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Schiff Hardin Picks Up Dallas Labor and Employment Expert Tracey Wallace
Wallace, a SMU Dedman School of Law graduate, was previously at Jackson Walker.
V&E Partner Tom Wilson to Chair Human Rights Committee
The newly-created committee will study and recommend guidance concerning legal and ethical issues that attorneys and international businesses face when possible human rights violations are discovered.
V&E Partner Tom Wilson to Chair Human Rights Committee
The newly-created committee will study and recommend guidance concerning legal and ethical issues that attorneys and international businesses face when possible human rights violations are discovered.
Chesapeake Settles with Bass and Other Barnett Shale Royalty Owners
Lawyers for Chesapeake Energy likely spent Labor Day laboring over a confidential settlement reached Tuesday morning for a case against Fort Worth billionaire Ed Bass and other disgruntled royalty owners. It was set to go to trial Tuesday.
Faith & Perseverance Helped Sidley Partner Close His Biggest and Most Important International Deal
Cliff Vrielink has represented some of the world’s leading energy companies in highly complex international transactions valued in the billions of dollars. But for four years, Vrielink and his wife tried to adopt two children from Haiti. A legal process that should have taken weeks became years. The couple took a dozen trips to Haiti. They hired lawyers in Haiti and sought help from U.S. officials in New York. Nothing they did helped or mattered.
“I’ve done multi-billion-dollar global mergers and acquisitions involving multiple corporations and assets in multiple countries that were simpler than the adoption process we faced,” said Vrielink, a 20-year veteran of international M&A law.
This is the story of Cliff and Ayse Vrielink’s efforts to adopt a boy and a girl from Haiti and why an antiquated international adoption system must be fixed.
Faith & Perseverance Helped Sidley Partner Close His Biggest and Most Important International Deal
Cliff Vrielink has represented some of the world’s leading energy companies in highly complex international transactions valued in the billions of dollars. But for four years, Vrielink and his wife tried to adopt two children from Haiti. A legal process that should have taken weeks became years. The couple took a dozen trips to Haiti. They hired lawyers in Haiti and sought help from U.S. officials in New York. Nothing they did helped or mattered.
“I’ve done multi-billion-dollar global mergers and acquisitions involving multiple corporations and assets in multiple countries that were simpler than the adoption process we faced,” said Vrielink, a 20-year veteran of international M&A law.
This is the story of Cliff and Ayse Vrielink’s efforts to adopt a boy and a girl from Haiti and why an antiquated international adoption system must be fixed.
Texas Supreme Court Hears Bill Brewer Disqualification Case
A long and expensive dispute over whether Dallas trial lawyer Bill Brewer should be disqualified from a $60 million international lawsuit because his law firm and its Chilean co-counsel hired a former executive from the opposing side reached the state’s highest court last week. Former Texas justice Harriet O’Neill and appellate specialists Nina Cortell squared off on whether the defendant’s former CFO is a whistleblowing fact witness or a side-switching paralegal whose actions triggered disqualification.
NLRB’s New Joint Employer Standard Raises New Considerations for Business
In a sweeping decision overturning 30 years of precedent defining the joint employer relationship, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently handed unions a major victory, one that could force companies to reevaluate their use of temporary or contract workers and other contractual arrangements such as franchise agreements. This is a critical issue for business.
Gray Reed & McGraw Celebrates 30-Year Anniversary
Three decades later after launching in a brutal recession, the law firm has more than 120 lawyers with offices in Houston and Dallas and is among the 20 largest law firms in Texas.