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K&L Gates’ Ambassador to Partners and Clients

Craig Budner has represented corporate giants such as Xerox, J.P. Morgan Chase, Hewlett-Packard and VarTec Telecom. He defended Olympic athlete Marion Jones in the BALCO steroids scandal and played a key role in getting Ross Perot on the presidential ballot in all 50 states in 1992.

The Dallas trial lawyer now has a new job: global integration partner at K&L Gates, which has more than 2,000 lawyers in 47 cities worldwide. “I work with lateral partners to make sure they integrate quickly and seamlessly,” he says. “My job is essentially connecting the dots across our platform.”

K&L Gates' Ambassador to Partners and Clients

Craig Budner has represented corporate giants such as Xerox, J.P. Morgan Chase, Hewlett-Packard and VarTec Telecom. He defended Olympic athlete Marion Jones in the BALCO steroids scandal and played a key role in getting Ross Perot on the presidential ballot in all 50 states in 1992.
The Dallas trial lawyer now has a new job: global integration partner at K&L Gates, which has more than 2,000 lawyers in 47 cities worldwide. “I work with lateral partners to make sure they integrate quickly and seamlessly,” he says. “My job is essentially connecting the dots across our platform.”

Norton Rose Fulbright Scores $400 million Litigation Win for Tesoro

If the lawsuits were baseball games, shareholders and their lawyers trying to stop two San Antonio-based oil and gas pipeline and storage companies from merging were blown out in the first inning. Tesoro GC Charles Parrish hired Norton Rose Fulbright partner Gerry Pecht to defeat the securities litigation. He won the case before the first court hearing. Here’s the story how.

Judge Sparks: Patent Expiration Doesn’t Mean Trademarks Do, Too

A Marble Falls maker of machine parts for the oil patch lost a closely watched trademark dispute against a rival firm when a federal judge Austin refused to invalidate the defendant’s trademark protections even thought the company’s patent on the product expired years earlier. Legal experts say Judge Spark’s ruling is one of the clearest and most straightforward court decision to state that judges must consider the validity of trademarks and patents separately, even when they involve the same product.

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