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Jones Day represented Ajinomoto and Baker Botts represented Windsor, a private Houston-based manufacturer of ethnic frozen foods in the U.S. that owns brands including José Olé, Ling Ling and Tai Pei.

The jury found the tire company negligent for allowing continued exposure of asbestos fibers to its former employee, Carl Rogers, who passed away in 2009 from mesothelioma as a result.

The fees award follows two years of litigation in which Sierra Club claimed Luminant’s Big Brown power plant violated the Clean Air Act.

The SEC claims Robare Group Ltd. failed to disclose a conflict of interest to its clients when it recommended they invest in particular mutual funds and in turn received compensation from the broker that was selling the funds.

A deeply divided Texas Supreme Court ruled that Zachry Construction Corp. can seek damages from the Port of Houston Authority for project delays despite a “no-damages-for-delay” contract provision.

The divorce trial of Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm and his wife, Sue Ann, may be the largest divorce case in U.S. history. At stake is nearly $17 billion. She’s asking for up to $6 billion. “The question is, will Mrs. Hamm come out of this trial filthy rich or filthy, filthy, filthy rich?” says Dallas family lawyer Charlie Hodges.

But the Hamm divorce raises the issue of when should a company such as Continental should publicly disclose when its top executive and majority shareholder is getting a divorce.