellate law section.
Burleson Law Firm to Shut Doors
The oil and gas turbulence has claimed its first victim in the legal industry. Richard Burleson announced today that the firm he started a decade ago will close down all of its operations at the end of the year.
Lawyers Go ‘Over the Edge’ for Special Olympics
Even the Super Heroes du jour heeded the advice: Don’t look down. That’s concrete below. Danger, dizziness and acrophobia aside, 20 lawyers and staff in the Houston and Dallas offices of Norton Rose Fulbright recently rappelled “Over the Edge” of local buildings, raising more than $36,000 to benefit Special Olympics Texas. At the request of The Texas Lawbook, they wore helmut cams.
Judge Awards Dallas Medical Products Company $9.6 Million
A federal judge in Dallas Monday awarded $9.6 million to Flower Mound-based ThermoTek Inc. after a jury late last week determined that a competitor fraudulently obtained the medical products manufacturer’s business information for a series of physical therapy machines.
Exclusive: GC Forum’s Magna Stella Awards Go to…
Hewlett Packard, Tenet Healthcare, The Howard Hughes Corp. and Kinder Morgan were the corporate legal department winners at the General Counsel Forum annual meeting in San Antonio this week. The individual GCs honored were MetroPCS ‘s Chris Luna, Prophet Equity’s David Rex, Silicon Lab’s Nestor Ho, ABM Industries’ Lanesha Anderson and Texas A&M’s Ray Bonilla.
The Texas Lawbook has exclusive coverage of the GC Forum meeting.
Reese Gordon Marketos Scores $5.5 Million Against Southwest Securities
© 2015 The Texas Lawbook. By Natalie Posgate (Nov. 20) – A group of North Texas business leaders plan to ask a judge next week to issue an $8 million
Forth Worth Lawyer Steve Laird Named H.G. Wells Outstanding Trial Lawyer by TCTLA
The award is given to a practicing lawyer who has exhibited a career commitment to high ethical standards, exceptional professional conduct, trial advocacy skill and legal accomplishments.
Baker Botts, Oldest Law Firm in Texas, Turns 175
In a world where the life expectancy of a Fortune 500 company is now 15 years, the story of Baker Botts is extraordinary. The law firm survived the Civil War, the Great Depression and two world wars. One founding partner wrote the first rules of civil procedure in Texas. Another partner solved the murder of William Marsh Rice in 1900, which led to the creation of Rice University.
Half of its lawyers were drafted in 1942 to fight in WWII. The firm has represented two clients continuously for more than a century. Baker Botts celebrates its 175th anniversary Thursday night. If you thought you knew the lawyers at Baker Botts, this article will change your mind.