Houston and Dallas business attorneys are more satisfied with the federal judges in their area than they are with state judges, according to new data from the Houston Bar Association and Dallas Bar Association. The two bar associations’ judiciary polls, which come out every two years, rate individual judges based on HBA and DBA members’ satisfaction with their impartiality, preparation for hearings and trial, timely opinions, knowledge of the law and temperament in the courtroom.
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The Sherman Act Lives: 5th Circuit Affirms $150 Million Antitrust Conspiracy Judgment
The federal appeals court decision is a likely landmark in the modern law of antitrust conspiracy. The opinion unhesitatingly applies longstanding rules about “per se” antitrust liability instead of engaging in the more complex economic analysis that has dominated in recent years.
Luminant Pays $1.6 Billion for Two Power Plants
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.
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
A group of North Texas business leaders plan to ask a judge next week to issue an $8 million judgment against Dallas-based Southwest Securities – now HilltopSecurities – and one